Are these Amphipods eating my zoas?

[Chrisv.]

What really hurts is that -I- am 100% responsible for those #$%^ing dinos. ;Meh

OOooo I would love to have a possum wrasse! Have fun getting one!

Yeah they can be tricky to get ahold of. My lfs guy claims he can special order one for me but they sure have gone up in price. >$100 for a cryptic wrasse I will never see that is mostly brown lol

 

[Aqua Man]

Taste the rainbow

Like skittles!! Must be tasty!! So what is it that seems to be bothering mine? Small colony of Gatorades gone in a few days! Last couple nights I’ve been trying to find the culprit because IT has moved onto another colony. Tank, 20 gallon long Only 1 fish, yellow tail Damsel. CUC, snails...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[MONTANTK]

God that would annoy me to no end! Have you found any useful amphipod control fish? I guess not given this thread.

Oh don’t get me wrong I love the fish! It was actually very good at eating flatworms in my other tank. Leopard wrasses are pretty good at amphipod control and probably melanarus but those are too big for my current tank

 

[Chrisv.]

Taste the rainbow

Like skittles!! Must be tasty!! So what is it that seems to be bothering mine? Small colony of Gatorades gone in a few days! Last couple nights I’ve been trying to find the culprit because IT has moved onto another colony. Tank, 20 gallon long Only 1 fish, yellow tail Damsel. CUC, snails...

www.reef2reef.com

This thread bummed me out so much. The number of armchair marine biologists insisting that amphipods could never be eating coral... How lame. The same tang-police-types following a different script as if it were a holy text that they needed to recite in unison, rather than letting observations guide their understanding.

Ok. Rant over.

 

[MONTANTK]

This thread bummed me out so much. The number of armchair marine biologists insisting that amphipods could never be eating coral... How lame. The same tang-police-types following a different script as if it were a holy text that they needed to recite in unison, rather than letting observations guide their understanding.

Ok. Rant over.

I was quite surprised to find out that they can eat zoas. After last night though I’m very convinced it happens

 

[Aqua Man]

I was quite surprised to find out that they can eat zoas. After last night though I’m very convinced it happens

I was looking up pictures of spiders and nudibranchs, because “ pods don’t eat Zoas!!” Lol

After the dip and adding the wrasse, Zoa are back to growing again.

 

[MONTANTK]

I was looking up pictures of spiders and nudibranchs, because “ pods don’t eat Zoas!!” Lol

After the dip and adding the wrasse, Zoa are back to growing again.

Did you dip the frags or the whole rock they were on?

 

[Chrisv.]

I was quite surprised to find out that they can eat zoas. After last night though I’m very convinced it happens

100%

 

[Aqua Man]

Did you dip the frags or the whole rock they were on?

The whole rock was dipped in coral RX per instructions.

 

[Chrisv.]

The whole rock was dipped in coral RX per instructions.

Beautiful rock!

 

[over0066]

oops