copepod and amphipod control for a pico tank

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Can someone suggests some possible inverts I can place in 3.5 pico that eat these guys? the pico is relatively new and the population of copepods and amphipods is getting rather high. They keep crawling all over my zoas and making them close, I'm also I'm afraid as the populations grow and their food source runs low they'll go after the zoas.
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Maybe some form of LPS, like a Tubastrea (it's NPS, so you may have to supplementally feed it), Micromussa, or any coral that has a large enough mouth?
 

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You'll need a fish to really make real quick work of those. For your size tank, a single really small Goby species (Flaming Prawn Goby, Rusty Goby, etc.) could work.

You could always rehome the fish once the Pods are eliminated.
 

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