Please help! I'm scratching my head and worrying about these little guys. Really needing some solid advice here...
I've been able to keep a Scooter Blenny and a Mandarin in my 20g dosing Pods every month or so, without any issue. AIO tank with middle column as a lit refugium. Well over the last month I've noticed TONS of amphipods growing in large numbers, in the fuge and in the main tank. My Dragonets don't touch them. I have added a Six Line to help eat them.., but the six line will also eat tons of copepods too.. but it's only temporary I'm sad because I do KNOW that the Six Line will eventually decimate the amphipods & copepods and starve the others. My Scooter Blenny eats frozen no problem, but my mandarin is a little guy, captive bred BIOTA. They don't fight.
I've been thinking about lowering the water and flooding the overflow and fuge with freshwater to kill the amphipods.. they are growing and the large ones the Dragonetts want nothing to do with them (up to 1/4 to 1/2 an inch). They live for like a year so I'm worried they will gain traction. The Six line eats them no problem but with a small tank, I'm beginning to worry. The Mandarin needs to eat Pods and so does the Scooter, but when I keep adding copepods, the amphipods seem to eat the copepods too.. when I look in my fuge its TONS of amphipods. What can I do? Will flooding the fuge with freshwater for a while help out a lot?
This is giving me a headache. Not looking to tear down the tank. I'm afraid my refugium in the back of my All in One is small. About my arm's width/length. I'm worried about the copepods being decimated by the Wrasse, and the mandarin starving out. It's a small tank. The idea was to throw in the Six Line to help combat the amphipods infestation, but he's got a fat gut now and I'm worried the pods wont be enough for the mandarin. I can keep adding pods all day, but the issue being that Amphipods will eat copepods and reproduce, the amphipods will eat the offspring/eggs of copepods, and the six line will eat both the copepods and amphipods leaving the mandarin and scooter blenny to die.
Any ideas? What would you do? Thanks
I've been able to keep a Scooter Blenny and a Mandarin in my 20g dosing Pods every month or so, without any issue. AIO tank with middle column as a lit refugium. Well over the last month I've noticed TONS of amphipods growing in large numbers, in the fuge and in the main tank. My Dragonets don't touch them. I have added a Six Line to help eat them.., but the six line will also eat tons of copepods too.. but it's only temporary I'm sad because I do KNOW that the Six Line will eventually decimate the amphipods & copepods and starve the others. My Scooter Blenny eats frozen no problem, but my mandarin is a little guy, captive bred BIOTA. They don't fight.
I've been thinking about lowering the water and flooding the overflow and fuge with freshwater to kill the amphipods.. they are growing and the large ones the Dragonetts want nothing to do with them (up to 1/4 to 1/2 an inch). They live for like a year so I'm worried they will gain traction. The Six line eats them no problem but with a small tank, I'm beginning to worry. The Mandarin needs to eat Pods and so does the Scooter, but when I keep adding copepods, the amphipods seem to eat the copepods too.. when I look in my fuge its TONS of amphipods. What can I do? Will flooding the fuge with freshwater for a while help out a lot?
This is giving me a headache. Not looking to tear down the tank. I'm afraid my refugium in the back of my All in One is small. About my arm's width/length. I'm worried about the copepods being decimated by the Wrasse, and the mandarin starving out. It's a small tank. The idea was to throw in the Six Line to help combat the amphipods infestation, but he's got a fat gut now and I'm worried the pods wont be enough for the mandarin. I can keep adding pods all day, but the issue being that Amphipods will eat copepods and reproduce, the amphipods will eat the offspring/eggs of copepods, and the six line will eat both the copepods and amphipods leaving the mandarin and scooter blenny to die.
Any ideas? What would you do? Thanks