Oct 17, 2020 #1 W waqas_01 Community Member View Badges Joined Aug 23, 2020 Messages 48 Reaction score 44 Location Toronto Rating - 0% 0 0 0 Looks like some sort of a pod but its huge? Roughly 5mm body and a couple more with the antlers. When its swimming about its straight like a stick and then when i hit it with some flow it curls up into a c-shaped ball. One of the good guys? Can I throw it into the fuge?
Looks like some sort of a pod but its huge? Roughly 5mm body and a couple more with the antlers. When its swimming about its straight like a stick and then when i hit it with some flow it curls up into a c-shaped ball. One of the good guys? Can I throw it into the fuge?
Oct 17, 2020 #2 ReQuackulous Active Member View Badges Joined Sep 7, 2020 Messages 136 Reaction score 122 Location Los Angeles Rating - 0% 0 0 0 It looks like a standard amphipod i have a ton of them in my tank and are good.
Oct 17, 2020 #3 vetteguy53081 Well known Member and monster tank lover View Badges Partner Member 2024 Excellence Award Reef Tank 365 RGB Article Contributor Tampa Bay Reef Keepers West Palm Beach Reefer Hospitality Award Ocala Reef Club Member 305 Reef Club Wisco Reefers Midwest Reefer Fish Medic MAC of SW Florida Rock Pool Reef Keepers R2R Secret Santa 2023 My Tank Thread My Aquarium Showcase Joined Aug 11, 2013 Messages 90,836 Reaction score 200,094 Location Wisconsin - Rating - 100% 13 0 0 Large pod Sump would be fine
Oct 18, 2020 #4 SHNICI Well-Known Member and Coral Cabin owner View Badges UK Reef Club Member My Tank Thread Joined Jun 20, 2018 Messages 1,573 Reaction score 1,440 Location Kent Rating - 0% 0 0 0 Amphipod of some SP, usually good CUC, if you see them sometimes on your corals, can be mainly after you feed them, the pods, are trying to steal some food from the corals
Amphipod of some SP, usually good CUC, if you see them sometimes on your corals, can be mainly after you feed them, the pods, are trying to steal some food from the corals
Oct 18, 2020 #5 KJ Lone Wolf View Badges Reef Squad Leader Excellence Award ETRC Member Hospitality Award Joined Dec 14, 2011 Messages 22,318 Reaction score 113,205 Location Tennessee Rating - 0% 0 0 0 waqas_01 said: Looks like some sort of a pod but its huge? Roughly 5mm body and a couple more with the antlers. When its swimming about its straight like a stick and then when i hit it with some flow it curls up into a c-shaped ball. One of the good guys? Can I throw it into the fuge? Click to expand... Welcome to R2R!!! Amphipod gammarid.
waqas_01 said: Looks like some sort of a pod but its huge? Roughly 5mm body and a couple more with the antlers. When its swimming about its straight like a stick and then when i hit it with some flow it curls up into a c-shaped ball. One of the good guys? Can I throw it into the fuge? Click to expand... Welcome to R2R!!! Amphipod gammarid.
Oct 18, 2020 #6 OP OP W waqas_01 Community Member View Badges Joined Aug 23, 2020 Messages 48 Reaction score 44 Location Toronto Rating - 0% 0 0 0 Thanks for all the replies. I ended tossing it into the fuge. I've been out of the hobby for about 8 years but I'm back with a vengeance.
Thanks for all the replies. I ended tossing it into the fuge. I've been out of the hobby for about 8 years but I'm back with a vengeance.
Oct 18, 2020 #7 Adamantium Valuable Member View Badges My Tank Thread Joined Sep 10, 2018 Messages 1,533 Reaction score 1,039 Rating - 0% 0 0 0 Amphipod for sure. I have a TON come out after lights out.