How to remove pods and other microscopic inverts safely?

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So I have a 10 gal, having a bit of a inverts crisis, I’m having bug fat copepods or pods going around kinda annoying coral, and I want to kill off a lot of my pod pop cuz I feel like I have too much(it’s dead/decomposing pod town in my tank,there are carpets of them) and I’m seeing them left and right
Ik uv sterilizer, but on the rocks and corals tho
So is there a safe way to do it without killing all of them, keeping sps/lips/softies alive, and other cuc?
 

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The clown dosen't eat he pods? They normally love as well. Especially if they are that easy to catch
 
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The clown dosen't eat he pods? They normally love as well. Especially if they are that easy to catch
Don’t see him damming a difference(see him grazing on algae sometimes, and pods too), cuz there r A LOT!!!!
They r white fluffy balls, u can see in my last post, somebody said they were shells of some sort(it was a long name)
 

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Move the clowns to another tank long enough to get something established in the tank(a month or 2)
 
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The thing is, my clown owns the tank, he killed my last fish next day
Proof… everybody was saying no more fish, I’m just scared that my clown is gonna die…
I love him :D
 

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I missed the '10 gallon tank' bit. Ya, wrasses, 6 line included are usually 30gal minimum. 10 gallon tank is going to limit you pretty heavy on what all you can add. With clowns too. You may have better luck siphoning them out with a stick of hard airline or similar.
 

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I missed the '10 gallon tank' bit. Ya, wrasses, 6 line included are usually 30gal minimum. 10 gallon tank is going to limit you pretty heavy on what all you can add. With clowns too. You may have better luck siphoning them out with a stick of hard airline or similar.
I was thinking of one of those baby mandarins from biota.. give him a couple years to upgrade. But Idk about the clowns, don't want them killing the little guy
 

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Are you sure they are irritating the corals? I find that hard to believe. Also, do you mean amphipods? You would not see copepod exoskeletons as they are too small. If they are amphipods, just having less leftover food will help.
 

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So I have a 10 gal, having a bit of a inverts crisis, I’m having bug fat copepods or pods going around kinda annoying coral, and I want to kill off a lot of my pod pop cuz I feel like I have too much(it’s dead/decomposing pod town in my tank,there are carpets of them) and I’m seeing them left and right
Ik uv sterilizer, but on the rocks and corals tho
So is there a safe way to do it without killing all of them, keeping sps/lips/softies alive, and other cuc?
To clarify here, taricha ID'ed these not as pods, but as foraminiferans - it's kind of hard to explain what they are since they're not like most critters we're typically familiar, but basically picture an amoeba with a thick shell (for a more technical description, see the Wikipedia page on them).

Lots of critters eat them, but typically only in small quantities, and it's presumed that most critters that eat them eat them for the calcium in their shells. Aside from a handful of specialist feeders (certain gastropods, scaphopods, deep-sea peanut worms, and specific isopods), the only critter I know eats meaningful quantities of these is the Darter Goby, Ctenogobius boleosoma. Unfortunately, I've never seen these or even a relative of theirs for sale.

Anyway, most foraminiferans are harmless; some are known to be parasites, though, including sometimes coral parasites. I'm not familiar enough with foraminiferans yet to know if that's what you're dealing with here, but it may be a possibility (albeit not a likely one).

If you do have a foram infestation that's causing issues, I'm honestly not sure how you could deal with that in a reef-safe way (especially since some forams are capable of photosynthesis).

For anyone wondering, the ID thread:
 

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