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[gregg]

Is this a good thing or bad?

 

[steveb]

Those look like amphipods or isopods. Were they on a coral?


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[gregg]

i found them in my mushroom box... is it good or bad?

 

[alex6528]

Those are pods. Definitely good. Fish food and little tank cleaners.


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[steveb]

Usually detritus eaters. I just paid $100 for a bag of them lol. However some can go after other things. I would be concerned if corals don’t look good and they were all over them. If not toss them in the refugium.


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[steveb]

Unless I could prove they were eating your coral I would return them to the tank.


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[reeftopia]

I rarely see them because of all my wrasses but definitely good

 

[Reefy]

Those are amphipods. Great fish food, my damsel loves them and sometimes doesn’t even eat the fish food I feed him because he’s full. I see him pick the pods off the rocks, he’s always looking around for them. I had some hitchhike in some Chaeto I put in my fuge and they populated my main tank from the return. They keep the rocks and substrate clean. Free CUC & fish food! Haven’t had any problems with them bothering my Zoas or any other corals.

 

[webster1234]

Cockroaches of the reef. Agree with the others. They eat the junk off of your rocks.

 

[Reefahholic]

Good to have and eat a lot of waste.