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Well this is the story we have a 30g that has been up and running for 4 months nothing in it but 25lbs LR, live sand about 2”, and an urchin that was banished from the main tank for eating all my coralline. In the last few days we have had a pod explosion and I’m trying to figure out the best way to control them. What do you thing I should do? My wife wants to do seahorses I know that she could handle them when I’m not home. So what should I do?

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Charles
 

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my vote would be to leave them be.
I dont think you can have "too many pods" personally. Its not like they will hurt anything, if anything they will scavenge for left over food or detrius. Consider your troubles luck!
 

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I suggest you look at your feeding habits or stocking levels.
Excess pods would indicate excess food.

They can only reproduce up to a certain point based on available food.
 
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Don’t have any feeding habits the only thing in the tank is an urchin and some chaeto
The urchin eats the chaeto and I guess the pods do too and everyone is fat and happy
If I cut back the chaeto could I have a mass die off of pods and foul the tank?

Or should I get something to help cull the herd
 

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Hi, CPNKUT.
I agree with mario and MarkieB. Leave them along and don't worry about it. I doubt you'll have a mass die off, and even if you did, you'd have to have billions of pods to foul a 30g.

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Don't worry about them. Whatever fish you put in there is likely to keep them in check. They're only out of control because there is nothing here to eat them.

Are you really in Al Kut? I was once a CPT in Al Kut, but I was only driving* through.




* driving = invading
 
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bcallahan said:
Are you really in Al Kut? I was once a CPT in Al Kut, but I was only driving* through.




* driving = invading

Yes I am in Al Kut have been here for 19 months :cry:
 
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Thanks everyone for the info, I think that the seahorse would be cool but I need to do a lot more research. Anyone with good info on them would help

thanks,
Charles
 

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Yea don't go with a mandarin the tanks to small. Mine is in a 58 and I have to supplement. A sixline would do the job but they can be bullies to other fish if intro'd first. The mandarin will hunt sometimes 20 hours a day. He would grow fast and need even more food and there just wont be enough rock to provide it.
 
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Thanks for the info; I think the big problem is we don’t know what we want to do with the tank. I guess that not a bad problem to have we might just leave it until I get home for good, in 4 months I will keep updating if any thing new comes up

Thanks,
Charles
 
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