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Pods eating SPS?


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I am having an issue that isn't making me to happy... I put a test piece of SPS in close proximity to my huge where pods tend to spirt out at night.. So far I have seen some serious bleaching around the base of my pocillopora... Woke up this morning and saw 4 pods around the base munching away!!! What do I do?

 

Help please before they find the main colony

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Heres one picture with them crawling on the SPS..

 

So some back ground.. This piece broke off my main colony and I glued it to the back rock work by the exit of the FUGE ... Could it be dying? Maybe... is waking up with 4 pods on it daunting ...YES... and the polyps are still extended which entails that the SPS isn't agitated...

 

 

PLEASE HELP


p.s white light so its really not brown...

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Pods do not eat healthy flesh. They would pick at the flesh if it was dying a little bit from the break and glue. or any film that is being created by the new glue/frag plug being in the water.

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Pods do not eat healthy flesh. They would pick at the flesh if it was dying a little bit from the break and glue. or any film that is being created by the new glue/frag plug being in the water.

 

Is this documented?

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Cool! I love my pod numbers and they have been great as part of my tank just kinda scary seeming them surround this SPS especially since they are rather large now ...

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Cencalfishguy56

Heres one picture with them crawling on the SPS..

 

So some back ground.. This piece broke off my main colony and I glued it to the back rock work by the exit of the FUGE ... Could it be dying? Maybe... is waking up with 4 pods on it daunting ...YES... and the polyps are still extended which entails that the SPS isn't agitated...

 

 

PLEASE HELP

 

p.s white light so its really not brown...

that looks like STN to me, there's no flesh on that base and the amphipods are probably finishing off any dead flesh
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that looks like STN to me, there's no flesh on that base and the amphipods are probably finishing off any dead flesh

 

STN?

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I agree with STN,what are your tank params,are things stable ? Also,with the Orbit,I would probably move things up a little higher. How is flow though ? A good flow rate and random flow is key.

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I had some sps under my fuge outflow.. they didn't do so well at all. once moved they slowly recovered

I have read about a type of amphipod that will consume zoa's, but I keep a variety of copepods in my tank for my pipe fish and have never had an issue with copepods, or read about it, and I've read every article and paper I could find

 

the amphipods in my tank will consume dying tissue, but I suspect it's because the coral is dying from other causes. mostly, they are all scavengers, not predators

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