pod problem

[heathlindner25]

Could someone tell me what would help get rid of a massive pod outbreak

 

[jamescook]

not sure why you would want to get rid of copepods, but many small fish eat them.

 

[jbadd99]

blackwolfl;750906 wrote: buy some fish??

+1

 

[lilrobb]

Bag them and sell them if it is THAT massive...

 

[hud3339]

buy a wrasse or Mandrian (sp?)

 

[bulkrate]

What fish do you have in that tank? Plastic? ;-)

Just about every fish I've ever seen goes after pods with a vengeance. My blue neon goby picked my tank clean in a couple of weeks...now I only have mostly amphipods left since it doesn't hit the sandbed for a snack.

But yes, if you really want 'em gone a sixline wrasse or mandarin will clear that up for you.

 

[jef4y]

another vote on a wrasse or mandarin.

and another question of why would you want to get rid of them? Free food!

 

[jimknutson]

Lol. Pods make my sump nasty but they don't survive in my display. Everything in the tank eats them.

 

[heathlindner25]

Thanks for replies I don't want to get rid of all of them but theirs millions in the water column

Edit: I have a yellow tang, a cromis,1 pj cardinal and just added a perk

Edit: In a 36 gal bow dont want to many fish small system a more into the coral

 

[jimknutson]

If you don't want to add fish, get a cleaner shrimp.

 

[zavala83]

Bag em' and sell em'. There are lots of people that would probably jump on that.

 

[heathlindner25]

I have 2 peppermint shimp in the crew but will a cleaner get rid of a large amount

 

[ripped tide]

Are they bugging you or something? As folks have stated, most people are in the opposite position. They want more pods. Pods are good. They scavenge and eat algae. If you have a bunch, and your corals are happy, I'd leave them right where they are.

 

[ralph atl]

I'll take some...or all actually.

 

[jennm]

All your fish will eat pods. Maybe not so much the tang, but everything else will eat them.

I'd love to have that "problem".

Jenn

 

[heathlindner25]

Alright,alright, im 8 months into this and I though I might have a problem

 

[frantz]

or maybe even micro bubbles or dirt being stirred up? Though I had mysis after a little less than year so I'm not sure why 8 months is hard to believe?

 

[miami dolfan]

Mandarins love them!

 

[nathannano]

keep them pods !!! wish i had more.. just give them to me 8P

 

[heathlindner25]

They look like their all different sizes from microscopic to were I can see their little antenna