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We are pleased to carry amphipods in stock and are able to ship weekly according to our shipping schedule. All options Monday and Tuesday, 2 Day and Overnight on Wednesday, and Overnight on Thursdays.
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Starting at only $7 you can add this powerhouse live food clean up crewmember to your tank today!
Choose the right quantity for your needs, from Nanno to Mega Reef, we have you covered.
Amphipods are a natural food source in all types of water from fresh to salt and saltwater aquariums. There is no doubt that they can play an important role in our aquariums. Amphipods create a living sustainable nutritious food source for most if not all the fish we keep in our aquariums. There is no question that live foods in the right environment provide our fish with nutritional benefits over frozen or dry foods.
Amphipods can play an important role in maintaining good water parameters as they reduce nutrients in our aquariums in a number of ways. Because they are alive, the introduction of amphipods or other live foods does not increase nutrients at the same rate as prepared foods. Prepared foods are immediately deteriorating adding ammonia to our systems as they decompose, especially the foods that escape our fish and get into our rockwork and sand beds. These crustaceans are excellent scavengers, dining on algae and detritus. In this way they remove the waste converting it into a food supply (themselves) for every fish in your system.
Many amphipods are omnivorous, so along with cleaning up the waste from prepared foods, they also consume algae. This makes them an invaluable addition to any tank’s CUC (Clean Up Crew). Stocking amphipods along with copepods, the combination can get down into the tiniest of cracks and crevices eating algae to the root, so that it doesn’t just grow right back as happens often with larger herbivores such as tangs and rabbitfish. Early introduction when setting up a new system or when making a major change, reset or moving a tank can greatly reduce what we refer to as the “Ugly Stage” in the hobby. And who doesn’t love an algae free tank.
Amphipods can become self-sustaining in the appropriate system, and do not require pristine conditions to do so. Not that our target isn’t pristine conditions, but due to amphipods living in the wild in less than perfect conditions, it is probable that they will reproduce in your system with little assistance from you.
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