How to remove pods and other microscopic inverts safely?

[stewy14]

So I have a 10 gal, having a bit of a inverts crisis, I’m having bug fat copepods or pods going around kinda annoying coral, and I want to kill off a lot of my pod pop cuz I feel like I have too much(it’s dead/decomposing pod town in my tank,there are carpets of them) and I’m seeing them left and right
Ik uv sterilizer, but on the rocks and corals tho
So is there a safe way to do it without killing all of them, keeping sps/lips/softies alive, and other cuc?

 

[Reefering1]

Get a small fish to eat them...

 

[crazyfishmom]

+1 on the small fish… I’m in the midst of doing the same myself. Ordered a possum wrasse

 

[Red_Beard]

Wrasses are legit for this. Hunter killers all day, every day

 

[stewy14]

The thing is, my clown owns the tank, he killed my last fish next day

 

[crazyfishmom]

The thing is, my clown owns the tank, he killed my last fish next day

Then a six line is the way to go. They’re mean little friends.

 

[Justfebreezeit]

The clown dosen't eat he pods? They normally love as well. Especially if they are that easy to catch

 

[stewy14]

Then a six line is the way to go. They’re mean little friends.

But I don’t want the six line to injure the clown, or the other way around

 

[stewy14]

The clown dosen't eat he pods? They normally love as well. Especially if they are that easy to catch

Don’t see him damming a difference(see him grazing on algae sometimes, and pods too), cuz there r A LOT!!!!
They r white fluffy balls, u can see in my last post, somebody said they were shells of some sort(it was a long name)

 

[Reefering1]

Move the clowns to another tank long enough to get something established in the tank(a month or 2)

 

[crazyfishmom]

But I don’t want the six line to injure the clown, or the other way around

It shouldn’t injure the clown coming in as a last arrival but it also can hold its own. Best of both worlds.

 

[stewy14]

Move the clowns to another tank long enough to get something established in the tank(a month or 2)

Don’t have another tank, well, I am in the midst of setting up a 2.5g macroalgae

 

[stewy14]

The thing is, my clown owns the tank, he killed my last fish next day

emerald crab and goby death

I just bought a new twin spot goby yesterday evening, and just came back from a get-together, and the goby was COMPLETELY ripped apart was this cause the crabs are low on food? is this normal? something... its a 11.3 gal and my lfs said it is fine

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Proof… everybody was saying no more fish, I’m just scared that my clown is gonna die…
I love him

 

[Idech]

Maybe put a basket coffee filter inside a net and scoop them out ? Or filter floss even ?

 

[Red_Beard]

I missed the '10 gallon tank' bit. Ya, wrasses, 6 line included are usually 30gal minimum. 10 gallon tank is going to limit you pretty heavy on what all you can add. With clowns too. You may have better luck siphoning them out with a stick of hard airline or similar.

 

[Reefering1]

I missed the '10 gallon tank' bit. Ya, wrasses, 6 line included are usually 30gal minimum. 10 gallon tank is going to limit you pretty heavy on what all you can add. With clowns too. You may have better luck siphoning them out with a stick of hard airline or similar.

I was thinking of one of those baby mandarins from biota.. give him a couple years to upgrade. But Idk about the clowns, don't want them killing the little guy

 

[crazyfishmom]

If you add a mandarin in a tank that size it is likely to die within a couple of months. The pods you have now will only sustain a mandarin for a very short period of time.

 

[Spare time]

Are you sure they are irritating the corals? I find that hard to believe. Also, do you mean amphipods? You would not see copepod exoskeletons as they are too small. If they are amphipods, just having less leftover food will help.

 

[stewy14]

Are you sure they are irritating the corals? I find that hard to believe. Also, do you mean amphipods? You would not see copepod exoskeletons as they are too small. If they are amphipods, just having less leftover food will help.

Yeah, amphipods sorry

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

So I have a 10 gal, having a bit of a inverts crisis, I’m having bug fat copepods or pods going around kinda annoying coral, and I want to kill off a lot of my pod pop cuz I feel like I have too much(it’s dead/decomposing pod town in my tank,there are carpets of them) and I’m seeing them left and right
Ik uv sterilizer, but on the rocks and corals tho
So is there a safe way to do it without killing all of them, keeping sps/lips/softies alive, and other cuc?

To clarify here, taricha ID'ed these not as pods, but as foraminiferans - it's kind of hard to explain what they are since they're not like most critters we're typically familiar, but basically picture an amoeba with a thick shell (for a more technical description, see the Wikipedia page on them).

Lots of critters eat them, but typically only in small quantities, and it's presumed that most critters that eat them eat them for the calcium in their shells. Aside from a handful of specialist feeders (certain gastropods, scaphopods, deep-sea peanut worms, and specific isopods), the only critter I know eats meaningful quantities of these is the Darter Goby, Ctenogobius boleosoma. Unfortunately, I've never seen these or even a relative of theirs for sale.

Anyway, most foraminiferans are harmless; some are known to be parasites, though, including sometimes coral parasites. I'm not familiar enough with foraminiferans yet to know if that's what you're dealing with here, but it may be a possibility (albeit not a likely one).

If you do have a foram infestation that's causing issues, I'm honestly not sure how you could deal with that in a reef-safe way (especially since some forams are capable of photosynthesis).

For anyone wondering, the ID thread:

White fluffy things IRRITATING coral? Microscope pics included

So, I made a thread asking what these were around two-three weeks ago, concluded they were pods, but, they are back and irritating coral!! Poccilapora and stylophora are fully closed, seen this ever since I noticed the fluffy things on them, so here r pics! @vetteguy53081 @Jay Hemdal

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