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POD Eating my Palys!!!

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Douwant2play
, 05-11-2010 at 11:38 PM (2028 Views)
So recently My palys skirts have been looking really bad, and I couldn't figure out what was going on. I looked for Sundials, Zoa Spiders, Nudi, Nudi eggs and couldn't find anything! Well tonight while I was checking on Livestock while lights were out I saw the biggest pod ever! And he was munching on the skirt of these palys! Which is sort of a relief to me, since I know its not any of the other pests, but how do I kill this Monster! I have some CoralRX coming in soon, maybe I'll give it a dip. Good thing he has stayed to this colony, I think he lives under the rock these Palys are on as that is where he scurried when I saw him. anybody have any expirience like this? And what did you do?

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  1. melev's Avatar
    You must be referring to an Amphipod. From time to time, people report what you've described. This guy?

  2. Douwant2play's Avatar
    yep, that is the culprit! I was doing some reading about people who have reported the same thing. Two things I found was that almost everyone that said this was happening had a low fish count, and didn't feed the tank often. I feed every other day, but it is minimal as I only have 1 small fish, the tiger goby (sad to report I lost the green band, not confirmed, but I have not seen it in a couple days). I will be getting some cyclopeeze soon to feed the whole tank, maybe this guy will get some and layoff the palys.
  3. MeVsTheWorld's Avatar
    Was it actually eating the zoa/paly? I have witnessed several amphipods on and around my zoas/palys at night, but never eating them. I think they are eating detritus and what not around them, and just really aggravating them. A wrasse like a sixline will do heavy damage to their population.
  4. Douwant2play's Avatar
    It sure looked like it was eating the skirts, and the polyps that were hit first are still looking cruddy. After I did the CoralRX dip though (48 hours ago) the palys are opening and looking a lot better. It could have been this pd, or it could have had bad critters on it, but I didn't notice anything on them when they were in the tank, and after the dip, I didn't see any pests, except for FWs, but I don't think they were the culprit. The pod I caught on them a couple times on the skirts of these palys, not just around the rock and base of the palys as many of the pods do.