How to kill copepods?

[07 Sti]

My 100gal FO is loaded with these things for years. When I turn the lights on in the morning, there a zillions of them crawling on the back glass. I've tried most everything over the years, but I have never been able to eliminate them. They look like tiny white bugs crawling around. Any suggestions how to eliminate them without killing my fish/inverts?

Thanks,

07

[ReeferBill]

Hello Sti : Get a mandarin or red scooter and you can controll them naturally. this sounds like a problem that many reefers would love to have so they could keep a mandy successfully. Happy Reefing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:dance:

[njudson]

Why do you want them dead? That's free fish food. If you don't like the look of them maybe get a wrasse or something to eat them.

[Pallobi]

Getting rid.of.them would.be.foolish...

[mcrist]

When you have a lot of copepods it is a sign of good stable reef, don't try to kill them.

[RayAllen]

My 100gal FO is loaded with these things for years. When I turn the lights on in the morning, there a zillions of them crawling on the back glass. I've tried most everything over the years, but I have never been able to eliminate them. They look like tiny white bugs crawling around. Any suggestions how to eliminate them without killing my fish/inverts?

Thanks,

07

Im with the others on this one.

You have been in the hobby for years? Most of us know how beneficial copepods are to a saltwater aquarium. When I do not see them in my reef I get a little uneasy, copepods= healthy aquarium.

[chimmike]

Ignorance is bliss.

[sjmantis]

That would be like taking the turbo off your 07 Sti :P

[Matt Dean]

Geez, I just spent $110 to bump up the population of pods in my 125. I WISH I had that problem.

Mandarins areso beautiful. It's a great excuse to get one. Also, look at a Blue Star Leopard Wrasse. They eat them and they are gorgeous. (I have 3 :celeb1:)

[RVANANO]

+50 on a mandarin

[cyberwild360]

sell them

[crvz]

there are medications that will wipe out a variety of inverts in your tank (think of the heart worm medication interceptor, which is commonly used in the hobby to eliminate red-bugs from acropora species corals), however they are indiscriminate and would also kill off any other crabs or shrimp in the tank (snails would be fine). I would much sooner employ some mandarin gobies and/or a handful of halicheores wrasses (canary wrasse, christmas wrasse, radiant wrasse, etc.) to help control the population.

[07 Sti]

Are you referring to the Mandarin Goby? I have three juvenile angels: queen, asfur, & goldflake. I don't think my fish eat these little buggers. And I don't have a reef tank, only FO with coral skeletons. What puzzles me most is how the damn things got into my tank. But I will do as you guys say, and leave well enough alone.

[joejoe1055]

came in on liverock is my guess

[hpi_jeep]

sell them

sell them to me :D
no really

[mike810]

That would be like taking the turbo off your 07 Sti :P

LOL :lolspin::hammer::lolspin:

[zenpytho]

sixlines wrasse is great for copepods too

[cside]

I would love to have them :p

[sucker_fish]

I say bag as many as possible and sell them or even better PIF to some fellow reefers I know plenty people that would love to have your problem

[koralkrab125]

they are very beneficial to your system just get a couple fish that use them as a food source like mandarins, wrasses, and other small fish

[spehhh]

get a mandrian goby. they will be gone in no time!!

[07 Sti]

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