Too add amphipods or not?

KH971 · 04/30/2014, 05:12 PM

Since I have only copepods in my nano tank yet, would you add amphipods? They are much bigger, and with a lot of small gobies, and some of the pods are quite big (amlost 3/4 inch) I only have a pair of clowns and a small clown goby and a neon blue goby that hides in the rocks. Would the large amphipods be bad to add?
In my old tanks I had big fish and there was nothing that was nothing in trouble except for all pods.

NanoReefWanabe · 04/30/2014, 07:05 PM

if you have 3/4" pods those are amphipods….copepods are about 1/16th of an inch and barely visible to eye…there is no reason you can't add more…if there is enough food in there for them they will live if there isn't they will either start eating coral or die off...

04/30/2014, 05:12 PM	#1
KH971 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Eatonton,GA. Posts: 824	Too add amphipods or not? Since I have only copepods in my nano tank yet, would you add amphipods? They are much bigger, and with a lot of small gobies, and some of the pods are quite big (amlost 3/4 inch) I only have a pair of clowns and a small clown goby and a neon blue goby that hides in the rocks. Would the large amphipods be bad to add? In my old tanks I had big fish and there was nothing that was nothing in trouble except for all pods.

04/30/2014, 07:05 PM	#2
NanoReefWanabe Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Barrie, Ontario, Canada Posts: 6,639	if you have 3/4" pods those are amphipods….copepods are about 1/16th of an inch and barely visible to eye…there is no reason you can't add more…if there is enough food in there for them they will live if there isn't they will either start eating coral or die off...