Acans and amphipods

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No... I've never seen pods harrassing any of my corals. I have seen them crawling around in zoos (no apparent damage or ill effects), but in those pictures it is on a type of red bubble algae.

Off topic but I have had excellent success getting a scopas tang to eat that type of RBA.

 

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The pictures of those scans looks just like what mine looked like when they started to head south. It would never happen to more than one colony at a time, and coincidentally, it never happened before I had amphipods in the tank either. I had a mandarin at one point that wiped out every single pod in my tank, never saw one of any variety for about a year until they obviously hitchhiked in on something. From then until about 2 months ago, I had as many as 8 healthy, rapidly-growing acan colonies. I can't help but consider the possible correlation there.