Amphipods how many is too many?

[Snarl]

Was looking at my tank the other night and noticed that I am completely infested with Amphipods. I mean they are literally everywhere. This brings me to the question is it possible to have too many of them?

 

[Paul B]

You can't have to many as they will starve if there isn't enough food. I literally collect and dump in five gallon buckets of them a few times a year.

 

[cincyjim]

I wish I had this as a problem lol. Your fish and shrimp are living large

 

[davocean]

Wonderful free food for anything that eats them, it most likely will not remain that heavy for long.

 

[heathlindner25]

Get some fish.

 

[Paul B]

Here is a five gallon bucket of amphipods.


And a video of a few of them.

 

[Shawn O]

Don't amphipods eat copopods?

 

[Paul B]

I have no idea but I have plenty of both. When I keep them in a seperate tank they eat flake food but their favorite is dying vegetation and rotting wood as that is where they are congregated when I collect them by the thousands on clumps of the stuff.
Here is a video

 

[amber3k]

I have a ton of amphipods, but I feed my tank heavy. I have a copperband butterfly that eats them so I like yo keep him happy. I have never noticed anything bad from having all them. My rocks and sand are crawling with them once lights go out.

 

[Shawn O]

I caught a couple of amphipods in a tide pool a few weeks ago and my Dottyback munched them pretty quick. A few days ago I caught about a dozen and all of my fish went for them, except for the firefish, who's mouth is much too small for the ones I caught. I caught four small brown shrimp and the dottyback went into hunter-killer mode. Yesterday I caught about a dozen shrimp and the smaller ones didn't last too long. This morning there were about five or six still alive and swimming around. The fish bite at them but my Dwarf Zebra hermit is the only one I saw sitting down for a nice long meal. The dottyback, at one point, attacked a shrimp like a great white shark. He had it in his mouth at the mid-point and was thrashing around a bit. Interesting behavior to witness.