Fish that eats amphipods

[zoolover]

Anyone know of any reef safe fish that will take care of these? I've got about 8 billion of them in a 15 gallon reef with a couple of clowns, and they're starting to climb all over my zoas and make them close up. I don't think they're harming anything but its starting to get annoying.

 

[aquaph8]

The hard part is finding a fish that will do well in that small of a tank, what fish do you have now?

 

[SushiGirl]

Can't really put anything else that would eat them in a 15 with 2 clowns.

 

[aquaph8]

My bad, I missed the clowns. I agree with sushi girl.

 

[cichlidsrcool]

Mandarin Goby

Mandarin Goby

Could try Mandarin Goby maybe

 

[zoolover]

I thought about a mandarin but I've heard they stick only to copepods. Thought about maybe a diamond goby, he'd be happy as hell if he would eat them there's so many.

 

[phinfan8]

Catch them and sell em

 

[kevin32]

Try a scooter blenny. You can ween them on mysis shrimp too.

 

[rssjsb]

No dragonets are really suitable to a 15-gallon tank. Scooters and mandarins will almost certainly starve in your tank. A scooter is more likely to eat prepared foods than a mandarin, but even if it does, it may not be enough to sustain it. Trust me on this, I know. I'm not sure they eat amphipods anyway.

 

[ScootsComputes]

Won't the zoas eat the pods crawling on them? Just wondering..

 

[zoolover]

The amphipods are way to big to be eaten by a zoanthid even if the zoa wanted to eat it. Many of them are a half inch long...