holy pods!!

[Salty Brother]

Im so happy, I just added some rock to my fuge like a week ago. Before that I didnt see like any pods. Yesterday a saw a bunch, and today I saw about double. Im not sure on the specfic names, but Ive seen the small ones and the bigger ones.
Just wanted to let people know of my joy.
Patrick

 

[wrott]

Congrats on your invasion of the pods !!

 

[sir_dudeguy]

sounds cool the small ones...are they EXTREMELY small and you can just barely see them on the glass? if so, those are prolly the copepods. The bigger ones. Are they about the size of those big red ants? if so, those are prolly amphipods. isopods seem to be more long and slender from what i've seen, but there are some dif. shaped ones too.

 

[Salty Brother]

ya the small ones are pretty tiny. And the bigger ones probably about the size of red ants. I was actually surprised to see how big they were.
And there are some like in between.

 

[sir_dudeguy]

ya i was also surprised how big the amphipods are. Now i see how fish like my sixline wrasse can actually make a meal of them Altho he kicks the copepods off the glass so he can eat them out of the water. But the amphipods range anywhere from really tiny to the size of the big ones. Some get just huge tho (for a pod) and all those amphipods usually kinda curl their hindside underneith themselves (looks pretty stupid the way they do it actaully lol)