Short term zoa eating pod solution

[JReefaddict]

i just went out with a flashlight and looked at my zoa colonies that arent doing well, i didnt see anything on the zoas themselves, but i saw something that looked like a pod on the rock work next to it. i may be dipping one this weekend just to see if anything comes off them

 

[HighLo]

I had amphipods eating my zoanthids. Then they started on my 30 head duncan colony that I had grown from a small 3 head piece that had taken me a year to grow and completely killed it.
They then went for my favourite blue blastomusso, I couldn't stand it.
I read every article and thread on amphipod eating corals that I could find.
(At the same time this was going on I had good pod predators mandarin and copper band which are only effective during the day).
Finally found a Youtube video a guy who had used peppermint shimp and redline shrimp. So I bought the same shrimp within a week my problem was solved. I still do nightly random checks and I do not see any pods near my corals. I have had my shrimp about 2 months now and my corals that were not completely eaten have started to recover.
At the time I found this so frustrating and stressful I was going to stop keeping corals. This is my first post on reef central I hope this help fellow reefers.

 

[jimnyo]

oh my goodness high low, thanks for posting b/c guess what? i HAD a peppermint shrimp! and it died about 2 weeks before all this started going down! coincidence? i'm thinking not...

 

[kv69]

I too had this problem and i got a 6 line. hes fat and happy and not a pod in sight

 

[fragbox]

they 100% will eat them every tank needs pod control

 

[mussel and hate]

they 100% will eat them every tank needs pod control

Perhaps but only if "they" are a specific variety of amphipod that dines on zoanthids. I've been keeping zoanthids and palys since the '80s and have had burgeoning populations of amphipods the whole time without issue. There are pods and then there are pods.

Quarantine and observation is the correct protocol for any new specimen. If you just dump something in the tank you can expect a variety of problems.