What do pods look like?
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See Little Bitty Bugs for pictures and facts on Copepods.
reefnetworth
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there are three types of pods.
1: tiger pods
2: amphipods
3: copepods
the tigers have brownish stripes and white/clear body.
amphipods are white/clear coration, just smaller.
copepods are tiny white coloration, they probably came from the Fiji LR.
congrats' now you have detritus and poo clean-up crew. they are also food for Nassarius and crabs and all fish.
have a great day,
JDM...
1: tiger pods
2: amphipods
3: copepods
the tigers have brownish stripes and white/clear body.
amphipods are white/clear coration, just smaller.
copepods are tiny white coloration, they probably came from the Fiji LR.
congrats' now you have detritus and poo clean-up crew. they are also food for Nassarius and crabs and all fish.
have a great day,
JDM...
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returnofsid
New member
From your description, I'd say they're either Amphipods or Mysid Shrimp.
reefnetworth
Premium Member
waterkeepers first mistake! :lol: and youre always correct. 
JDM...
JDM...
Here is a condensed version Pods without a Program
Editor's Note-- The "people" that Ron refers to in the first paragraph of that article are mainly your's truly. A little over a year before that I started calling copepods, amphipods and isopods "Pods" for short. I was not the first to call them this but I probably brought the term "Pods" into the mainstream lingo of reefing. Anyhow, there was some battles going on at that time between the Chemist and Biologists and I was one of the Chemists critical of some of Ron's research. I think Ron was possibly trying to hit back here. It did not help that I argued that biologists themselves call the Protista group of Foraminiferans, just Forams for short. Anyhow, just a bit of RC trivia.
Editor's Note-- The "people" that Ron refers to in the first paragraph of that article are mainly your's truly. A little over a year before that I started calling copepods, amphipods and isopods "Pods" for short. I was not the first to call them this but I probably brought the term "Pods" into the mainstream lingo of reefing. Anyhow, there was some battles going on at that time between the Chemist and Biologists and I was one of the Chemists critical of some of Ron's research. I think Ron was possibly trying to hit back here. It did not help that I argued that biologists themselves call the Protista group of Foraminiferans, just Forams for short. Anyhow, just a bit of RC trivia.
Paintbug
New member
this page covers most the types of pods you will encounter
http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/hitchpods.html
http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/hitchpods.html
Oh no, I forgot about Ostracods (hereafter better known as Cods 
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Good pics-thanks.
). :eek1:Good pics-thanks.
