Where are my pods?

[friendtothefish]

Hello all.

I have many tanks and have been in the hobby for 2+years. I have a nano reef at my office. Its a 8" cylinder 12" tall (about 2.6 gal). In this tank I see hundreds of pod on the glass and on the rocks and sand. But in both of my larger home tanks can I find 1 pod. they are both healthy tanks and have been running ofr 2 years.

One is a 29 gallon eclipse, that has been a great tank. Not much maintanace at all. And the other tank is a 40gal with 4x 96w 2x actinic and 2x daylight, sump for a 75gal.
For flow I have the sump output which is not veryhard, and then one powerhead.

The only thing I can think of is that there is too much flow or something so they cannot propagate. But the sane doesnt even move from the flow so I highly doubt that.

What do you guys think?

 

[Paintbug]

how much livestock is in the big tanks compared to the smaller one. its posible that the fish are eating them as fast as the multiply.

you can take a small peice of LR from the tank that has alot, and place in another tank for a few days to transfer some new pods there. you may want to dose some Photoplankton of some sort as well to feed them.

 

[Dubbin1]

They have more hiding spaces in the bigger tanks. Take a flashlight and look in the tank after the lights are out for a little bit. You will see all kinds of stuff you never knew you had.

 

[friendtothefish]

I will try the flashlight, but I have lloked day and night and not seen any. But at work they are there all day lon. In a bright office...

 

[CrazyLionfish]

One day I had been upstairs watching TV for a while (I have also had tanks for 2+ years) and remembered I wanted to look for pods. So I came downstairs after the tank and the tank room had been pitch black for about 2 hours and looked and I saw hundreds!

 

[friendtothefish]

Could it possibly be that I have this table that I built that has a light in it that shines up through a mosaic of colored glass beads. So that room always has some light.

Is that it?