Several years ago when I had my fish only tank it was rich with pods. When the lights turned on in the morning there were thousands of copepods everywhere - covering the glass, rocks..............
I was just thinking today that my reef tank is now over 1 year old and I have never seen a single pod. Not one. I have looked at my tank at night, at first light - nothing.
Is it a case where somthing is eating them before the population can grow? My cleanup crew is the standard hermits, turbo snails, and three small starfish. I've never read anything to suggest these critters are big pod eaters if at all. I have a CB Shrimp - but again - I don't know them to be big pod eaters - at least not enough to keep a population down in a 55 gal full of live rock and sand.
With the numerous fish, corals and live rock I've added over the past year from a wide variety of sources I would think I would have introduced some by now.
Anyone else 'pod free? The big difference in this tank is it has a sand bottom where my last one had crushed coral. Are the pods simply living in the sand where I never see them?
I was just thinking today that my reef tank is now over 1 year old and I have never seen a single pod. Not one. I have looked at my tank at night, at first light - nothing.
Is it a case where somthing is eating them before the population can grow? My cleanup crew is the standard hermits, turbo snails, and three small starfish. I've never read anything to suggest these critters are big pod eaters if at all. I have a CB Shrimp - but again - I don't know them to be big pod eaters - at least not enough to keep a population down in a 55 gal full of live rock and sand.
With the numerous fish, corals and live rock I've added over the past year from a wide variety of sources I would think I would have introduced some by now.
Anyone else 'pod free? The big difference in this tank is it has a sand bottom where my last one had crushed coral. Are the pods simply living in the sand where I never see them?