Lots of very little bugs?

cirelli77 · 09-18-2007, 03:18 PM

Today i noticed a good amount of very small bug like creatures moving in my sand. Is this normal for a tank thats about 3 months old?

toniell · 09-18-2007, 03:22 PM

well sounds like you have very live sand !

partobe · 09-18-2007, 03:28 PM

sounds like pods if so a very good thing!

jerseyguy1996 · 09-18-2007, 03:41 PM

Feel free to ship me some of that sand. My tank has been running for 9 months and I've never seen a pod.

cirelli77 · 09-18-2007, 04:13 PM

Awsome, they really are all over some are even climbing on the rock. In the tak rt now i have a finger leather a bubble coral, trumpet coral and a small batch of button polyps. So far they all look really healthy. I haven't been to successful with fish though ive lost a few, a mimic tang, a gramma and 2 cardinals. None of them were eating. I think they all starved to death

toniell · 09-18-2007, 08:21 PM

Well if you have never been able to keep fish you may hav isopods and those are what is killing all your fish, I'm no expert so maybe someone else will put there 2 cent's in.

Hardhead Cat · 09-19-2007, 08:11 AM

Copepods are a very good thing, but I find it curious that you can't keep fish - - usually I have trouble with keeping corals but not keeping fish.

HHC