Too Many Pods?

[derrick orosz]

Currently the back of my tank and over flows are covered in hundreds of pods...I don't have a manderine to eat them. Can it be a bad thing to have so many? Or nothing to worry about?

 

[zoomster]

I am interested in hearing the answers to this as well.
I have hundreds of them in my frag tank and nothing to consume them either.
Nothing seems to be annoyed so I would.guess there is no problem?

 

[Nonuser]

scoop some up i'll drop by and take them, i got your back.

why did you get pods if you have nothing to eat them?

 

[derrick orosz]

scoop some up i'll drop by and take them, i got your back.

why did you get pods if you have nothing to eat them?

In my previous tank I had a manderine so I kept lots of pods... used the same rock so the pods came from the previous tank

 

[SamB]

IMO impossible to have TOO many pods
Congratulations

 

[Nonuser]

would they not multiply until saturation then they would have to start to stave to death and not sure if it would foul the water. I think everything has to balance out some way. no?

 

[David Caplan]

You can never have too many, its free fish and coral food, and they clean up detritus. The limiting factor is the food available to them, if for some reason you are dosing phyto and stop, or change your feeding schedule then they may not reproduce as quickly, the population balances out to the food available to them. There are no negatives to having as many pods as your tank will sustain given its feedings.

 

[David Caplan]

The only negative I have experienced was in small tanks (AIO) after feeding or during phytoplankton dosing, they come out like a storm from the returns and you can barely see inside the tank. Looks like an explosion of air bubbles.

 

[kjardine519]

+1 in a controlled envoirment die off will have a minimal effect. If you have fish they can release waste that will do more damage. With their exoskeleton makeup they end up getting consumed by many other creatures. IMO

 

[Themaddhatter]

My back glass is covered with round white little nodules are these related to the pods? I know I get a lot of tiny squirmy white pods on the front glass in spots I haven't cleaned for a couple of days. But the stuff on the back looks hard.

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[sirhc13]

My back glass is covered with round white little nodules are these related to the pods? I know I get a lot of tiny squirmy white pods on the front glass in spots I haven't cleaned for a couple of days. But the stuff on the back looks hard.

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I have the same white spots you are talking about, and yes they are hard, need a razor blade to scrape them off.

 

[Themaddhatter]

I have the same white spots you are talking about, and yes they are hard, need a razor blade to scrape them off.

That's the ones! I get the feeling they are similar to vermatid snails in that they form a calcified node to live in and probably filter feed from. My rock is also overrun with vermatid snails.

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[derrick orosz]

That's the ones! I get the feeling they are similar to vermatid snails in that they form a calcified node to live in and probably filter feed from. My rock is also overrun with vermatid snails.

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So they are a good thing ?

 

[Themaddhatter]

So they are a good thing ?

Pretty harmless, I thing. Just filter feeders

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