Add Homonym wrote:

Do you have much in the way of small bristle worms, or an overly
aggressive cleanup crew? You need to have a fair amount of deritus
present in the tank for the pods to thrive. Adding supplemental algae
will help as well.

I've got quite a few bristle worms. I also have several blue-legged hermit crabs
and one large electric blue hermit. A bunch of little starfish and some sort of
small snail arrived as hitchhikers. I have lots of algae since I upgraded my
lighting; I'm using a phosphate reactor to try to cut it down some.

You may want to try culturing pods - 1 single mandarin can clean out a
whole tank quite easily. I used to do this by having a 10 gal with some
small rocks in it which cycled, then added tiger pods to.

I'll look into that. I have a 10 gallon with a pair of goldfish in it
downstairs. Once it warms up enough to sneak those into someone's pond, that'll
give me something for pods. A 'fuge is way down the road right now.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.