"George Patterson" wrote in message newsgZEh.2521$QI4.1557@trnddc01...
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.

I think hermit crabs will decimate a pod population, since the crabs and pods are most active at night.