What eats copepods?

KurtG wrote:
I'll get it for you (I'm at work)

Capelin Roe - w/ brand name "Sushikko"

"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.

"KurtG" wrote in message .. .
KurtG wrote:
I'll get it for you (I'm at work)

Capelin Roe - w/ brand name "Sushikko"

Thank you.

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


Hm, hermit crabs were already on my bad list.

I did buy some blue legged hermits which seem much better behaved, and
haven't attacked any of my snails yet.

--Kurt

"KurtG" wrote in message ...
Yukon wrote:
I think hermit crabs will decimate a pod population, since the crabs and pods are most active at night.


Hm, hermit crabs were already on my bad list.

I did buy some blue legged hermits which seem much better behaved, and haven't attacked any of my snails yet.

--Kurt

I just think that since crabs are carnivores, and you see them reaching
and picking into rocks all the time, that they'd love pods.

I don't think that hermit crabs will have any effect
on pod populations. I think they are too hard for
the hermits to catch.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Yukon wrote on 2/27/2007 1:50 PM:

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

"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message news
I don't think that hermit crabs will have any effect on pod populations. I think they are too hard for the hermits to catch.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Yukon wrote on 2/27/2007 1:50 PM:

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

You could be right. I just thought that they could reach into some of the
nooks and cranies in the rock and pinch some out. It just seems that whenever
I have a higher crab population, the pods are much less noticible when the
lights come on. But it could just be that the pods hide more when they sense
more crabs around? Does that make any sense? Maybe I should just stop typing now.

a Court Jester goby,

I`m a little late on this thread---sorry. The court jester goby is a
Rainford`s Goby, right? Does he constantly bite the substrate and sift
through his gills?

I`m pretty sure those guys are voracious pod eaters. I have a Hector`s Goby,
which is very closely related and shares the same behavior. When I
researched buying him I read somewhere that when disected, their stomach
contents revealed something like 70% copepods.

PS---

Ive had my Hectors Goby for over 5 months, and it`s never eaten any
"fishfood", frozen or otherwise. All Ive ever seen it do is pick off the
rock, filter sand and eat Hair algae when I had it (PAST TENSE BABY!).

Does the Rainford ever eat prepared foods?


"StringerBell" wrote in message
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a Court Jester goby,

I`m a little late on this thread---sorry. The court jester goby is a
Rainford`s Goby, right? Does he constantly bite the substrate and sift
through his gills?

I`m pretty sure those guys are voracious pod eaters. I have a Hector`s
Goby, which is very closely related and shares the same behavior. When I
researched buying him I read somewhere that when disected, their stomach
contents revealed something like 70% copepods.

StringerBell wrote:

I`m a little late on this thread---sorry. The court jester goby is a
Rainford`s Goby, right? Does he constantly bite the substrate and sift
through his gills?

Yep, that's the guy.

I`m pretty sure those guys are voracious pod eaters.

Thanks. I can probably get store credit for him.

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