Ricordia Florida

[roidan]

hi all,

i noticed some lice-like things near my floridas that look like pods or amphipods....

and a few floridas seem to have been eaten up slowly by them....coz i see the wriggly things moving around the floridas....

issit really possible that the pods eat floridas??

[CalciumReef]

eaten up??take a pic to show us

[DeepBlue]

sure not baby slugs???

[roidan]

look like these leh...

those i circled

[roidan]

they are around my sump like armies...i even see them fighting each other head to head...

dunno leh....

[bwilly]

eh.. my wife tik I surfin porno webby.. see the monitor so near n intense.. haha.. !

I no idea leh..

[DeepBlue]

I think everyone with ricordea at home will start doing that now...I go check mine later before I sleep

[sunny03]

i think they are sea lice if i not wrong

[roidan]

sea lice????

wah liew...must isolate my rics from the sandbed liao....

[roidan]

oh wow! how many floridas have they eaten already. I think I better run go see mine if have any

a few leh...they shrink and i see some of these creepy crawlies around..all along i tot they were harmless pods....

is different from melting....i better move them up to the main tank tomorrow on the rockworks...

or maybe the pods crawl all over the floridas and they get irritated by the pods moving on top of them....so they shrink but i notice some of the edges like got eaten marks leh...

[sunny03]

that i think only might not be truth cos the shape look like and is the colour white in colour ??

[roidan]

bro joe:

any idea? got any cases of pods eating floridas or not..hehe

[ah^siao]

sorry bro.. hijack abit..

wad type of lighting is good enough for rics and yumas?

PLs? or t5? or must be MH?

temp must be at 26 ar?

[DeepBlue]

IMO.....T5 enough liaoz

[hamannbmw]

i had that in my tank too..... dunno wats that..., but all my corals seems ok......

[Achilles Tang]

Tried enlarging and sharpening... but still can't really make it out... can you shoot in high res... and do a crop? Use macro mode.

Looks like a copepod to me.

[CalciumReef]

Copepods!I have them all over my tank walls..they dun disturb rics at all

[roidan]

Copepods!I have them all over my tank walls..they dun disturb rics at all

yeah..that was what i tot all along.....then i notice them very near..or even under the ricordia frags hiding....so i begun to suspect they eating ricordias for banquet dinner...LOL

cant really get any better pics...they are really quite small...lol...

anyway, i think they are pods too..

[FuEl]

Amphipod..those look exactly like the stuff that comes out from my canister after power d/c....

[roidan]

ok...so everyone here can confirm that watever pods whether copepods or amphipods are not meat eaters hor......hehe

[FuEl]

Get a scooter or mandarin

your problems will be solved.

I would suggest scooters...easier to wean onto frozen food.

[Achilles Tang]

They are eating detritus and stuff around your corals.. that's all... they won't eat corals... if something is eating your corals... I suspect shrimps... do you have hungry camel or skunk shrimps?

[roidan]

They are eating detritus and stuff around your corals.. that's all... they won't eat corals... if something is eating your corals... I suspect shrimps... do you have hungry camel or skunk shrimps?

ok....thats what i tot all along...that they are harmless little stuff the scurries around....

no shrimps around......no crabs even....just rics and clams....

think i get a mandarin to keep the population in check..hehe

a spotted mandarin seems cute ;P they dun shift sand as much as gobies also

[nutx]

This happen in your sump tank, right?

Any problem with your clams?

Could be some kind of mushroom disease that is spreading inside, and the pods is just happened to be around?

[roidan]

This happen in your sump tank, right?

Any problem with your clams?

Could be some kind of mushroom disease that is spreading inside, and the pods is just happened to be around?

no problem with clams...

most rics are fine..just a few that i see them not in good shape...maybe just a one-off thing....got myself worried..hehe

probably dip some in iodide solution and see how....