Pod Control

Why do you want them to go away? They're good to have, most fish will pick at them when they feel like it.

 

Then use a sponge and clean off your glass hehehe

 

well mandarin gobies eat them but you already know about them and your size tank isn't big enough to sustain enough pods for them to eat.

 

CoralBeauties love pods. They will make short work of them.

 

Fu man chu lionfish

 

That one is poisonous! Apparently, water changes etc require a thick rubber glove.

 

You need to get a mandarin goby. The only feed on copods. I have them in my tank, and they are beautiful fish, and have lots of color.

T

 

Lionfish wont bother with copepods! mAYBE an occassional floating amphipod here and there! Dont be also concerned about your pod population. They are something you want, as they consume incredible amounts of detritus and other algaes. They also serve as a diet suplementation to lots of fish. Dont worry about providing enough algae for your cleaning crew, I have seen your tank, you have enough LR to grow enough algae to all your crew! Go ahead and clean your glass! You can displace some of the population from the glass is by adding some macro algae sheets on the LR for the pods to feed on it!

 

Lionfish are poisonous on their spines! If you touch the tips of them you might get stung! No biggie, just put your hand on as hot as you can stand water and this will break the poison appart and you'll be ok! You dont need rubber gloves to do water changes nor to feed them!