Mandarin/Seahorse live food?

[PHYTO4LIFE]

Been thinking of culturing Tiger pods and Nitokra lacustris

Is there anything else that might survive 75F tank conditions that might benifit me that are of different size or behavoir then tigerpod/Nitokra lacustris?

Amphipod is this worth culturing?

I will be heavy dosing phytoplankton and some/little bit of fishmush on 90G with a 50G above DT refuge total 225G system
and if amhpipod will multiply enough in population I would like to culture maybe another type of zooplankton but not mysids yet?

[PHYTO4LIFE]

I was thinking of those they seems vary easy to culture thanks

was wondering if culturing the amphipod and the first 2 mentioned that maybe if I kept mysids in population
in the 50G refuge that it might help some baby/younger mysids to make it to adult hood since there will be more for the mysid to prey upon?

I heard they are predatory and eat their young sometimes is it their young or would maybe having some other zooplankton interest them as well?

[PHYTO4LIFE]

Cool I will look into this what I did notice which was weird was that when I mass dosed phyto is that I never really seen the adult mysid shrimp but thousands of young mysids would i be possibly mistaken them for something else they did swim and act like little mysids?

are amphipods predatory?

[PHYTO4LIFE]

Sounds good

I'm going to look into culturing amphipods

["Umm, fish?"]

are amphipods predatory?

Predatory on what? Everything's predatory on something when you get down to it. EDIT: Heck, I'm predatory on tacos. :) END OF EDIT. Amphipods certainly eat eggs of various species if they can find them. In fact, while pulling out filefish eggs last night, I managed to pull out a whole bunch of amphipods that were probably there to eat the eggs.

On the other hand, they are _very_ good at eating uneaten fish foods and make great feeder animals for mandarins.

[PHYTO4LIFE]

LOL

after you told me about my 30 hermits as eating eggs I got rid of them amphipods seem to be a better alternative as a scavengers then hermits they seem to be able to get into spots without moving all my small coral frags around

Any chance that maybe sun polyps might eat them?

Also added alot of rock rubble behind rock work with a gentle flow I'm thinking they will com in handy to for getting into the smalll areas where there is reduced flow

["Umm, fish?"]

Well, they are hard on eggs, too, but you can keep their population down if you need with predation. I think that sun polyps will eat anything they can get their tentacles on, but live amphipods seem to know to avoid them. I like to use a blender mush with sun polyps because I can spray it with a baster and it makes feeding really fast.