Pod Extraction???

[xeon]

I went to visit a local reefer lately and came away with a few nice corals and some live sand. The corals are great, but the rocks they were attached to had a few aitapasia(sp?) and some grape caulerpa. These are two things I don't think I wanted to introduce to my display tank.

I tried cleaning the rock to no avail... the macro and aitapasia are kind of stubborn. I did the boiling water, kalk paste and etc. to the aitapasia with no luck. So I transplanted the corals to some small pieces of rock I had in my sump, which seems to be working out pretty well. The corals are happy. There is one aitapasia on the base of one of the leathers though... drats!

Now the rocks the corals came on have many bristle worms and amphipods. Worms are easy with tweezers, but... I'd really like to get the amp's in my display tank for variety, but I'm not sure how to extract them off the rocks they are on. Right now I have them in a bucket. Any ideas appreciated.

 

[Anonymous]

Bait them into a sponge. Get a sponge with large pores..like a natural sponge. Put some nori and a piece of shrimp in the middle. Leave it in the dark for a few hours and them statch it out quick before they scamper back to their rocks.

This might work, but I have never tried it myself.

Good luck

 

[ChrisRD]

I've used a turkey baster to suck-up pods out of the refugium to give to others. That might work for you...

 

[xeon]

Thanks for the ideas, I was doing a plastic spoon scooping thing last night which wasn't exactly working out the best. Sucking them off the rocks didn't seem to work too well either. Those little amphipods sure do love their rock, LOL.

 

[andycook]

Keep the pods. Your fish will eat them.

 

[Anonymous]

... he was trying to get the *pods out to put in his display tank, not getting rid off them...

 

[andycook]

Sorry, sounded like a pod-hater. I've had good luck moving pods with a siphon.

 

[Anonymous]

> I've had good luck moving pods with a siphon.

That's what I do when a reef buddy of mine want some of the *pods that I have.