Yes I do have some amphipods but not too many, in fact I think I have only seen maybe half a dozen no doubt there are more though. I have seen them hiding in my Zoas but the zoas dont seem to care unless they scurry across the top of the polyp. The ones I was talking about are really tiny and white and can only be seen if on the glass. Some others are brown but still very very small I can only see them with a flash light and looking very carefully there are lots of those too they seem hrmless and my clowns love em.
Something has happened though the population has died way back in the last two days. I tried some aiptasia-X on a few very small patches that were sprouting up around the base of many of my LPS's. I won’t be using that stuff again or at least not very much. The following day after using it my DKH had dropped from 9.5 to 8 and calcium was off the chart. No doubt I used too much for what a 28 can handle. I had been using kalk paste which I’m guessing is most likely the main ingredient but without the applicator was having a really tough time getting at some of them. I got the aiptasia-X mostly for the applicator and to give it a try as it supposed to inhibit the aiptasia from releaseing its spores. It says it completely reef safe (but in what quantities?) it doesn’t say anything about that. My own fault for being too trusting.
I know it was the aiptasia-X that did it as it was the only change that had been made. I had just done a water change the day prior and tested all parameters I never need to dose for at least two days after a water change and my CA was around 460-480ppm, DKH at 9.5. Anyway I did a 20% water change last night and turned my lights down a bit and that brought DKH up to around 9 and calcium down to 500ppm. Will do another 20% change tonight which hopefully will bring everything back where I normally keep it. Seems the sudden change in alk and CA (may) have contributed to what looks like minimal bleaching at the tips of my acros and monties that was the reason for turning my light down a bit (however I did recently change my carbon so it could have just been the clarity of the water and light intensity). Also every coral in my tank was closed as tightly as I have ever seen them. I noticed this morning though some have started to open again and my torch coral as come out a little and is puffing up again.
Too many factors at play here especially for a small tank to know for sure but perhaps that’s where some of the pods went. I know my fire shrimp and crabs seemed a little lethargic and didn’t really go after food they way they usually do. I added a pepermint shrimp in hopes he'll go after any remaining aiptasia. The fire shrimp seems a little ticked off that hes there so we'll just see what happens with that they my duke it out. Who knows.
Thanks to all who have posted!
