Not only will they not hurt any fish, they are very beneficial to your
system. They are scavengers and help keep the tank clean of excess foods,
fish waste and algae. You are lucky to have a healthy copepod population,
especially if you medicated the tank. One thing to think about is an
explosion of copepods can signify excess foods in the tank. You may want to
consider cutting your feedings down a bit when you get fish back in the tank
(depending on how much you were feeding).
FWIW/IMO
Shane C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco Delsordo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 10:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Serious Copepod problem!?
>
> Theo:
> Copepods are small creatures that will not harm your fishes in any way (or
> at least the ones that live in my tank), as far as i know they get into
> the tank with the live rock or the substrate, usually you won�t see lots
> of them because your fishes control their population by eating each and
> every one they see. What is happening in your tank is due to the abscence
> of fishes, they reproduce out of control and with the abscence of
> predators the population will continue to plague your tank.
> The only thing you need to do is to introduce fishes, they will do all the
> work. Mandarin fishes feed mostly on copepods, any wrasse will also help.
> Don�t worry, copepods live in all tanks although we don�t see them many
> times.
> Marco
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Theo Bosdas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Viernes, 24 de Agosto de 2001 12:33 p.m.
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Serious Copepod problem!?
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Maybe the list is not the appropriate to describe the problem I
> currently have in an aquarium, but I'm looking desperately for an advice.
> So I would deeply appreciate if you could help me with the following
> problem:
> I have a 120gal marine only tank with just a few corals and fishes
> in it. Unfortunately, a disease appeared in the aquarium, and after a
> short period, even if I followed some medication (invert-safe), I lost all
> of my fishes. I moved the corals to a quarantine tank where they continue
> to thrive. During this period, no other fish was added. However, I
> installed a UV lamp.
> What happened, is that after a couple of weeks copepods (probably of
> the genus calanoid copepod) appeared out of the blue in the aquarium.
> Since then, they have "colonized" my tank.
>
> What can I do to get rid of this creatures?
> Could they become dangerous to my future live stock?
> Are there any fishes which could "take care" of them?
> Is there any chance the copepods could strike back, i.e. appear
> again for a particular reason that I;m ignorant of?
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance for your immediate reply,
>
>
> Theo
>
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