amphipod take over

[tunicata]

Hi,
So, all of a sudden I've noticed an uprising of amphipods in my tank. I saw about 4 tiny ones this morning. What is bothersome is that I saw those 4 hanging out in my 'wall hammer coral' (instead of branching type coral).
The issue comes in that two days ago, the section they were sitting in had 'barely alive/trying to regrow' baby coral heads. NOW its empty, with a growth of 1 gray blob. It looks like a blob of gametes.

I know they aren't 'bad' for the tank, BUT I'd like to know what happened to the re-growing coral tentacles. I've seen the amphipods 'cleaning' my zoo's and 'chilling' out on LR but...eh, so...seeing as the tentacles were there, and now aren't ...
Innocent until proven guilty?

 

[Deanos]

Amphipods will eat dead/dying coral flesh.

 

[tunicata]

so even though the tentacles, looked okay and vibrant to me, this isn't a big issue? I was under the wrong impression towards the hammer's recovery?

 

[yiliyang]

If you are worried, put a wrasse in your tank, 6 line would work well, he will keep the pods number down. I have not seen them bother my stuff, I actually like them a lot, they look like little horses running around on my LR.

 

[muntai]

dont blame the dead hammer on your ampies. they just cleaning up the decay.

 

[Paul B]

This is how many amphipods I threw in my ref last week.

If they were eating coral, I would have a big problem.
Yesterday we collected them almost by the pound.