Not sure what to do here. I have a 100 Reef with sump, established, 200 lbs live rock + I was gone for the week and returned to see my Candy Cane starting to die off around the edges and shrink up. All other LPS look fine with the exception of my finger leather. So I stayed up most of the night and watched under a red light (no red bugs thankgod!) and i saw my amphipods and copepods crawling all over these two for some reason (like tons all over the tops of my candy canes). Nothing new to the tank or added in the past 6months but I have noticed my pod population to increase dramatically. I wasn't expected this? Usually they are all over the rocks, etc. but this is the first i've seen them all over my corals. Any suggestions? I don't think they were eating it, but cerainly keeping them from extending and feeding. I'm thinking this is what is casuing them to shirvel soem and you can start to see the skeleton show under them. Man I have tons of these that come out at night. Some threads say to feed the pods, I see a few cases where some say they have been eating candy cane corals and some softies, I was going to take them off the LR and move them in the tank so see if thats helps. Do I get a mandarine? I tested and all water perimeters and they were spot on. I dose for Alk, Cac, and Mag. My Alk was little low at 165 so I added to 178 last night. Mag is 1450 and Calc is 460 ppm. All other are zero including Phosphate. Any suggestions? Thanks!!!