{"id":275,"date":"2013-12-07T03:38:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T08:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=275"},"modified":"2015-06-21T00:57:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T04:57:50","slug":"marine-amphipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2013\/12\/07\/marine-amphipod\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Amphipod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The marine <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amphipoda\" title=\"Amphipoda\" target=\"_blank\">amphipods<\/a> that live in most reef aquariums are amazing creatures that look like tiny little shrimp.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_288\" style=\"width: 966px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MarineAmphipod.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MarineAmphipod.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a marine amphipod.\" width=\"956\" height=\"422\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MarineAmphipod.jpg 956w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MarineAmphipod-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marine Amphipod from the Refugium of my Reef Aquarium<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>In general they are beneficial to a reef tank and reef aquarists do want to provide them with a place to breed in peace (e.g. a  refugium). They scavenge and eat detritus in the tank thus help keep it clean.<br \/>\nThey also serve as food for the fish and other tank inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_sMbTaWbBX8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reefkeeping.com\/issues\/2004-09\/rs\/\" title=\"Amphipods\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read article about amphipods in the on line Reefkeeping magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marine amphipods that live in most reef aquariums are amazing creatures that look like tiny little shrimp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,12,26,28,18,22,31,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}