Adding copepods

[GHOSTLY]

So I want to add tigger pods to my tank like most people except I’m re adding them as I add more every 3 months. I have around 10 pounds of live rock in my tank and a fuge with live rock and chaeto in the back. I have a mandarin so should I add the bottle In the tank, fuge, or half and half?

 

[NoahLikesFish]

put it in the fuge at night

 

[MichaelReefer]

What size is your tank? Seems like to only have 10lbs of rock that is pretty small for enough Copepod production to feed a Mandarin. That guy will go through a bag of tigers in probably a few days.

 

[GHOSTLY]

13.g its trained on anything and everything. Its mainly for microfauna

 

[GHOSTLY]

Bump

 

[MarshallB]

At night, turn off the flow for a few minutes. You can do half in the tank, half in the fuge. Turning off the flow gives them a chance to find something to grab onto.

 

[Ricksreeefs]

I spay mine on the rocks when the lights are off

 

[GHOSTLY]

Will they Eat bottled, dead phyto

 

[Jay'sReefBugs]

Will they Eat bottled, dead phyto

Anything eats dead phytoplankton ( copepods, corals, amthipods) as long as it's not spoiled phytoplankton ( Yellow)

 

[Doctorgori]

Those lil bottles of pods are a partial rip of: you can double the amount with a shoebox full of phytoplankton and a few days,…..not so much of a rip off if you don’t have any…..
OTOH
for $30 a bottle I’d use those as a starter culture, then seed that tank with a more proper amount.

Otherwise you are quite literally feeding your mandarin food costing a about $2000 a pound (conservatively)

 

[GHOSTLY]

Those lil bottles of pods are a partial rip of: you can double the amount with a shoebox full of phytoplankton and a few days,…..not so much of a rip off if you don’t have any…..
OTOH
for $30 a bottle I’d use those as a starter culture, then seed that tank with a more proper amount.

Otherwise you are quite literally feeding your mandarin food costing a about $2000 a pound (conservatively)

Haha but little do you know im getting an entire thing of it not just a bottle. I plan to breed them but Im getting a LOT of them