amphipodclarification

[minnowme]

hey I'm new this is my first post. Cool.
So, hello, I'm looking for good sources to buy Copepods and especially Amphipods. I've got a few good sources, but I just wanted to do some digging around into r2r and find out whatsup with the sources that I've been looking at but am unfarmiliar with. Any in depth detail to proove things different would very much rescue my question. Thankyou
Trust isuuses.
-Mike

 

[DSC reef]

Welcome to R2R Mike. A couple good places I would check is @Reef Nutrition and algae barn. #welcometor2r

 

[ihavecrabs]

Welcome to R2R!

I have a local shop that keeps a few cultures going. Algaebarn is great to work with also.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Welcome to R2R!!

I agree with @DSC reef , used reef nutrition in the past and have had really good luck with them algae barn is also a good source, and unique corals sells them from time to time as well

 

[mahindra.dev]

Welcome to R2R.

Agreed with @DSC reef @Crabs Mcjones Ive used Algaebarn before and im happy with the outcome. Btw you did not mention the sources that you are having trust issues with. I think its OK to name, cos we can either agree or disagree.

 

[Tft12]

I've always been happy with all my orders at Algeabarn.

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Welcome to R2R

 

[redfishbluefish]

Welcome @minnowme to R2R.

Good suggestions above. Don't know where you live, but also check your LFS. Some of them carry pods

 

[minnowme]

Thankyou everyone! I am the lone reefer in my neck of the woods. I think that R2R is where I needed to be the whole time I've been into this stuff. Small collection but nice frags I'm maintaining. I have not had any bad luck with pod trust issues, I'm just afraid to have one with unfarmiliar nouns. I really want to try Royalreefs, but am looking for more juicy reviews about the Amphipods to Copepod ratios on their package deals. Is anyone farmiliar enough with them to help me maybe trust that I'm going to be working with everything as it listed so beautifully? I'm farmiliar with algae barn, aquariumdepot, sachs system aquaculture, live aquaria, sustabainlenaquatics, and have no complaints. I've been into the whole saltwater aquarium stuff for maybe 13 months. Really looking for the Amphipod Heaven if there is one besides the places which I've mentioned. What do you guys think? Is Royalreef whatsup? They've got some cool looking corals. I'm extremely picky when it comes to ordering coral these days. ive got an amphipod population growing in my Sump refuge as well as a liverock culturing/quarantine tank. Not a lot. Maybe 50 to 100 Amphipods in both of them. SOMEBODY JUICE ME IN. It would be delicious. Thankyou.

-Meek

 

[minnowme]

Welcome @minnowme to R2R.

Good suggestions above. Don't know we're you live, but also check you LFS. Some of them carry pods

Thankyou there.
I can probably find cyano at my LFS. Lol

 

[minnowme]

Welcome to R2R!!

I agree with @DSC reef , used reef nutrition in the past and have had really good luck with them algae barn is also a good source, and unique corals sells them from time to time as well

Dude I love that minion gif. I just stared into it for an extended brief moment. Tripping me out. Lol hilarious

 

[themcfreak]

Welcome to R2R! I have ordered from Algaebarn, RoyalReefs, and MarineDepot before. Algaebarn is amazing. The bottle has so many floating around in the bag, and I trust their cleanliness (they base their claims on clean sources, great for the macro algae too!)

Edit: I have also used @reefnutrition and they are great too!

RoyalReef and Marine Depot both will send massive sized amphipods (not the ones you have to stare at a bottle to see the tiny ones moving) but big ones on a sponge. Both sources have come just fine. I think RoyalReefs had more dead ones, but there seemed to be quite a few more in the bag, to offset that?

Now that this is all typed, apparently I get around in the companies I bought pods from...

 

[minnowme]

Welcome to R2R Mike. A couple good places I would check is @Reef Nutrition and algae barn. #welcometor2r

I will definitley checkout reef nutrition. I may have browsed it in the past, but don't remember. Specifically Amphipod wise, are they the way to go? Thankyou also.
-Mighty Mike

 

[minnowme]

Reef Nutrition Tigger Pods look like the devil up close. Lol. Alien Vs Predator looking stuff.

 

[themcfreak]

Reef Nutrition Tigger Pods look like the devil up close. Lol. Alien Vs Predator looking stuff.

This? no, that isn't devilish.. oh wait.

 

[Fudsey]

Welcome to R2R ! ! !

 

[minnowme]

This? no, that isn't devilish.. oh wait.

Lol this is the photo which I was referring to as well lol. Giant needle back, would sting so bad

 

[MDandD]

Spent thousands on pods and can say this is the best without a doubt: floridapets(dot)com

Algae Barn can be wicked expensive but if you want isolate copepods, buy a good pack and dose the heck out of your tank with phyto.

The truth of the matter is that the tank will only support so many of any given thing (depending on food source, etc.) so if you have time, you can get away with a smaller purchase of pods and give them a few months or year to fill out population wise. Dirty tanks breed faster.

I am supporting a mandarin in a 110g display and costs me about $60 per month to keep freshly restocked and I keep a QT running specifically for breeding those and reintroducing them weekly via a sponge filter. The mandarin just eats like a beast and its a constant battle.

 

[CastAway]

Welcome @minnowme!

I’ve had good luck sustaining Gammarus in my system.

 

[minnowme]

Welcome @minnowme!

I’ve had good luck sustaining Gammarus in my system.

That is definitley me.