I culture tigriopus californicus (250-1700 microns) and find these to be easy. Most important part of my culture is salinity about 1.020 helps them breed fastest. I feed mine only powdered spirulina, with a bit of banana skin/peel in a tiny beverage container. I use a light only to encourage them to rise up in the water column so when I scoop them out to feed to my tanks and replenish pods in my tanks, then since they are off their food, if I am quick yet careful I pull out less sprulina in the 'brine shrimp sized' nets I use. Mine almost never get phyto, but it is an optional treat they get. I don't raise phyto - I've found that to be hard. I've found pods to be easy and even let me be lazy about taking care of them. Mine are tough little critters!
2nd attempt at raising tig pods is officially underway. Original attempt was outdoor lazy banana leaf method I found online - that is still underway but seems to be failing. Suspect Texas temperature and full day direct sunshine is too much, but that pod culture experiment still underway. 2nd...
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