Chaeto reactor for chaeto and copepods?

[Madonia]

I bought a media reactor and plan to use it to grow chaeto with led strip lights wrapped around it.

I don’t have room for a refugium (all in one tank). I want to try to grow copepods in the chaeto reactor.

has anyone been successful with this? Any tips?

I feel like there may be too much flow for the copepods inside of the media reactor?
Just got a mandarin and want to increase my copepod population. Tank is a 32gallon biocube.

thanks

 

[Auquanut]

I feel like there may be too much flow for the copepods inside of the media reactor?

I always kind of thought the same thing. Seems like the pod population might get pumped out faster than they can repopulate. Following.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

evening,

Not sure which reactor you have, can you dial back the flow?. I have a Vertex that has a ball valve on the inlet. It allows for fine tuning. Usually you want to have some type of flow control on a reactor since not every media has the same recommended flow rate.

 

[Madonia]

evening,

Not sure which reactor you have, can you dial back the flow?. I have a Vertex that has a ball valve on the inlet. It allows for fine tuning. Usually you want to have some type of flow control on a reactor since not every media has the same recommended flow rate.

Sure can on mine, got the aqua top MR20