Copepod extraction
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Are you transferring rock from old tank to new tank?
Hey! The pictures are really bad because my phone wouldn’t focus on them, but how can I get all these copepods out of my old tank into my new one?
Usually it does not take much or many to seed a new tank, if you have any macro going from this to new you'll be seeding new tank and they will reproduce pretty quick.
Also yeah, agree, if adding any rock they will come w/ that too.
Also yeah, agree, if adding any rock they will come w/ that too.
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Mordie101
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I’m not adding the rocks, I was about to break the tank down and finish moving corals into new tank to turn the biocube into a quarantine tank and saw all the pods in there..
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Mordie101
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Mmmmm that could work?
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Mordie101
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Not a bad idea either
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If you have some time put something like this on the floor of your old tank. The pods will infiltrate the stuff and you can then place that in your new tank.
https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/eheim-fix-mechanical-filter-media.html
https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/eheim-fix-mechanical-filter-media.html
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Or one of these things. The pods will colonize and then move it over. Then you can just keep this in the new sump and occasionally feed copepods to the tank by shaking it in the display then returning to sump to repopulate.
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Mordie101
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Or one of these things. The pods will colonize and then move it over. Then you can just keep this in the new sump and occasionally feed copepods to the tank by shaking it in the display then returning to sump to repopulate.
That’s a really good idea
