Copepods culturing
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Yes.
If you run any filter floss or socks that will kill them off.
You need to decide on what type of pods. You will need to feed them. Your clown and corals will eat them.
Smaller pods and water swimming/ living need phyto to eat. Larger pods like amphipods will live in the rock and eat film algae.
If you run any filter floss or socks that will kill them off.
You need to decide on what type of pods. You will need to feed them. Your clown and corals will eat them.
Smaller pods and water swimming/ living need phyto to eat. Larger pods like amphipods will live in the rock and eat film algae.
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It depends on how many and how often you wish to harvest. If you put an aquarium sponge in the tank, you just pick it up and shake the passengers off in the 60g and return the sponge.
Reef Nutrition uses 300 micron sieves to harvest their tigger adults and 90 to catch everything else. Not all will go through the filter and not all will die with the pump, but that is a consideration.
If you really want to cultivate, it's easier to use a clean dedicated tank/vessel/container that you can catch the pods and change the water. Most people will dose phyto to a pale green and when that clears dose again. The reason for a complete water change is that they produce waste and this can crash with amonia
here is one of the better threads of the subject
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Reef Nutrition uses 300 micron sieves to harvest their tigger adults and 90 to catch everything else. Not all will go through the filter and not all will die with the pump, but that is a consideration.
If you really want to cultivate, it's easier to use a clean dedicated tank/vessel/container that you can catch the pods and change the water. Most people will dose phyto to a pale green and when that clears dose again. The reason for a complete water change is that they produce waste and this can crash with amonia
here is one of the better threads of the subject
Tigger & Tisbe Pods
I have been noticing more and more people talking about pods. Whether it be for a certain fish or just a CUC (clean up crew). I HIGHLY recommend getting the Tisbe pods in your tank after it is cycled. They can live in a home aquarium best from what I read or heard by word of mouth along the way...
www.reef2reef.com
Is there a way to do a water change in the tank you are culturing pods in without losing that many?
from what advice has been posted on here I’ve turned pumps off and removed them, added an air pump instead on low, removed corals and clownfish, left 2 pieces of rock and put a sponge in
from what advice has been posted on here I’ve turned pumps off and removed them, added an air pump instead on low, removed corals and clownfish, left 2 pieces of rock and put a sponge in
I think starting a sterile new tank would have been your best bet for culturing the pods so they don't get lost in the tank, and made two cultures just in case one crashes. If you have already added the pods don't do this but if you haven't I would also take out all the sand and rocks
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were did you get those podsI’ve got this
Will the pump kill them? if so I can just add a airline or something like that
How often do I add the photo and how much?
