Dilemma - Too many pods

[WesleyC]

In case you are interested to see my pods in action (literally)... Parental guidance is advised.


Some more pods video on my display tank:

Baby Copepod Nauplii on the display tank wall. Special thanks to a couple of adult copepods dropped by to give you a size reference.

 

[dburkart]

Red Scooter Blenny's are the best. They cruise all over the tank and look as though they are just floating through the water. They are really cute as you can see by my avatar.

 

[WesleyC]

Nice! I'm really looking forward to get a pair of them now. I've never seen one live. I'm a bit afraid they can't handle the two MP40 at each end of the tank.

 

[WesleyC]

An army of munnid isopods cleaning up a dirty coral plug. *** Warning! Video contain graphic contents. Pods on algae violence!

 

[wowkingjames]

Following...

 

[Flippers4pups]

Interesting!

 

[WesleyC]

Saw a pair of Ruby Red Dragonet in Liveaquaria Divers's Den. Just about to buy them and they were gone. Someone else bought it... Guess I'll have to wait a bit.

 

[Flippers4pups]

This coming weekend I'm buying more supplies for my phytoplankton culturing and expansion of my copepod cultures. Have fun with it now!

 

[WesleyC]

Awesome!

From helping out my local reefers here, number one thing I've noticed is that one must keep the phyto culture like lab equipment and experiment. Has to keep everything sterile clean, or the culture will be getting weaker and weaker, and eventually just getting yellow water.

 

[WesleyC]

In the meantime, watch one of my big pods chewing on a macro algae.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Awesome!

From helping out my local reefers here, number one thing I've noticed is that one must keep the phyto culture like lab equipment and experiment. Has to keep everything sterile clean, or the culture will be getting weaker and weaker, and eventually just getting yellow water.

Yep, been reading up intensely on it.

 

[Reefbuds]

Wild man!

 

[cracker]

Very cool & interesting !

 

[Larry L]

I have 2 pods culture tanks. One for copepods (Tisbe biminiensis) and amphipods, and a mix pods with munnid isopods, copepods (Parvocalanus crassirostris), and amphipods, .

Hi Wesley, what are you feeding to the Munnid isopod culture? I just started up a new tank with live rock and have a population explosion of Munnid isopods that hitchhiked on the rock, so I wanted to try to collect some and see if I can keep a separate population going.

 

[WesleyC]

They love algae. So, when you do water change for the main tank, keep the dirty water for the pod tank. I put flakes into the pod tank and the other bigger pods eat them. The left over make the tank even higher nutrition and glow more algae on the tank wall. And you'll see the Munid isopods all over it.

They tends to hang out on the tank wall where algae glows. So, it's quite hard to transport them to a different tank. Seems to be either by chance that they are on some live rock or on the coral or coral plugs, and got transported.