Growing copepods and their needs

[MaxtheCat]

I bought a little 7 gallon cube with a good Fluval light in hopes of growing another copepod colony in our garage. I‘m culturing phyto to feed them. Do I need to filter this water? I was going to use an air stone. I was hoping to give them chaeto to live in but wouldn’t that need filtration? Any tips for me?

 

[Astro]

Following. Cool af idea!

 

[MaxtheCat]

Following. Cool af idea!

Well hold on now! This might *not* be a good idea yet ;Wacky

 

[Smokeshow]

I picked up a 20gal during the last petco sale in the intentions of making a pod tank. I cultivate my own phytoplankton as well. Will have about 1" on sand and rock rubble on the bottom. Medium sponge filter and a 1/2 cup of chaeto. Just need to build the stand for it.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

I haven't used a filter on my copapod culture. Just a slow air pump and a small live rock. I also used bottle/dead phyto and the occasion pinch of reef roids and the pods did just fine

 

[Lukey2018]

Hi, this is one of my first posts on R2R. I have a 10gal little tank that in using for breeding copepods. There are THOUSANDS of them in there at the moment. The problem I have is that they all seem to just spend the whole time stuck to the glass. So I'm just wondering if I could get some suggestions on how to get them from the little tank to my display?

 

[Mikedawg]

Hi, this is one of my first posts on R2R. I have a 10gal little tank that in using for breeding copepods. There are THOUSANDS of them in there at the moment. The problem I have is that they all seem to just spend the whole time stuck to the glass. So I'm just wondering if I could get some suggestions on how to get them from the little tank to my display?

YouTube has several good videos on harvesting pods; might check there

 

[crappie]

Pics

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Hi, this is one of my first posts on R2R. I have a 10gal little tank that in using for breeding copepods. There are THOUSANDS of them in there at the moment. The problem I have is that they all seem to just spend the whole time stuck to the glass. So I'm just wondering if I could get some suggestions on how to get them from the little tank to my display?

You might see a ton on the glass but I bet if you strained some of the water through a coffee filter you'd have lots of pods in there. Then just dip the coffee filter into your main tank

 

[Lukey2018]

Thankyou for the answers, I'll give those suggestions a try

 

[sherb]

I'm following this lo-fi approach for raising pods: https://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/about-us/articles/raising-live-rotifers-copepods/

The idea here is to keep it as simple as possible with a couple of 5-gallon buckets, a small air pump, salt water, phyto, and of course your starter dose of pods. I'm about a week into it, and all is good so far.