NoPoX & Copepod Bloom

dyno · Mar 16, 2021

Started using NoPoX a week or so ago and I have so many copepods now. Curious to know why this would occur? I was using too much NoPoX and I had an algae bloom, fish were literally breathless and had me worried for a while. Anyway cut the dose in half and all is well now.

Fish Think Pink · Mar 16, 2021

dyno said:
Started using NoPoX a week or so ago and I have so many copepods now. Curious to know why this would occur? I was using too much NoPoX and I had an algae bloom, fish were literally breathless and had me worried for a while. Anyway cut the dose in half and all is well now.

Glad all is better now. Use NoPoX sparingly and test your parameters as you never want to reach 0, just hover above.

copepods were feasting on algae bloom. AlgaeBarn recommends feeding copepods with phyto, but your algae bloom was free algae for copepods

FYI: I dose NoPoX manually as needed, but since I have higher phosphates, I also dose Blue Vet Phosphate Rx (way sparingly - I have sailfin & yellow tangs)

ca1ore · Mar 16, 2021

Sample size of one does not causation make ....... might just be a coincidence or it could in fact be that algae bloom means more food. I have not heard that NoPox increases pods. Perhaps others can chime in.

DE FISH · Mar 16, 2021

Totally unrelated

Randy Holmes-Farley · Mar 16, 2021

dyno said:
Started using NoPoX a week or so ago and I have so many copepods now. Curious to know why this would occur? I was using too much NoPoX and I had an algae bloom, fish were literally breathless and had me worried for a while. Anyway cut the dose in half and all is well now.

Sounds like you overdosed?

Algae bloom? What color? Maybe a bacteria bloom?

Copepods may eat suspended bacteria, but a week seems a short time for a population rise from a bloom that itself was only caused no more than a week ago.

Pistondog · Mar 16, 2021

Maybe the conditions that caused the problems for your fish aggravated the copepods enough to escape their normal hidey holes to the glass or water column where you perceived the bloom?