I was planning on buying the stuff to feed them with from Algae Barn when I order the pods.
~Shaun K.
So I need fish first? I was trying to get a good pod population before I added fish.As soon as your tank is cycled, you have some algae growth, fish added and parameters are stable
Need... not necessarily, but helpful to give the critters a steady food supply.
Ok Thank you all for the information!
I have not ordered the pods yet but when I do I do plan on getting the Phytoplankton to feed them with. That’s what I was thinking. I was trying to grow a population of pods before adding the fish to avoid the Detritus. I have not decided between @AlgaeBarn and @Reef Nutrition. Anyone have recommendations?
You will not avoid detritus by adding pods. Helps manage some wast but by no means will they ever eliminate detritus. They in turn will be creating detritus by eating viable nutrients within the detritus... Just a FYI...
I just got some Posiden's feast and OceanMagik from Algeabarn and was very happy. The reason I mention detritus is that pods can be an important part of a well rounded clean-up crew. They eat more than the phyto, but you won't have any fish poop for them to eat so adding a food is even more important. Phyto will add to your bioload and can increase your phos and trates so monitor them and ramp up like the bottle says. It really is magic though, my corals go insane for the stuff when I dump it in once a day.
Yea I figured that, just thought it wouldn’t be as bad as adding fish. Trying to avoid a horrible algae bloom while starting the tank
The only way to avoid an algae bloom is to have fully cycled live rock and low nutrients. Pods, IMHO, will do very little to help avoid algae. They are just a small piece of the overall ecosystem puzzle.
No I get that. That’s why I am trying to add them before fish alittle less detritus than fish would produce.
That's an awesome question. I couldn't really figure it out. I mean I know they are different species of pods but I have no idea why one is more desirable over another. I bought the P-Feast because it seemed like the most popular mix of pods, and I have added Tisbe pods before from another source. Figured a little genetic diversity couldn't hurt.
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I can speak to the customer service at AlgaeBarn and had the same early addition of pods thought you are having. The pods and Oceanmagik (phyto) arrived well packaged and on time. That is saying something in this supply chain environment. I'll let you know how it goes and I just added them (candidly a bit early but hopefully not detrimentally early.) And Shaun says its "ok" as long as they have food! (post 5)
