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[Reef Nutrition]

reef nutrition!!!

Thanks for the shoutout. Little Tigger-Pods video for your entertainment!

 

[fryman]

I've not had success with the smaller suppliers for small copepods. They are usually heavily contaminated with ciliates or rotifers and sometimes don't even have significant number of the species advertised. In particular the smaller copepods like tisbe or parvocalanus.

i worry that customers just see little specs in the water and assume it's all good. Tigriopus don't seem to have this problem for some reason. But adult tig pods are big and orange so you can tell what they are pretty well with the unaided eye.

ime Reef Nutrition is actually selling viable copepods in their products, suitable as a starter culture.

 

[jurgenph]

today's trip to the LFS resulted in a bottle of apex pods from reef nutrition


J.

 

[Jay'sReefBugs]

I've not had success with the smaller suppliers for small copepods. They are usually heavily contaminated with ciliates or rotifers and sometimes don't even have significant number of the species advertised. In particular the smaller copepods like tisbe or parvocalanus.

i worry that customers just see little specs in the water and assume it's all good. Tigriopus don't seem to have this problem for some reason. But adult tig pods are big and orange so you can tell what they are pretty well with the unaided eye.

ime Reef Nutrition is actually selling viable copepods in their products, suitable as a starter culture.

Tig Pods are not naturally orange. They get orange pigments from carotenoids based on what they have available to eat .

 

[Reef Nutrition]

today's trip to the LFS resulted in a bottle of apex pods from reef nutrition


J.

Thanks so much for supporting your LFS. If you ever have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out.

Best,
Chad

 

[Reef Nutrition]

I've not had success with the smaller suppliers for small copepods. They are usually heavily contaminated with ciliates or rotifers and sometimes don't even have significant number of the species advertised. In particular the smaller copepods like tisbe or parvocalanus.

i worry that customers just see little specs in the water and assume it's all good. Tigriopus don't seem to have this problem for some reason. But adult tig pods are big and orange so you can tell what they are pretty well with the unaided eye.

ime Reef Nutrition is actually selling viable copepods in their products, suitable as a starter culture.

We appreciate the recognition and take great pride in being reliable and consistent. It's not easy to provide live feed organisms in quantities that people can rely on year after year.

Have a great week!

Best,
Chad

 

[fryman]

Tig Pods are not naturally orange. They get orange pigments from carotenoids based on what they have available to eat .

Interesting, I did not know that. They are definately orange in the bottles from reef nutrition, and they stayed orange for me in culture after many months. I use live phyto as feed, mix of tetraselmis, nannochloropsus (sp?), & isochrysis.

I only mentioned because it is distinctive among the diff pod cultures in my experience. The other species do not look so orange to me. I can tell which culture has tig pods easily by eye, the other ones pretty much look the same to my eye.

 

[Reef Nutrition]

Interesting, I did not know that. They are definately orange in the bottles from reef nutrition, and they stayed orange for me in culture after many months. I use live phyto as feed, mix of tetraselmis, nannochloropsus (sp?), & isochrysis.

I only mentioned because it is distinctive among the diff pod cultures in my experience. The other species do not look so orange to me. I can tell which culture has tig pods easily by eye, the other ones pretty much look the same to my eye.

They get pigmentation compounds (carotenoids) from the phytoplankton they eat and bioconvert them into astaxanthin which is red when accumulated. Tigriopus californicus are well-known for storing high quantities of carotenoids.