Mmm I don't know if BRS is lying to me or not. But anyways I would like to be able to keep pods alive. Not too worried about diatoms. Just want to understand the pod situation.
I'm telling you as everyone else in this thread is telling you you have pods. They hide during the day in rocks and rubble especially in the presence of fish. You may not even see tons of them at night. Your tank will sustain the quantity it can currently sustain based on available food. Idk why people come to threads to ask questions of people who have done this before to argue with them.
By now there should be millions. It's a TINY tank, I can see my rubble and sandbed through the glass with a loupe. There is not a single one to see after a few days after adding. Don't you find that weird? When I first add them they are incredible easy to spot. They are all over the place. mostly on walls bu also stone and rubble.
So, if the pods are tigger pods they almost certainly won’t colonize. I cultured these things for a few months, added them to the tank daily. Must have added hundreds of thousands of them. A day or so after and they’re all gone.Yeah as I said to another in here. I'm not too worried about algae. But I would like to keep pods alive and therefore understand why I can't.
I do have snails
They will not survive in large quantities in a tiny tank without a refugium. There is some amount of die off, some amount of predation (clownfish eat pods. Regardless of if you're observing it or not they are a species that occasionally pecks away at pods). Your tank will sustain the population that can survive in this sized tank. Tiger pods as another commentator said don't reproduce super well in our tanks, but you'd still likely have a small population. Tisbe and apoc pods are more prolific. Adding the bottle is meant to be a seeding event. What you're describing isn't weird at all.
At 3 months tank age, you have a very unstable undeveloped biome so not surprising tiny life is not established yet in your tank. I wouldn't worry about it. If you do your part they will eventually establish very well as your tank matures.I don't and I study the tank with a loupe also. They are not there
Okay so this is actually really helpful, thank you. Thank you for not just saying that I do have pods in there when I don't
So most probably I have been adding tigger pods and they don't reproduce and therefore the population die off, rigth? That makes sense to me. So I have to get tisbe pods right? Any recommendations where to get these in Europe? Are there any other species of pods that will reproduce well in tank?
Thank you for showing this! I don't want to culture my own, I have so many tanks and already a lot to take care of. I don't mind buying the pods but I would like them to survive and reproduce in the tank
Okay so it really comes down to biome? Too little in a new tank? I just thoguth that if I fed them enough phyto it would be okay. Also with the little amount of diatoms in there currently. But not enough I guess....
I will see if I can find some tisbe and apoc pods to seed. Worth a try. I am suspecting that I have been adding tigger pods.
When my tank was young I dumped bottles of pods in but would not see any after a few days. As the tank matured I developed a pod population explosion then as the tank continued to mature the excess pod population self regulated its numbers and just became an integral part of the tank based on its available food sources. I dose phytoplankton weekly and have had a mandarin for 2 years now. I wouldn't worry about it to much with a new tank. The pods will come as your environment becomes more stable and inviting to them.
Makes sense. Thank you. So thinking that phytofeast everyday would keep them alive wasn't enough I guess. Also I think I need to look into different kinds of pods a long the way. Stronly suspect the additions I made to have been tigger pods now.
Are the pods you are buying an orange colour and floating in the water in the bag?
Yes adding different types of pods eventually is beneficial. There is nothing wrong with adding a bottle of pods here and there as your tank matures but just sharing that my experience was similar to what you describe. Now all kinds of critters appear in my tank and I have no idea where they came from or even what some of them are.Makes sense. Thank you. So thinking that phytofeast everyday would keep them alive wasn't enough I guess. Also I think I need to look into different kinds of pods a long the way. Stronly suspect the additions I made to have been tigger pods now.
Initially I started this thread to find out if anything was "wrong" with the tank or parameters for copepods. But I guess it's a maturity thing. That is comforting to know
Yep that’s the ones all gone within the day you add them, if you do manage to find any tisbe pods or the apocyclops pods please let me know!
