Copepods?

[sergiotami]

I have a beautiful pair of mandarin gobies, our absolute favorite in our 90 gallon reef w 70lbs of live rock. Our female has been in tank since June 20012... What I'm getting to is, should we re seed w copepods from time to time?

[World Class Aquatics & Exotics]

i would u can never have to many;) im bout to re seed my tank right now :)

[350gt]

What do u all seed with?

[Scutterborn]

What do u all seed with?

Louis has bottles of pods. I nearly picked up a bottle the other day as a treat for my mandarin.

[sergiotami]

Kool, live in Victoria, will contact him to see about shipping....:)

[jrnannery]

Get yourself an Algal Turf Scrubber, even just a small one. They produce tons of very small pods that you can get into your display for your corals and small fish, and they would be FREE!! You would also benefit your tank tremendously by pulling out all kinds of non-organics and nasty stuff that skimmers won't touch, and with all the good stuff an ATS puts back into your water, vitamins, etc, who wouldn't?

[sergiotami]

Where would I get that?

[jroescher]

pennies2cents was giving away cheato. Others give it away also. It's always filled with pods.

[Europhyllia]

are they eating any frozen at all. I always made sure mine ate frozen -even the pair i had in the 215. Its crucial for their long term survival.

[SinisterLou]

I seeded my tank with tigger pods by reef nutrition for my target mandarin pair. I noticed that after a while the fish get tired of pods and they started tearing up frozen mysis. These fish hunt all day every day and still eat mysis and cyclops. If you dont see them eating frozen food then I would seed every 2 to 3 months.

[ramsey]

Make sure you get pods that will survive and thrive in tropical temperatures as well. There are several cold water species for sale that won't thrive in warmer water.

[ramsey]

Sorry, just noticed I was really late to the party! :P

[sergiotami]

Update: Since I've been stuck at home for past two weeks w our little one's who have flu I bought these on-line. They came in a heat pack styrofoam box and the life in them was unreal, packed w amphipods/copepods.... Put half in tank and other half in sump/refug... Very Pleased.....:)

http://www.reefs2go.com/product/INV_POD-500-BOGO/Live-Saltwater-Amphipods-Copepods--500---Buy-1-Get-1-FREE.html

[leliataylor]

I am culturing Nitokra lacustris in 5 gallon buckets for my seahorse fry. They thrive on Reed Mariculture Instant Algae - tetraselmis. The adults average 620 microns in length and the nauplii run about 100 microns and about about 40 microns in width. This species has a short generation time (10–12 days) at 20 C, and produces high numbers of nauplii in water temperatures from 7° C to 33° C and salinities from 10 to 40 ppt. Another species that is easy to raise and grow much larger is moina salina. Be careful about using Tigerpods as they have claws they use to cling to rocks and have been observed (microscopically) clawing their way out of larval fish.

I know I am taking this thread off topic, however this thread is titled "Copepods".