Tigger Farm

[tebstan]

There is marginal success. I'm waiting a while to make the call. It may still fail, if I'm not diligent. Cleanliness is the issue. If I slack on cleaning they'll all croak, but there's no way to filter the tank. It's just small cleanings every other day.

I put a heater on today. It was a little chilly at 68... I'm actually surprised they survived that cold spell we just had. The numbers have increased, so they're troopers. Hopefully the warmer water will speed things up for me. I brought home some pod eaters today, it will be nice to have a source of food growing in the next room.

[tebstan]

I came home last night to a pod massacre. I was heartbroken. It was that stray emotion between sadness and anger. What did I do wrong?

They had just started to breed, the numbers were increasing, the water was staying clean but green. All was good. And then, mass death. Little pod bodies floating about, mocking my efforts. :(

The only change was the heater. I was worried about the low temperature, so added a small heater to the tank. I made a horrible rookie mistake... I didn't clean it first. I clean all my own equipment before storage, but this wasn't mine. Long story short, I put bug killing stuff in my bug breeding tank. :(

I'm discouraged, for sure. But I'll try again. It was just getting good. I'll clean the tank this weekend, and the heater, and prepare to start fresh.

[Europhyllia]

Sorry. The thing I heard about Tigger pods is that they are not tropical so they generally don't do as well in reef tanks as other kinds of pods because reef tanks may be too hot for them long term (kind of like Margarita snails)
Maybe they would do better without a heater -cleaned or not?