My Pod farm build

[Frogman]

Ok, I have to thank 12_egg_omelette for supplying me with some superior starts! If you need pods, 6000 pods for 20 bucks is a steal! I got three sets and as you can see in the video, it's a great start so far. I'll be using his replenishment until I can build a 100,000 pod population in the 32 gallon can.

What I have here is a 32 gallon trash can on rollers with a 120 gallon per hour pump, a heater preset to 75* and an incandescent 3500k bulb. 3-5 pounds of Calerpa, 10 pounds of live rock, some bio balls and filter media.

I'm growing pods for my mandarin, scooter, 6 line, CBB and as a continuous refresher for my cleaning crew. They make a great food source for all the critters in the tank.

Feeding: I'm feeding a mixture of Phytoplex, rotifers, zooplankton, and three to five drops of selcon every other day to improve nutritional value.

I'll also take a couple water bottles of phyto and set it in the sun to try and manufacture live phyto. But not sure if that's working as its only been a couple days.

Again, if you need pods, email or PM 12_egg_omelette and check out what he has. It's well worth the price and shipping is like 6 bucks because he is pretty close to us. Free if you take a quick 20 min drive.

Here is what the whole setup looks like
https://vimeo.com/149765973



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[12_Egg_Omelette]

Glad to hear, things are going well for you. Exciting to see how this turns out for you, they should def help keep that live rock in there clean. Let me know if you need any phyto to keep your culture up and going.

I really like this idea, I try to feed my tank a mixture of rotifers, tigger pods, tisbe pods, and tangerine pods daily.

[Zack]

This is pretty neat! 12 egg have you moved down here yet??

[12_Egg_Omelette]

I have - I've had a couple people over so far pick up pods and also to cut some acro frags.

[Justin]

Nice man. Do you have any pics of your setup?

[12_Egg_Omelette]

Nice man. Do you have any pics of your setup?

Justin whose set up are you referring to?

[Frogman]

Nice man. Do you have any pics of your setup?

Mine or 12's?
He has a much better setup I'm certain!


There is a Koralina power head under everything that I turn on every three days just to stir stuff up. It's only on for 5-10 min and then off again.

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[Frogman]

I also rotate the bio balls in and out of my other fuges to collect detritus. Then I toss them in here


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[12_Egg_Omelette]

I use doser to dose phyto at a constant rate at which it can be cleared out every four hours. They have tiny bellies and more than that and they tend to go hungry. More phyto and you start to get a bacteria build up and can crash a culture. I also do periodic water changes and every so often do a full water change and use sieves to collect pods and put them back in. Air lines are all over the place. I don't have any pictures of mine.

[leliataylor]

Hi 12_Egg,

I am curious, are you culturing the tisbe, tangerine and tiger pods in the same system? Also, I thought I saw some amphipods in Frogman's video are they part of your culture? The reason I am asking is I am always looking for a source of pods, unfortunately tiger pods and amphipods don't mix well with seahorse fry. My fry will consume several 100,000 pods in a matter of a few days and it can be hard to keep up with them. You two have also given me some ideas on how to boost my pod production which I really do appreciate.