copepod culture

Wanting to start a refugium for a mandarin dragonet. Need some pods to start with. Would prefer local pickup vs shipping in the cold weather. I live in central maine area - Old town and Bangor.

I’m setting up two gallon jars to culture a mix of Tigriopus, Tisbe, Apocyclops, Oithona, and Euterpina copepods. The goal is to keep a constant supply for my display while maintaining backup cultures in case one crashes. I plan to add a mandarin to my tank which is the main reason I want to...

Hello Reefers, My name is Ryan. This is my first post. I appreciate all the support and positive feedback this community provides. Anyway so here is the plan. I want to keep a mandarin goby in a 40 gallon AIO cube. I understand that the goby will exhaust the copepod population in this little...

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I have a lightly used Phyto Tank and copepod culture system. Has 4 tanks, 2 PodNest, some extra tubing and bags. Includes the sieve and Eheim air pump. $300 plus shipping. OBO No fertilizer or cultures included.

Aqua medic sells a plankton reactor which is fairly affordable - I've ordered one without the light to start culturing pods before I buy a Mandarin Dragonet. They describe a setup in the manual where you can use two of these reactors (one with the light) and a couple of dosing pumps to fully...

Hey Everyone! I came back from a vacation to notice what looks like a bunch of dragonflys swimming around in one of my tisbe cultures. They swim around in pairs like mandarins with little 'wings' on their backs. I'll try to get better pictures and videos when I'm home later. Any idea what...

Hi Phyto culture been going well so decided to start doing pods…. Noticed plenty of pods running around but also build up at bottom of container….. Picture attached….. Can someone give on-site to what it is…. Either contamination, dead pods or other and correct me if I’m doing anything wrong…...

Hello guys, I recently started a cycle ( AF live sand + media from established reef tank, and Moly as amonia source) and want to add copepods but I'm not sure how sensitive ( if at all) they are to amonia? Reason why I want to add them now is that where I live live pods are a bit harder to...

Hey guys! I am starting a phytoplankton and copepod farm. Here is my progress so far. I have the tubes and the culture coming next week. Let me know your tips and tricks if you done this before. I am new to this and I would love the community inputs. Thanks

I recently started a Tisbe pod culture and am following a few guides on r2r as well as on youtube, but I'm starting to wonder whether I even got any live pods? I've got two cultures going each in a 1.7l jar, both have airline tubes connected to them at 1.025 salinity. I feed phyto once every...