copepod

Good morning r2r! What’s everyone’s opinions on adding copepods? Before or after fish are added? Should I have the refugium up and running or the dry rock will provide enough hiding spaces? I’m about 6 weeks into my initial cycle of a new 125g long and triton 44 sump. My test kits are still...

I have a Waterbox 20 Nano running a Tunze Algae reactor. The return for my reactor feeds into the same chamber as my return pump. Loose bits of chaeto are flowing into the chamber and eventually cause my return pump to clog (even with a cover on the intake). I was thinking a simple solution...

hello all, I’ve been slowly adding more copepods to my tank for my mandarin, some are still left in these bags, can I use a turkey baster and drop a drop of phytoplankton in there, or should I not?

I'm about to stand up two 120 gallon tanks. One will be a full reef, the other will be FOWLR. One of the fish I want to have in both tanks (after about 6 months) is a Manderin. Based on past experience, I know that I need to provide Manderins with a vast supply of Copepods. In the past, I...

noticed this guys in my tank this is the best pic i could get of them good or bad? thank you

Hello, I have a 3 week old copepod farm set up in a 10 gallon tank. Three questions I am hoping you guys can help with. 1) How do you take the pods out of the farm to put into the display tank? With a net? 2) How do you perform water changes on the pod farm? A few sties suggest every 4ish...

Hey guys, posting in relation to my 2.5 month old 55 gallon reef tank. Just to give an idea of stability regarding water params, the tank is faring well, and so far Heliofungia and some other sensitive LPS corals are doing well, signifying to me a constant, stable ecosystem.. My fish seem quite...

Hello Reefers! I want to start documenting my captive bred Green Mandarin Dragonet from Algae Barn. Her name is Moose :) I was shocked by her size when she was delivered (0.75 inches). So far she is extremely active (always looking for pods) and is eating frozen brine shrimp. I will be...

I found this in my filter sock tonight. Its about 3/8-1/2" in length and very active. It curls its back tail up under itself and seems to have front arms/legs held tightly to its body like a pistol shrimp or mantis shrimp. Kind of swims on its side... or maybe that's because I don't have...

Specially if you are interested of keeping your copepods population alive and so on...

how long does it take for pods to start showing up in numbers ? Does anyone does regularly to keep up numbers or let it be natural ?

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I just wanted to double check that these are copepods on my glass, and not something that will cause harm.

Trying to determine what kind of copepod this is? I caught a rather large one that looked like a little shrimp the other day thinking he was a pest. Turned out he was a good one; so I put him back. Just wanting to see if these guys are good too? There's a lot. I populized my tank with tigerpods...