pods

Hey all, I’ve recently bought a Scooter Blenny for my Waterbox 20. He readily takes frozen food, been feeding him frozen copepods which he readily eats, and he picks at what live copepods he can find in my tank. Id like to construct a refugium for breeding pods, but just a rubble refugium. I...

Hello fellow saltines, I purchased a bottle of mixed rotifers/pods and live phyto (it's not reef nutrition because my last was out of stock of what I wanted). The mixture contained pods: tisbe biminiensis and rotifers: brachionus privatizing and brachionus rotundiformis. The bottle had live...

Hello fellow saltines, I've done a search for floating macro other than chaeto but don't see anything that stands out? I have a suedo sump are in my AIO but it's in no way isolated from my tank. I would like to put a basket in the main sump area and some floating macro (for pods) that is less...

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So I got a couple commercial LfS tanks (about 12g) lying around, and though it might be a good idea to set them up to cultivate copepods and either phyto or brine shrimp. anyone have long term success in cultivating pods and keeping a culture?

Hey all! I’ve noticed these small white dots floating in the top middle chamber of my Waterbox 20 sump. They seem to swim when I turn all flow off, and there is a ton of them, and also seemingly react when I shine light on them at night. They’re tiny, smaller than the tip of a pen, can see...

Hey reef maniacs! Wondering if it’s possible to have too many pods? I actually have tiny shrimpy things. At night, they run amok. But isn’t that a good thing? I’m sure my jawfish thinks so. Jeff

So three days ago I attempted to make a pod cultivating system with a big mason jar, since I am looking to TTM a mandarin before introducing to my DT. I followed instructions from a youtube video this was what I added into the jar - Newly mixed salt SG 1.026 Added pods caught from my DT 20 - 40...

Hi all, I recently replaced the chaeto refugium in my sump with an algae scrubber. This also means I removed my grow light from the sump as well. I have dosed copepods a couple of times but have become more interesting in trying to keep a better population in my system. Without having that...

I currently feed @Reef Nutrition Oyster Feast, R.O.E, Arcti Pods, and Phyto Feast. Can at least the first 3 in those list be combined into a single feed? I'm looking at setting up an auto feeder with a small fridge and this would make things much easier using a single dosing line. Also, Apex...

I've seen a few posts of DIY solutions for auto dosing refrigerated food. I'm looking for some updated thoughts. How difficult would it be to auto dose using something like one of the Koolatron 6 can fridges? I currently feed @Reef Nutrition Phyto Feast, Arcti-Pods, and TDO. I also feed Red Sea...

Hello fellow saltines, This might be a stupid question (or at least a newbie question) but how do people do water changes on their pod culture tanks? I know a lot of people keep pods in their sumps/fuges so maybe this problem isn't applicable but for people maintaining separate culture tanks...

Recently, I have become interested in obtaining marine Ostracods to add to my build’s biodiversity (tropical planted marine). Is there a store/hobbyist I can source these from or is my endeavor a lost cause?

Hi there Does anyone out there know where to currently buy live copepods in Australia? My partner wants to start a colony for our seahorses but we aren't getting any response from the only dealer we know of - https://www.aquaticlivefood.com.au/ Thanks heaps, Dee

I have 4 dragonface pipefish that have been doing great in my 75g for months. I feed frozen brine/mysis/cyclopods and they eat a bit of frozen but mostly forage for pods. I want a pair of mandarin dragonets but I wonder if they will outcompete my pipefish. My pod population is booming and I keep...

I have a swarm of free swimming little white bugs in my tank and it’s tripping me out. They look like little white shrimp but hang upside down like mosquito larvae. Are they some type of pod? Or do I have a problem?

found these guys last night. Looking for ID on anything included. More just curious what types of pods, but want to confirm that the worm is what I believe to be a dorvilledae. Do these sting like bristleworms?

Hi all, I recently transitioned to an algae scrubber instead of chaeto in my sump (and love it). This means I no longer have grow lights in my sump. In my mind I'd still like to make use of the sump for growing good things: pods, good bacteria, etc. Can I still grow these things without...

Don’t use podyourreef use BRS’s PAR rental program. It’s been a month since I returned the meter and still have yet to receive my deposit back. I had a five day rental I received on May 5th to be returned on May 9th which was a Sunday. I placed the package into a FedEx Dropbox on Sunday that...

Hi Everyone, I'm curious to where everyone is getting their copepods/phyto from. There's so many dealers out there, and I've heard horror stories of people getting pods shipped to the DOA.

Im deciding on whether or not I want to set up a refugium. Really the decision is on how I want to set it up. I love the mandarian Goby (who doesn't) and feel like the best way to keep one is with a fuge. I had one for 2 years previously, but had to move and tear down the tank and sold him. I...

I'm sorta going mad trying to find fish I like that aren't gonna compete for pods with a mandarin. I realise any wrasse except for the fairy wrasses and their relatives will generally feed on pods, but would the Tanaka's Pygmy Wrasse / White Banded Possum Wrasse specifically compete with a...

After searching for copepods that resemble the ones in my tank, I am not coming up with any results or similar matches. Does anyone recognize the order/family/genus/species of copepods in the following pictures (encircled in orange)? I am pretty sure they are some type of copepod, but not sure...

There are thousands of these little white "bugs" crawling all over my live rock. Are these some form of copepods? Are these good or bad? (See attached video)

I watched a YouTube video on the Swissguard basslet, and it said that a Swissguard basslet would compete for pods with a mandarin. Is it true? Or can I safely introduce one in my 50G together with a mandarin? I intend to keep a Mandarin in my 50G eventually, and I don't want to keep any fish...