Adding copepods

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So I want to add tigger pods to my tank like most people except I’m re adding them as I add more every 3 months. I have around 10 pounds of live rock in my tank and a fuge with live rock and chaeto in the back. I have a mandarin so should I add the bottle In the tank, fuge, or half and half?
 

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What size is your tank? Seems like to only have 10lbs of rock that is pretty small for enough Copepod production to feed a Mandarin. That guy will go through a bag of tigers in probably a few days.
 
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At night, turn off the flow for a few minutes. You can do half in the tank, half in the fuge. Turning off the flow gives them a chance to find something to grab onto.
 

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Those lil bottles of pods are a partial rip of: you can double the amount with a shoebox full of phytoplankton and a few days,…..not so much of a rip off if you don’t have any…..
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for $30 a bottle I’d use those as a starter culture, then seed that tank with a more proper amount.

Otherwise you are quite literally feeding your mandarin food costing a about $2000 a pound (conservatively)
 
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Those lil bottles of pods are a partial rip of: you can double the amount with a shoebox full of phytoplankton and a few days,…..not so much of a rip off if you don’t have any…..
OTOH
for $30 a bottle I’d use those as a starter culture, then seed that tank with a more proper amount.

Otherwise you are quite literally feeding your mandarin food costing a about $2000 a pound (conservatively)
Haha but little do you know im getting an entire thing of it not just a bottle. I plan to breed them but Im getting a LOT of them
 

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