Apoc pods Survivability in tank

[Hermie]

Hi all, wanted to get your take here...
I introduced a bottle of Apocyclops Paramensis to my tank a few weeks ago, however I am pretty sure none of them have "taken hold" or even really survived up to now. I see no adults and after looking under a 60x magnifier, the organisms eating my algae films appear to be rotifers and not nauplii.

What are your experiences with Apoc/Apex pods inhabiting your tank or refugium? I have a QT tank full of Tigger pods (and who knows what else), which are easier to see since they prefer to inhabit the glass/surfaces.

Do you think Apoc pods are not benthic? Perhaps I filtered them out incidentally from my filter floss?
Are they super sensitive?
My next plan is to try tigger pods in my tank, and based on the QT tank experience I think they have a much better chance at surviving...

 

[Flippers4pups]

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[Kamden Uelton]

If you run Mechanical Filtration you will see little to no pod life... If they were a larger strain of pods they were probably taken out by the filter floss.

 

[Hermie]

If you run Mechanical Filtration you will see little to no pod life... If they were a larger strain of pods they were probably taken out by the filter floss.

Dang. And this is one of those things I've been trying to configure into a setup w/ copepods. I have a hard time accepting a setup without any mechanical...

 

[Crustaceon]

Pods need food. If you keep your nutrients low, they tend to thrive less. It really has nothing to do with filtration.

 

[Hermie]

Pods need food. If you keep your nutrients low, they tend to thrive less. It really has nothing to do with filtration.

Well there's no shortage of food in my tank. So I don't see how this applies

 

[Crustaceon]

Well there's no shortage of food in my tank. So I don't see how this applies

Nitrates and phosphates are usually indicative of decaying matter. They love it.

 

[Hermie]

Nitrates and phosphates are usually indicative of decaying matter. They love it.

Perhaps I needed to feed them a specific species of phytoplankton

 

[Kamden Uelton]

Dang. And this is one of those things I've been trying to configure into a setup w/ copepods. I have a hard time accepting a setup without any mechanical...

I don't run Mechanical cause I keep purely pod eaters, It's an easy switch just have to do a little more water changes