Are my Copepods not eating?

[CaptainNegatory]

I cultured this phyto for them and filled about half the bottle with saltwater and about another 1/4 with nice dark green phyto and 1,000+ pods from @Reef Nutrition. Nothing but good things to say about the pod but 5 days or more later the water is still dark green. Are my pods not able to eat the Nano? I don't have the resources to breed multiple phyto so I need to give them one or the other or a mix of two at most but I'm puzzled as to why the water isn't getting lighter like folks say it's supposed to?

 

[CaptainNegatory]

Bumping while panicking

 

[Rispa]

It's possible that the phytoplankton is currently reproducing faster than the copepods can eat it

 

[CaptainNegatory]

It's possible that the phytoplankton is currently reproducing faster than the copepods can eat it

I thought this may be the issue so I removed it from the light a couple days ago so it only gets 8 hours now. Certainly wouldn't be a bad problem to have as it'll be great when the population explodes I am just worried. I guess lesson learned next time I'll feed less. The other two are the same.