Copepod Setups / Post Pictures

[GoVols]

Guys,
Would like to see your pods grow setups with pics.

Which strains do you grow / which brand
What are you feeding them
How often do your dose (harvest) your display with a fresh batch
What are you feeding them in your main display

Post up pics and tell us what works for you

 

[Fish Think Pink]

I didn't have luck with the outdoor 'lazy banana leaf' peel method but an indoor variation has been going very well for me. I've been successful both with Reef Nutrition Tigger Pods and AlgaeBarn EcoPods. I'm going to try culturing some other pod types from AlgaGen coming in this week.

This thread is where I got my knowledge:

More pods.

My outside pod culture has exploded. I have millions of pods following on from last year. I will have live pods to feed until late summer at least now. So easy to culture nothing could be easier. All that's needed is a container, I use one of those under bed storage boxes, old tank water,a leaf...

www.reef2reef.com

I jump start them with a bit of live phyto, but the green water shown in photos is due to feeding tiny amounts of spirulina powder most days. I have a light since they are inside and everyone outside had translucent containers, but I just follow that above thread and can pull out up to a bottle of pod equivalent daily for feeding my main tank once they are really going about 3 weeks in.

Good luck to you.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

this is my setup, I culture tisbe, apocyclops, and tigger pods for over a year now. Its a simple setup, with dollar store tupperware, an airline, and phyto to turn the water green, thats it. I harvest once a month and start again. Its works for me.

 

[Betex]

this is my setup, I culture tisbe, apocyclops, and tigger pods for over a year now. Its a simple setup, with dollar store tupperware, an airline, and phyto to turn the water green, thats it. I harvest once a month and start again. Its works for me.

For Tigger pods just Phyto is good enough for feeding? I have been doing Tisbee for a bit now but thinking about starting up Tigger

 

[Fish Think Pink]

For Tigger pods just Phyto is good enough for feeding? I have been doing Tisbee for a bit now but thinking about starting up Tigger

Tigger pods LOVE phyto - I feel it increases their reproduction faster, so in addition to spirulina powder I also give them some phyto when I get my hands on it.

I harvest DAILY each tiny indoor pod culture tank, and with starting raising baby fish for past week (tiny Biota aquacultured fish) we've been taking pods out 4-5x daily so my cultures are getting weak - going to start another 2 tiny tanks indoor pod cultures this weekend.

I also have 5k spectrum $3.50 LED lights for phyto over my pod cultures, hopefully extending time phyto is in my pod culture tank (but more those lights are so I can see my pods - but the light spectrum is for phyto else I could/would use any old household LED bulb I have around - though household may transition to those lights over time LOL) NOTE: likely NOT going to have any lights on the newest tanks starting this weekend just to see if it makes a difference AND because I'm being cheap (lightbulbs just $3.50 each but the home improvement store holders are about $18 each LOL)