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Hi everyone! Here's another copepod question (and this time one that I tried to look up on google scholar first! ). Apocyclops panamensis adults are benthic while the nauplii are pelagic - a lot like Tisbe pods. With Tisbe pods, production goes up, not with volume, but with surface area - both from long and wide tanks and from being kept on something other than a flat tank bottom (one study I heard of used small plastic balls...sand is apparently too small to do the job and makes harvesting and maintenance more difficult). The end result is that a 24 by 16 inch Tisbe culture with only 3 liters (a little over 3 quarts) of water was able to produce 300-500,000 nauplii each day with 100% water changes and daily harvesting, and sustained that rate for 2 months straight. Of course, Tisbe is a harpacticoid while Apocyclops is a cyclopoid, but since Apocyclops is also benthic as adults could a similar increase in production be achieved by increasing surface area in their culture - perhaps by using a long, wide culture and/or by incorporating structures such as lava rock, chaetomorpha, or spawning mops to increase the surface area in which the adults reside? Thanks