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[atoll]

No feeding until it clears up yeah? My pods are booming in this. Lazy method with banana peel works great lol

Until you notice it starting to clear not completely clear.

 

[ShoyuTheCorgi]

Hello,

Sorry to post again but I cant seem to find a way to direct message you. Do you ever change the water for your culture? In order to reduce the ammonia?

 

[atoll]

Nope I may add some salt water if the rainwater dilutes too much. The algae in the culture seems to take care of ammonia it seems.

 

[Levinson]

Indoor version I think the key is keeping a 60W LED 5,000K light bulb on top... sort of simulated sunlight. I feed TINY amounts of spirulina... I went back east and BF (fish sitter) feed nearly years worth of spirulina in a week - crashed indoor culture. I restarted but shared light across two cultures (trying to do another species of pod - Algae Barn EcoPods) and only difference was light, so last week I spent $12 for another utility light an $3 for another light bulb from home improvement store... waiting to see if my Reef Nutrition Tigger Pods comes around on its own. I'm leaning towards putting another bottle in inside culture to jump start them (and another bottle for IN tank until culture gets going again)

No aeration, as this thread states earlier. Though I do have a stick from yard that I may twirl every once in a while. No water changes.. its "lazy" method. When I notice there is no flesh left on banana peel, I do remove thin peel remains and add another 1" bit of banana peel. Earlier this thread there is speculation pods need the potassium but I don't know.

Tigger pods compared to EcoPods (blend), I prefer visibility of Tigger pods (EcoPods are all so small). I may end up just with Tigger pods, but since first culture went so well until I went on travel and they got overfed, I'm going to play a bit with other pod species. I'm also going to try out indoor culturing for a couple other pod species from Algagen that are coming in this week.

Have you tried the banana peal method with other species of pods? How did it go?
It'd be nice if the method would also work for Apocyclops pods.

 

[MikeTheNewbie]

Has anyone been successful with the banana peel method done indoors? Does it smell bad?
Thanks

 

[BriDroid]

Are you able to harvest them twice a day, or just once? Wondering if you could grow enough to keep up with a mandarin?

 

[ectoaesthetics]

I've never tried the banana peel thing indoors with tigger pods because they are simply WAY more difficult to culture indoors. For whatever reason culturing them outside is crazy easy. I simply add a little live Phyto and 1" piece of banana peel to the bucket and let it go. I had started culturing 3 cultures at a time as they would all peek at different times.

As for harvesting 2x a day. I guess you could run it that way, but you would need a lot of cultures if you planned on using it as the main source of feed for a mandarin -i.e. you were trying to keep a mandarin in a nano and feed it with tigger pods. Also tigger pods will spend some time on the bottom, but will mostly be gobbled up in the water column. So I would be hesitant to use them as a mandarin specific food.

You really don't have to spend a ton of time trying to keep SG or chemistry perfect with these, as they they are tide pool pods and thrive in very wide conditions.

 

[vespertineblue]

Anyone have an update on culturing outdoors long term? Just stumbled on this. I can successfully cultivate Tisbe indoors but am having trouble with tigger pods indoors. I would like to try outdoors in the spring.

 

[Kmst80]

Anyone have an update on culturing outdoors long term? Just stumbled on this. I can successfully cultivate Tisbe indoors but am having trouble with tigger pods indoors. I would like to try outdoors in the spring.

Mine is going 3 years now, only give it rainwater top ups and every now and then when the colour goes light green a bit of fertilizer. We don't have a real winter here in Queensland though.

 

[atoll]

I continue to breed pods each year in the same way each year.

 

[vespertineblue]

I set this up over a month ago, in the meantime we hit -23C in Colorado and these guys are alive! Can’t wait for the temperature to go up!
Thanks for the tip! My indoor tigger pod culture always crashed, this is amazing!

 

[atoll]

I set this up over a month ago, in the meantime we hit -23C in Colorado and these guys are alive! Can’t wait for the temperature to go up!
Thanks for the tip! My indoor tigger pod culture always crashed, this is amazing!

Glad your happy with it. I would remove the top however to allow air to circulate and aid gas exchange. I have never used a lid myself.

 

[SDudge]

Amazing to see how easy these are to grow outside. @atoll, what do you do during the colder months for feeding your mandarins?

Anyone having any luck culturing tigger pods indoors? I seem to keep them alive for 6 weeks with minimal reproduction and then the population slowly dies off. Have them heated, aerated and feeding live phyto daily.

 

[atoll]

Amazing to see how easy these are to grow outside. @atoll, what do you do during the colder months for feeding your mandarins?

Anyone having any luck culturing tigger pods indoors? I seem to keep them alive for 6 weeks with minimal reproduction and then the population slowly dies off. Have them heated, aerated and feeding live phyto daily.

I don't have any mandarin and haven't kept any for many years. I also culture brine shrimp from time to time indoors. I may try them outdoors soon.

 

[Mac8128]

I have seen this question asked often, not sure if there has been an answer. Has anyone tried using a bucket outside with a banana peel and trying to raise Tibse pods? Will these pods eat spirulina powder? That’s probably to me, the most important question, can I start a Tibse only culture and feed it only spirulina powder.

 

[atoll]

I have seen this question asked often, not sure if there has been an answer. Has anyone tried using a bucket outside with a banana peel and trying to raise Tibse pods? Will these pods eat spirulina powder? That’s probably to me, the most important question, can I start a Tibse only culture and feed it only spirulina powder.

I believe I was the first one to bring this to people's attention onto here. I have been culturing pods outside for a number of years with great success. However, I have only cultured the one smallnkind of pods we get from LFSs in poly sachets. Yes I start a photo culture using a piece of banana skin.