I want to have a sustainable pod colony for general reef feeding. I will be darned if I can find a howto on how to do it. I have watched a few youtube vids and I have General idea. but, some advice from someone who does it would be more than welcome....
thank you so much...info. perfect!Well it is easy. It is just harvesting a population out of a bottle. Tigger pods live in tide pools. Where the salinity can go way up and down. Same as the temp 70-90F+. Tisbe pods can live in a home aquarium. They are a smaller pod. They populate pretty good in 3 weeks time. The more time. The more pods. That is how it works.
Tisbe pods have a life cycle of 82 days. The females can be fertile 2 times in that life cycle. 30 to 130 eggs per fertilization. There is an estimate of 600 Tisbe pods in the Algagen bottle. 300(1/2 females)x30eggs=9k x 2=18k in 82 days.
If the Tigger pods life cycle is the same. They say there is 2k-4k Tigger pods in a bottle. Do the math of the lowest amount to expect 2k in a bottle of Tigger pods. 1/2 the population 1k females x 30eggs= 30k x 2 per life cycle=60k within 82 days.
Glass box, room temp, and a slow drip airlines. With salinity at 1.025. Use phytoplankton or spirulina powder. This is my colony as of today.
If you get Tigger pods. Make sure you leave the cap open. When transporting them. You can close it. When you get to your place of stay with a tank of room temp saltwater of 1.025. Float the bottle for a good 15-30 minutes to bring the bottle up to temp. They will go into temperature shock and possibly die if you do not.
