REALLY late delivery of Copepods?

[Sophie"s mom]

Good afternoon everyone. So as the title implies, I just received a very delayed delivery of copepods. THe company has since replaced these as they were considered lost in the mail. The shipped on November 26, and I just received them. I can see that most are dead, as expected. But SOME are still swimming around. So my question is, should I still add them to the tank (AKA is this safe), or should I just pitch them because there is no real way to separate dead from living?

 

[KrisReef]

Don’t waste your food.

These survivors should make a good addition to the biodiversity of the system. The ocean has both living and dead pods in the water column and the corals eat both.

The exception might be made if the water in the bottle stinks badly from decaying stuff. Then I might dump it in the toilet.