This is all a learning process for me as well. So far the Tigger pods has been better than what I expected. I was expecting every month getting about 2,000. So my expectations were really low. I check on them 2 times a day to see how the water smells & looks, food, egg carriers, and mating. When I checked on them a bit ago there was 9 mating in the tigger pod tank. The Tisbe/Tigger mix tank had about 25 healthy females with clutches just on the small side of the glass. The water was losing the cloudiness also.
Now that I have a good feeling about letting them just do their thing and that I found a balance that works. I will be looking forward to having a promising 5k-10k pods per week or do a 2,500-5,000 offset. Meaning on a Wednesday/Thursday for one tank and Saturday/Sunday for the other. I am weighing towards more the 5k-10k per week to spend less time on the projects.
As far as contamination. I feel that is a little harsh way of putting it. It is just pods/food. I have seen adult brine shrimp swimming around in the tisbe/tigger mix tank. I let them swim around for about a week. Then I fed them to my figure 8 puffer. I also do a 4 baby brine shrimp hatchery as well. I tried to grow them to adults, but the time it takes for them to be adults is way to long and the effort is not worth it. So I just feed the mandarin baby brine shrimp at his little feeding station setup in the display tank. This got my mandarin the taste of the brine. Now he wants the adult gut loaded with spirulina brine. Also tricked him into thinking mysis were brine by thawing out a mix of the frozen brine & mysis. Now he eats both without being tricked.
Now that I have a good feeling about letting them just do their thing and that I found a balance that works. I will be looking forward to having a promising 5k-10k pods per week or do a 2,500-5,000 offset. Meaning on a Wednesday/Thursday for one tank and Saturday/Sunday for the other. I am weighing towards more the 5k-10k per week to spend less time on the projects.
As far as contamination. I feel that is a little harsh way of putting it. It is just pods/food. I have seen adult brine shrimp swimming around in the tisbe/tigger mix tank. I let them swim around for about a week. Then I fed them to my figure 8 puffer. I also do a 4 baby brine shrimp hatchery as well. I tried to grow them to adults, but the time it takes for them to be adults is way to long and the effort is not worth it. So I just feed the mandarin baby brine shrimp at his little feeding station setup in the display tank. This got my mandarin the taste of the brine. Now he wants the adult gut loaded with spirulina brine. Also tricked him into thinking mysis were brine by thawing out a mix of the frozen brine & mysis. Now he eats both without being tricked.