Water change with copepods

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Hello everyone I added copepods to my tank a couple weeks ago. I’m wondering if I should still do a water change? Will this get rid of too many copepods? I have a 14gal biocube. TIA!
 

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You’ll be fine to do a regular W/C. I don’t think that’ll hurt the population. If you’re ever worried about it you can always get more. But in my experience a w/c won’t affect their numbers.
 
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You’ll be fine to do a regular W/C. I don’t think that’ll hurt the population. If you’re ever worried about it you can always get more. But in my experience a w/c won’t affect their numbers.
Thank you!
 

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no problem to do a WC. Plenty of them will have found a nice place to breed by now. Biggest part of the population is not free floating in the water column :)
 

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WC is fine, but you might want to remove any mechanical filtration you may have. (sponges, foam etc)
If keeping micro fauna is a priority then having this type of filtration might be counter productive. GL
 
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