Water change with copepods

wesleyjada

New Member
View Badges
Joined
Oct 16, 2025
Messages
5
Reaction score
0
Location
Florida
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
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!
 

Reef Jedi

Valuable Member
View Badges
Joined
Jan 21, 2018
Messages
1,652
Reaction score
4,009
Location
Erie, CO
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
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.
 
OP
OP
W

wesleyjada

New Member
View Badges
Joined
Oct 16, 2025
Messages
5
Reaction score
0
Location
Florida
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
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!
 

Euphyllia97

FOWLR and reef member
View Badges
Joined
Oct 22, 2019
Messages
1,026
Reaction score
1,493
Location
Belgium
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
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 :)
 

cloak

2500 Club Member
View Badges
Joined
Apr 25, 2015
Messages
3,015
Reaction score
2,124
Location
Stockton, CA
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
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
 
Last edited:

TOP 10 Trending Threads

WHAT AMOUNT OF LIVE ROCK AND SAND SHOULD BE PRIORITIZED FOR OPTIMAL BIODIVERSITY/FILTRATION?

  • 100% live rock + bagged sand

    Votes: 37 27.8%
  • 100% dry rock + 100% live sand

    Votes: 45 33.8%
  • 50/50 live/dry rock, 50/50 live/bagged sand

    Votes: 29 21.8%
  • 75% live rock, 25% live sand

    Votes: 12 9.0%
  • 25% live rock, 75% live sand

    Votes: 10 7.5%
Back
Top