copepods Introduction to tank??/

I ordered some copepods online for my dragonet, and Im not to sure how to add them to the tank.

any ideas would help

I have a biocube HQI 29 gallon,
it has a built in fuge that I have chato in it.

I take the chato out once every two weeks and give it a shake out when I do my weekly water change. I read that some people put the pods in the fuge...

I don't know im lost with these copepods..

thanks:-[

 

I would introduce them at night if possible, right into the display tank.

 

they place I got them from said there was roughly 200 of them in the container they come in... should I put all of them in>??? thanks

 

Do you have any population in your tank right now?
Mandarins eat literally hundreds of pods a day; you'll go broke if you have to constantly buy them. That's not to say you can't sustain a mandarin in a smaller tank, I have a very fat, happy one in my 29. What really did the trick for me was making rubble rock piles that only the pods can fit in and reproduce. My mandarin basically just sits on the mounds of rubble rock all day getting fatter.

 

hahah that's awesome.. but as of right now I don't have any copepods in the tank. my dragonet is a scooter blenny hes getting skinny.as of right now I just want to get some food in there for him then I can think about what to do after that...

 

Trust me on the rock piles, it works. If possible I'd also try to target feed some mysis.

 

But anyway yeah I'd put all of them in. Make the rock piles first. If you have chaeto, it likely already has some pods in it if it's from an older system.