Ideas for pod explosion

I recently set up a decorative fuge w/ chaeto, fern caulerpa, ulva & some decorative macros. I know I have pods. I'm looking for ideas to make their population explode. Do they eat the chaeto or ulva? Do they need phyto?

 

Use Marine Snow for 2 days in a hi-flow area and keep the lights off 48 hours.

You should see an Xplosion in less than a week

Phyto doesnt work as well as Marine Snow in my experience. The micron size for marine snow starts at .2 microns. For Phyto it starts from 5-300 or more

Split the dose instead of dosing once a week.

 

Will a skimmer take out marine snow?

 

I put a fish trap in my tank a few months ago to house a crab. had a piece of meat in there for him .. Next morning the thing was loaded with baby pods. They were all over the glass for a week or two.

 

get a m80, not the ones in the states must be from mexico, the states have fake ones

all jokes aside i would try some amino acid dosing. of marine snow.

 

dont clean ur glass...i get thousands of um

 

what meat did you use?

Also not cleaning the glass results in a copepod Xplosion

Do you mean something like Reef Plus for amino acids? I didn't notice a copepod explosion from using that.

 

Well that particular time it was a slice of squid.. I would imagine shrimp, clams would work.

 

any food will feed pods, they are fully capable of chewing off chunks. Micron size of this and that doesn't matter with them And no, they usually do not eat macro's. They simply use them for shelter.