POD farm

anyone have anysuggestions on where to buy normal copepods online??

 

1 more day till my first dose. no really dramatic changes in pod population and i cant see any one the poof they all seem to be swimming around but maybe there just deep in the poof

 

i just dosed my tank for the first time yesterday but only a few came out of the poof anyone know why they werent in there

 

i am continuing dosing pods. i also have some good and bad news. sixline wrasse decided as a christmas present he would jump so hes gone now. but on the bright side it will be easier to keeping my mandarin alive once i get him.

 

sorry for the bad news... but at least theres some good news in there

 

Has your pod population gone up since getting them? Also, where'd you buy them from

 

Best place to get pods is from a trusted local reefers sump. In a LFS, your going to pay $20+ for a bag of copepods. Just get a wad of macroalgae from a local reefer, I'm sure you can get it for free.

 

or just buy some cheato and put it in the pod farm... then every week put a chunk in the DT for a few hours to let the pods out, then put the cheato back in the pod farm.

 

unfortunatley no. i have been using the wrong kind of copepod that are called tiger pods so know im looking for normal ones that i can get

 

matteuw1- i dont know of a single person that is within the state of massachuesetts that has a reef tank unfortunatley
dingo- i keep my pod farm in the dark (i think the copepods like it like that) so i dont think chaeto would do well