pods and copods?

so as a new guy and trying to do this the right way i have decided to grow or try to grow these little things and was starting to reed and research the best way ! so i bought a 1 gal glass jar and ordered a thousand pack at reef 2 go ,then i put some live rock rubble and some algae ,with my tank water and know im starting to wonder am i even on the right path so any input would be nice!!!!

 

I'm not sure exactly how to culture pods either. I'll be following along.

Here's a bump for ya'.

 

What type of pods are you trying to breed?
Usually, I've seen people do just that. A jar or small tank with water, an air stone or bubbler and some chaetomorpha or other dense macro. Not even sand or rubble at the bottom, I guess that would make it harder to pick them up.

 

ampods and copods i rescued a mandarin and his live food diet is a little spendy so im into growing the little pods ! air stone ? can i change water instead ?

 

An air stone would be to add O2 into the water. A water change will just, well, change the water, along with your parameters.

 

The airstone isn't 100% necessary. You can have an air pump with just the vinyl tubing into the water, putting out bubbles. The airstone would break this bigger bubbles in to tiny little ones, helping the process. You'll probably will need to throw some phyto feast or mycrovert to feed them while they're growing.
The air stones aren't expensive, providing that you already have some sort of air pump... these are usually cheap as well.

Amphipods eventually grow too big for the mandarin's tiny mouth, but while they're young, it will work.

I'm glad to see you're trying to save some money, without downgrading the food source.

Just by curiosity... have you tried prepared/frozen foods like mysis for the mandarin? Some do take on the prepared food.

 

10g with a sponge filter. Would squeeze the sponge into a separate container to harvest. Water removed during the harvest I would replace with new saltwater.... timely water change.

I dosed with several types of phyto. Light is not a must, but if you aren't doing phyto, it's best to add light to get the diatoms to grow on the surfaces. Otherwise there won't be much for them to eat.

We added a chiller to the Tigriopus califoricus in the summer to keep the numbers high.

 

ust by curiosity... have you tried prepared/frozen foods like mysis for the mandarin? Some do take on the prepared food. i have tried 20 different things with no luck the poor little thing is in bad shape i was told to try prawn eggs so thats tonight's dinner mail !

 

bumping along.

I have a 2 1/2 gallon tank w/undergravel filter and hood that I"m thinking about turning into a pod farm.