Ohio Reef
Reef Discussion => Reef Discussion => Topic started by: Amstar on October 28, 2023, 18:50:18
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How did you get your tank seeded with pods? Are they good during the cycling process? Do you grow your own? - use them for part of your cuc crew ke food for fish? - just curious on what people do and people thoughts
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I?ve bought pods from various people. If I remember correctly Jeff (coralbeauties) had some at the frag swap. I also buy from Jason Holback out of Columbus, he is super affordable and bottles are loaded! Also reef nutrition tigger pods. I added a ton of pods for months to my tank before adding my green mandarin. So far so good!
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I also keep a couple of mason jars with tigger pods in each one. I usually do a water change on them every 6weeks or so. I?ll put a few pods in my main display when I do that water change. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231029/878e54dfc19631a757f3933bf9cd11cf.jpg)
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I recently ordered amphipods and copepods from Dinkins Aquatics and was happy with the product. Was able to start my own culture with the mixed pod batch.
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So when you start your batch you feed them some phytoplankton- keep some water movement. So do you sieve them then return the smaller ones back
to continue culturing/Growing them and the bigger ones to your tank?
They just need an air-stone and some food so often correct?
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You don?t want an air stone, you want full bubbles from a hard line airline. 3 bubbles per second is what I have read. Pretty easy to keep, just put them in the window. Keep the water a light green color and change water every so often. That?s my method anyways.
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Yes good catch on the air stone - do you just buy phytoplankton to keep
Them feed or do you grow your own?
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I use reef nutrition phyto. I wish I could find some quality phyto locally though.
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