Hey - that is a great picture of some isopods! Can I borrow it for a presentation? I would give you a credit on the photo.
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Oops, I forgot to mention that if you PM me with your email or if you just want to post it, I will send you the high res version of that photo. Thanks for all the great info!
Here is something I don't think was covered in the cast. I have these flatworms in my tank, and I was just following up to ensure that they were safe. I see them at night on the glass moving around. I don't see many, but I do see them. After looking them up at wwwWetWebMedia.com I find that they are a copepod eating flatworm and that they are harmless. Well unless you are a copepod....
there are not exactly "harmless" yes, they can consume copepods, they also can threaten corals if they reach very hi populations, they can start getting on coral tissue and causing damage. the damage is not direct, its more from it smothering the coral
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My copepods arrived today... so I guess we'll see how culturing goes! I bought one bottle for my tank and one bottle for a culture I have started.
Tomorrow I get my new phytoplankton strains; Isochrysis and Tetraselmis. I have dumped the rotifers and I am pretty much saying goodbye to nanno, except for the big jug I started with my existing cultures just for shits and giggles
Thanks Rob for such a great resource and Adelaide for taking SO MUCH time out of your personal schedule to discuss all aspects of your work for a measly $50 sale. You both rule.
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Ok guys. I need to culture some pods for my mandarin. He eats frozen blood worms but I want him to eat his natural food. I bought some of those tigger pods and he woofed them down. I have a small 37 cube tank with a small sump. I don't want to go the refugium route due to lack of space and I really don't want to have to tend to a seperate culture tank either. No space in display for a pod pile either. What I was thinking of was to get one of these small in sump/tank CPR refugiums and filling it with live rock rubble and putting it in my sump, then just dump the pods into this space. Will this work? Do I use the 100gph power head that comes with it? Do I need light since I've got no macro algae in it? How about since I will be dosing DT's to feed the little guys?. See link below to in sumpfuge below.
Will a pump's impeller kill pods? I am assuming the pods are transported from the sump via the return pump in low numbers as they adventure out of the fuge area?
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