No more Amphipods - Page 2

Rainer Feyer · 12/11/2009, 07:41 AM

Absolutely helps - great note-keeping and very much aprpeciated!

I actually have a little cuture of copepods - will need to get another 10g tank and start an Amphipod minifarm

First, though, have to buid a storage closet for my wife!

ChadTheSpike · 12/11/2009, 08:33 AM

haha, yes, keeping the SO happy is important...

NexDog · 12/11/2009, 10:29 AM

My tank is 4 years old this month and i've seen a huge decrease in the overall pod population. Domn't see many in teh DT at all these days. Don't really see many in the fuge. Where I do see them around the sponges I stuffed in bubble traps. I have sponges everywhere - great denitrying bactweria breeders and the pods seems magnetically attracted to them. I think I throw some the DT for a bit.

DThompson · 12/11/2009, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by graveyardworm

Chances are you have some, but a very small population due to insufficient food or some sort of competition. Other critters may be eating the larvae before they even get a chance. Have you checked the tanks with a flashlight after lights out?

This is most likely the case. I have a bare bottom in my frag and a ton of copepods. I don't know a whole lot about them, but I have observed the population explode when I use phytoplankton on a regular basis.

Rainer Feyer · 12/14/2009, 08:43 AM

I had actually stopped using phyto (maybe my probblem) as it would give me algae blooms when I used it (could have been coincidental).
A few months ago I started using an Algae scrubber (vertical first then horizontal) with excellent success on my algae/ caeano may I add.
However, I thought I could stop using Phyto supplementation as the ATS (i.e.: Algae farm) would produce enough Phytoplankton for the pods as well as the main tank?

Have not had any luck getting Amphi's from local reefers

12/11/2009, 07:41 AM	#26
Rainer Feyer Premium Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Johnstown, NY, USA Posts: 1,054	Absolutely helps - great note-keeping and very much aprpeciated! I actually have a little cuture of copepods - will need to get another 10g tank and start an Amphipod minifarm First, though, have to buid a storage closet for my wife! __________________ Rainer ____________________________________________________________________ Yes, Mr. Trainer, that was very loud! But, I said I wanted to hear your HEART! _ Current Tank Info: 75 Gal w/ 55g sump, 218W T5's, 55g Prop tank with PC's, 20g Aiptasia tank

12/11/2009, 08:33 AM	#27
ChadTheSpike Reef Engineer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Washington DC Posts: 1,526 Blog Entries: 1	haha, yes, keeping the SO happy is important... __________________ ~Chad "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." Current Tank Info: 195 gallons of fun

12/11/2009, 10:29 AM	#28
NexDog Snail Killer Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Kyushu, Japan Posts: 4,804	My tank is 4 years old this month and i've seen a huge decrease in the overall pod population. Domn't see many in teh DT at all these days. Don't really see many in the fuge. Where I do see them around the sponges I stuffed in bubble traps. I have sponges everywhere - great denitrying bactweria breeders and the pods seems magnetically attracted to them. I think I throw some the DT for a bit. __________________ Laurence Flynn 340g In-Wall Envision Tank and 150g Sump. Current Tank Info: Deltec 902, PFO hood with 3x400w Radium 20k and 4x96w PC's. Hammerhead closed loop - and 2 x Tunze 6105 (and Vortech still sucks).

12/14/2009, 08:43 AM	#30
Rainer Feyer Premium Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Johnstown, NY, USA Posts: 1,054	I had actually stopped using phyto (maybe my probblem) as it would give me algae blooms when I used it (could have been coincidental). A few months ago I started using an Algae scrubber (vertical first then horizontal) with excellent success on my algae/ caeano may I add. However, I thought I could stop using Phyto supplementation as the ATS (i.e.: Algae farm) would produce enough Phytoplankton for the pods as well as the main tank? Have not had any luck getting Amphi's from local reefers __________________ Rainer ____________________________________________________________________ Yes, Mr. Trainer, that was very loud! But, I said I wanted to hear your HEART! _ Current Tank Info: 75 Gal w/ 55g sump, 218W T5's, 55g Prop tank with PC's, 20g Aiptasia tank