Where to buy live food (copepods) in Shanghai?

[droog]

Hi,

I'm trying to buy copepods in order to seed my refugium/tank but cannot locate a source of live food. Can anyone here help?

In the US, there seems to be a number of options:

- Algagen Reef pods
- Nutramar Tigrio & Ova
- Aqua-Tech Zoo2
- Reefs2go.com
- Refugium starter kits
- etc...

I found about 10-12 branded sources in total but none of them are available in China.

Importing of live foods is banned here, just as it will be in many countries. A waste of time and money anyway - with the weather around 40C live pods would be dead on arrival anyway. I have tried searching TaoBao (with the aid of google translate) and still could not find a source.

I figure there must be a local source somewhere... I've seen plenty of tanks with mandarins, how are they being fed? Have tried a few LFS - they say there is no such product available to buy.

I've sunk many hours into this now with no success... reaching out to RC for help.

-droog