Coepod Sanctuary

Mrseptember15 · 02/08/2007, 05:46 PM

Since my sister bought me a scooter blenny for no reason. I've decided to keep him and call him my own. Anywho, since I found out that the blenny eats meaty products i've come to the conclusion that he only eats coepods. So im going to buy a coepod starter thing and set up a tiny nano for it with some rubble L.R. Now my question is...

1)Does size of the tank/container matter?
2)Is filtration necessary? (water changes)
3)Is lighting necessary?
4)What do coepods eat?
5)After I've set it up how long do I have to wait until I transfer the coepods for feeding?
6) How do I transfer the coepods? (Do I take the rubble rocks and put it in my main tank?)

alan214 · 02/08/2007, 05:52 PM

It takes weeks (if not months) to establish a copepod sanctuary.

What did you plan to feed the Blenny in the meantime? I recommend taking the fish back to the store where your sister bought it until you are ready.

Reeses · 02/08/2007, 06:00 PM

copepods eat phytoplankton, so you might want to research culturing phyto, too.

Here, this will help:
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...3/breeder2.htm

chelskisw6 · 02/08/2007, 06:03 PM

where is the best place to order mass quantities of pods? dont they also eat detritus?

Mrseptember15 · 02/08/2007, 06:09 PM

I'm getting a starter culture from a warehouse only 10miles away from my place, so that should get me started. I'm planning to get this:

http://www.reed-store.com/index.asp?...PROD&ProdID=16

They sell macroalgae too so i'll get that for the coepods to munch on.

chelskisw6 · 02/08/2007, 08:05 PM

i bought two of those bottles the other day, but im looking for a larger quantity.

Reeses · 02/08/2007, 08:21 PM

I might put my foot in my mouth after saying this, but why would you want to culture pods that grow in the arctic? Are you putting a big chiller on your culture tank? Are those pods alive?

Mrseptember15 · 02/09/2007, 12:06 AM

Is artic diffrent from Arcti? Yeah well I wiki'ed it and it says that they are harvested in the artic ocean so im pretty sure there used to cold waters. I'll be getting this instead if this works better with warmer waters...

http://www.reefnutrition.com/tiggerpods/index.htm

Reeses · 02/09/2007, 12:12 AM

Poke around here in the FAQ's and LINKS sections for a bit of info:

http://www.oceanpods.com/

Mrseptember15 · 02/09/2007, 12:22 AM

Amazing information there Reeses! Now I got all the information I needed. But just one question for those who have already started a coepod culture...Is it necessary to have an air pump? Or will I do good without one?

GreshamH · 02/09/2007, 01:41 AM

Just to clear one thing up, Arcti-Pods are not a live culture. The product you mentioned after that, Tigger-Pods is a live culture.

Mrseptember15 · 02/09/2007, 01:45 AM

kk thanks =)

GreshamH · 02/09/2007, 02:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mrseptember15
I'm getting a starter culture from a warehouse only 10miles away from my place, so that should get me started. I'm planning to get this:

http://www.reed-store.com/index.asp?...PROD&ProdID=16

They sell macroalgae too so i'll get that for the coepods to munch on.

When do you plan on going by? I'd like to give you a sample of the Arcti-Pods to try on your scooter. I've had great luck when trying it on scooters and mandarins at a few local wholesalers. PM me if your interested

Mrseptember15 · 02/09/2007, 02:43 AM

I'm still not sure wether I want to go or just have it shipped to my door. lol, but the shipping is 10bucks. And gas over there is like 5-10bucks? Ionno how much gas is but anywho I will PM you for sure for the artic ones. Unless you want me to pay shipping and you can just ship it to me :-D

REMoses · 02/09/2007, 03:08 AM

Check out this THREAD

I listed a few sources for copepods but here they are again:

Seahorse Source
Florida Pets
Ocean Pods
Inland Aquatics
Indo-Pacific Sea Farms (IPSF)
Reed Mariculture

I used Florida Pets not too long ago in order to renew my pod supply and I was very pleasantly suprised. The last time I ordered something like that was about 6 or 7 years ago (I forget from whom but I did not like what I got).

Here is the thing about pods....If you have GOOD quality live rock, then you already have a pod population. Feed it and it will grow. If you want to kick start your pod population, share some reef rubble with fellow aquarists in your area. Both of these are relatively inexpensive solutions.

DiscusDan · 02/11/2007, 09:31 AM

Has anyone ordered from that reed-store.com site? I ordered tigger pods and phyto a week ago with 2 day shipping and now the order status hasn't changed, they don't reply to any emails or phone calls. (Calls go straight to voice mail). I'd like to hear from anyone who's actually had success (or failure even) with reed-store

rssjsb · 02/11/2007, 11:29 AM

That's strange. I've ordered from them several times (last time was a couple of weeks ago). I've always been very happy with the service (they've actually called me on Sunday with a question about my order, and shipped twice on Monday even though they don't ordinarily do that).

Mrseptember15 · 02/11/2007, 11:38 AM

I made the same order as you...I just got my shipment confirmation yesterday and I havent checked, I'll check it now =)

The tracking number hasnt been sent into the system yet. They reply to most of my e-mails. For some fishy reason its like once you buy the product they become more and more difficult to get a hold of.

Mrseptember15 · 02/11/2007, 11:40 AM

Update: I just checked and they gave me one tracking number for two shipping companies. I have no idea whats going on...DHL e-mailed me that my shipment is being sent to me but it says that its been sent out via 2day fedex. Odd

DiscusDan · 02/11/2007, 12:08 PM

Hmm... Well I checked my order status again, it still says "new order", it's irritating because the payment was taken out of my account last monday. I emailed them this morning again and I just called them again and got voicemail, but that's what I expected for Sunday anyway. Well I guess I'll call them 10 more times tomorrow... It does make me feel better that others have dealt with them successfully lately...

(I wanted to post about this in vendor experiences but I don't have enough posts to start a thread in that forum)

PallidSilversky · 02/11/2007, 01:35 PM

I have a scooter blenny that ate frozen foods, and flake. He would gobble up frozen mysis. Have you tried to feed him anything like that?

DiscusDan · 02/13/2007, 01:06 PM

I just wanted to pop in with a followup on my troubles with reed-mariculture. I called and talked to mr. reed himself (instead of pushing 1 for orders) and he took care of the whole problem. Turned out to be a problem with their software. Then he upgraded my shipping to overnight for free and threw in a bottle of arcti-pods. I put some of those in my tank right away and the fish went nuts for 'em, the advertising isn't lying!
The tigger-pods arrived healthy and swimming around too, they should make my mandarin happy...
So all-in-all I'm very pleased with reed-mariculture customer service and since this seems to be the only shipping problem they've ever had I'll definately do business with them again.

rustybucket145 · 02/13/2007, 01:34 PM

How about just starting a fuge connected to your tank.....? Culturing pods seems a little over the top, why not just start a fuge and let them culture themselves????

KISS!

Mrseptember15 · 02/13/2007, 03:17 PM

Got my shipment in today! Very happy with what I got. I bought some phytofeast for the food and of course my lovely trigger pods. I love them already =D. Took pics and a video for those who are interested. Now im crossing my fingers that I do this right!

REMoses · 02/13/2007, 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mrseptember15
Got my shipment in today! Very happy with what I got. I bought some phytofeast for the food and of course my lovely trigger pods. I love them already =D. Took pics and a video for those who are interested. Now im crossing my fingers that I do this right!

So, where are the pics and video

02/08/2007, 05:46 PM	#1
Mrseptember15 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: San Jose Posts: 420	Coepod Sanctuary Since my sister bought me a scooter blenny for no reason. I've decided to keep him and call him my own. Anywho, since I found out that the blenny eats meaty products i've come to the conclusion that he only eats coepods. So im going to buy a coepod starter thing and set up a tiny nano for it with some rubble L.R. Now my question is... 1)Does size of the tank/container matter? 2)Is filtration necessary? (water changes) 3)Is lighting necessary? 4)What do coepods eat? 5)After I've set it up how long do I have to wait until I transfer the coepods for feeding? 6) How do I transfer the coepods? (Do I take the rubble rocks and put it in my main tank?)

02/08/2007, 05:52 PM	#2
alan214 Premium Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: The Colony, TX Posts: 1,258	It takes weeks (if not months) to establish a copepod sanctuary. What did you plan to feed the Blenny in the meantime? I recommend taking the fish back to the store where your sister bought it until you are ready. __________________ I live really close to the airport. The other day I was walking across the living room and the stewardess told me to take my seat. Current Tank Info: 73G FOWLR

02/08/2007, 06:00 PM	#3
Reeses Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 606	copepods eat phytoplankton, so you might want to research culturing phyto, too. Here, this will help: http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...3/breeder2.htm __________________ There are two systems at work in every tank. There's the system you created and the system IT created. Current Tank Info: Just left :0(

02/08/2007, 08:21 PM	#7
Reeses Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 606	I might put my foot in my mouth after saying this, but why would you want to culture pods that grow in the arctic? Are you putting a big chiller on your culture tank? Are those pods alive? __________________ There are two systems at work in every tank. There's the system you created and the system IT created. Current Tank Info: Just left :0(

02/09/2007, 12:12 AM	#9
Reeses Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 606	Poke around here in the FAQ's and LINKS sections for a bit of info: http://www.oceanpods.com/ __________________ There are two systems at work in every tank. There's the system you created and the system IT created. Current Tank Info: Just left :0(

02/08/2007, 06:03 PM	#4
chelskisw6 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: London, England Posts: 357	where is the best place to order mass quantities of pods? dont they also eat detritus?

02/08/2007, 06:09 PM	#5
Mrseptember15 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: San Jose Posts: 420	I'm getting a starter culture from a warehouse only 10miles away from my place, so that should get me started. I'm planning to get this: http://www.reed-store.com/index.asp?...PROD&ProdID=16 They sell macroalgae too so i'll get that for the coepods to munch on.

02/08/2007, 08:05 PM	#6
chelskisw6 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: London, England Posts: 357	i bought two of those bottles the other day, but im looking for a larger quantity.

02/09/2007, 12:06 AM	#8
Mrseptember15 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: San Jose Posts: 420	Is artic diffrent from Arcti? Yeah well I wiki'ed it and it says that they are harvested in the artic ocean so im pretty sure there used to cold waters. I'll be getting this instead if this works better with warmer waters... http://www.reefnutrition.com/tiggerpods/index.htm

02/09/2007, 12:22 AM	#10
Mrseptember15 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: San Jose Posts: 420	Amazing information there Reeses! Now I got all the information I needed. But just one question for those who have already started a coepod culture...Is it necessary to have an air pump? Or will I do good without one?

02/09/2007, 01:41 AM	#11
GreshamH Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: SF Bay Area, CA Posts: 9,474	Just to clear one thing up, Arcti-Pods are not a live culture. The product you mentioned after that, Tigger-Pods is a live culture. __________________ Gresham _______________________________ Feeding your reef...one polyp at a time

02/09/2007, 01:45 AM	#12
Mrseptember15 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: San Jose Posts: 420	kk thanks =)

02/09/2007, 02:43 AM	#14
Mrseptember15 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: San Jose Posts: 420	I'm still not sure wether I want to go or just have it shipped to my door. lol, but the shipping is 10bucks. And gas over there is like 5-10bucks? Ionno how much gas is but anywho I will PM you for sure for the artic ones. Unless you want me to pay shipping and you can just ship it to me :-D

02/09/2007, 03:08 AM	#15
REMoses Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Silver Spring, MD Posts: 84	Check out this THREAD I listed a few sources for copepods but here they are again: Seahorse Source Florida Pets Ocean Pods Inland Aquatics Indo-Pacific Sea Farms (IPSF) Reed Mariculture I used Florida Pets not too long ago in order to renew my pod supply and I was very pleasantly suprised. The last time I ordered something like that was about 6 or 7 years ago (I forget from whom but I did not like what I got). Here is the thing about pods....If you have GOOD quality live rock, then you already have a pod population. Feed it and it will grow. If you want to kick start your pod population, share some reef rubble with fellow aquarists in your area. Both of these are relatively inexpensive solutions.

02/11/2007, 09:31 AM	#16
DiscusDan Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Binghamton, NY Posts: 56	reed-store Has anyone ordered from that reed-store.com site? I ordered tigger pods and phyto a week ago with 2 day shipping and now the order status hasn't changed, they don't reply to any emails or phone calls. (Calls go straight to voice mail). I'd like to hear from anyone who's actually had success (or failure even) with reed-store

02/11/2007, 11:29 AM	#17
rssjsb Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 3,243	That's strange. I've ordered from them several times (last time was a couple of weeks ago). I've always been very happy with the service (they've actually called me on Sunday with a question about my order, and shipped twice on Monday even though they don't ordinarily do that). __________________ Robin

02/11/2007, 11:38 AM	#18
Mrseptember15 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: San Jose Posts: 420	I made the same order as you...I just got my shipment confirmation yesterday and I havent checked, I'll check it now =) The tracking number hasnt been sent into the system yet. They reply to most of my e-mails. For some fishy reason its like once you buy the product they become more and more difficult to get a hold of.

02/11/2007, 11:40 AM	#19
Mrseptember15 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: San Jose Posts: 420	Update: I just checked and they gave me one tracking number for two shipping companies. I have no idea whats going on...DHL e-mailed me that my shipment is being sent to me but it says that its been sent out via 2day fedex. Odd

02/11/2007, 12:08 PM	#20
DiscusDan Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Binghamton, NY Posts: 56	Hmm... Well I checked my order status again, it still says "new order", it's irritating because the payment was taken out of my account last monday. I emailed them this morning again and I just called them again and got voicemail, but that's what I expected for Sunday anyway. Well I guess I'll call them 10 more times tomorrow... It does make me feel better that others have dealt with them successfully lately... (I wanted to post about this in vendor experiences but I don't have enough posts to start a thread in that forum)

02/11/2007, 01:35 PM	#21
PallidSilversky Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 139	I have a scooter blenny that ate frozen foods, and flake. He would gobble up frozen mysis. Have you tried to feed him anything like that? __________________ I reject your reality and substitute my own! ><((((º>

02/13/2007, 01:06 PM	#22
DiscusDan Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Binghamton, NY Posts: 56	I just wanted to pop in with a followup on my troubles with reed-mariculture. I called and talked to mr. reed himself (instead of pushing 1 for orders) and he took care of the whole problem. Turned out to be a problem with their software. Then he upgraded my shipping to overnight for free and threw in a bottle of arcti-pods. I put some of those in my tank right away and the fish went nuts for 'em, the advertising isn't lying! The tigger-pods arrived healthy and swimming around too, they should make my mandarin happy... So all-in-all I'm very pleased with reed-mariculture customer service and since this seems to be the only shipping problem they've ever had I'll definately do business with them again.

02/13/2007, 01:34 PM	#23
rustybucket145 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: valdosta, ga Posts: 3,707	How about just starting a fuge connected to your tank.....? Culturing pods seems a little over the top, why not just start a fuge and let them culture themselves???? KISS! __________________ 400gals of various tanks in the same system. Current Tank Info: 2 175w MH, 2 VH0 Actinics, Lots of Live Rock, tons of copepods, a Fat Mandarin Goby, Niger Trigger, Yellow Tang, Falco Hawkfish, Bi-Color Pseudo, numerous soft, SPS and LPS Corals

02/13/2007, 03:17 PM	#24
Mrseptember15 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: San Jose Posts: 420	Got my shipment in today! Very happy with what I got. I bought some phytofeast for the food and of course my lovely trigger pods. I love them already =D. Took pics and a video for those who are interested. Now im crossing my fingers that I do this right!