copepods

[shwstpr88]

Do you really have to shell out 25 bucks for a bottle of these, can you get them cheaper or is that really the cost of those things?

 

[devil dog]

Thats about what your going to pay... Sorry

 

[subielover]

That's about right, my lfs sells them for about $18 per bottle, and I think a bottle has 500 or so. As long as you have a refugium, all you need is 1 or 2 bottles to get you started and they will do the rest.

 

[shwstpr88]

So you put them in the refugium them them breed....for how long? ANd then you just scoop them up in a net and dump in the display tank every now and again??

 

[subielover]

Well the pump from your fuge to the display will allow them to get into the DT. But you can always just take a clump of chaeto, if you are using chaeto in your fuge, and give it a little shake in the display and a lot of them should come out. They will go for cover in the rocks but some will also be eaten by your fish.

 

[reefman22]

kinda feel like a moron here but what is that bottled copes called? I'm hatching my own copepods with bio-genesis.
reefman

 

[subielover]

Hmm, never heard of bio-genesis. Anyway, my lfs sells arcti-pods, which are said to be a coldwater species that do not breed well in our warm reef tanks. They also sell a different bottle of pods but I am unsure of the name.

 

[canareef]

I just ordered some that are called trigger pods they're supposed to be a bigger type of copepods.

 

[reefman22]

are arcti-pods or trigger pods live in package? Sorry to hi-jack this thread!!
reefman

 

[spanko]

I have not heard that Arctipods or Tigger pods breed in our tanks. The are both cold water species. If some one has had them breed I would like to hear about it, how it went, how they did it.

 

[reefman22]

I've found another sale of copepods and amphipods thats recommended by SWF'ers on the auction site. It is where I will purchase mine momentarily. the price is much cheaper than other sites. If you cannot find what I am speaking about and are interested, PM me.
reefman

 

[fireykat04]

They sell copepods on this site for 10.99. They are under inverts, then go to shrimp. They are listed above or below the coral banded shrimp.