growing pods
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lexluethar
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Do you mean in a sump/fuge? Because I think a lot of people do that whether they want to or not. Or do you mean actually having a dedicated system/tank for pods?
cowfishrule
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i've never had 1 pod in my tank in the 4+ years ive had saltwater.
lexluethar
Active Member
Maybe i'm confused...
earlybird
Active Member
Originally Posted by COWFISHRULE
http:///forum/post/2525079
i've never had 1 pod in my tank in the 4+ years ive had saltwater.
I had them in the first few months but no longer see them anywhere, and I've looked.
http:///forum/post/2525079
i've never had 1 pod in my tank in the 4+ years ive had saltwater.
I had them in the first few months but no longer see them anywhere, and I've looked.
miaheatlvr
Active Member
Originally Posted by earlybird
http:///forum/post/2525090
I had them in the first few months but no longer see them anywhere, and I've looked.
You have a fuge though, no? early... I have zillions in there and the make there way into the D.T. and my Mandarin is such a Fat Cat now..
http:///forum/post/2525090
I had them in the first few months but no longer see them anywhere, and I've looked.
You have a fuge though, no? early... I have zillions in there and the make there way into the D.T. and my Mandarin is such a Fat Cat now..
earlybird
Active Member
I don't have a fuge just a sump with LR and I stopped lighting it. Originally I had a fuge built into my sump but it's a 10g sump and I had to remove the baffles to make room for my skimmer. I also use a prefilter on my return pump and filter between some baffles so it's possible that I removed them when I replaced my filters and there are no more.
scopus tang
Active Member
Originally Posted by interex
http:///forum/post/2525224
no i grow pods 2 liter every 2 weeks start from a bottle of DT's + i have a fuge on my thank to keep them alive.
Cool! Give us more details.
http:///forum/post/2525224
no i grow pods 2 liter every 2 weeks start from a bottle of DT's + i have a fuge on my thank to keep them alive.
Cool! Give us more details.
interex
Member
http://www.melevsreef.com/phytoplankton.html
look at that thats how i learned to do it.
look at that thats how i learned to do it.
kas2247
Member
I have no experience in this area so I could be wrong... but I didn't think that pods & phyto were the same thing? I think pods are actually little critters that live in the sand & rocks. I know nothing about phyto but was under the impression that it was more of an algea, used for feeding filter feeders.
I love melevsreef though and have read just about everything on there several times. If I had more room for "fish stuff" I'd definitely try growing phyto.
I love melevsreef though and have read just about everything on there several times. If I had more room for "fish stuff" I'd definitely try growing phyto.
alix2.0
Active Member
Originally Posted by veronicad
http:///forum/post/2527879
So, interex, you're growing pods? Or phyto? For what purpose? Food for something else? Or just for fun? Cuz I'm planning on culturing pods to supplement SH feeding....
yeah, ive been looking into culturing pods also.
http:///forum/post/2527879
So, interex, you're growing pods? Or phyto? For what purpose? Food for something else? Or just for fun? Cuz I'm planning on culturing pods to supplement SH feeding....
yeah, ive been looking into culturing pods also.
fats71
Active Member
I bought a bottle and tossed it into my main. I did not see many so I bought another one. I dumped three quarters of them into my DT as well. I decided my QT was not doing anything so I dumped thee rest in there and they are breeding like crazy. My manderin is not going to go hungry 
interex
Member
try this
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...3/breeder2.htm
works great. and saves lots of money but you have to grow the pods and the DT's
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...3/breeder2.htm
works great. and saves lots of money but you have to grow the pods and the DT's