Cope pods

[gareth.hubbarde]

Does anybody use something like this product?

https://reefphyto.co.uk/products/live-reef-food-bundle-10

I was just thinking that it might be worth adding pods to the tank for wrasse and coral beauty and the mysis for everything especially dwarf lionfish.

If you do add pods how much and how often please?

Thanks.

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[mcgyvr]

Yes people add products like that all the time..
Amount depends on the size/qty/appetite of your fish and the ability of your tank to self produce..

I have a wrasse and never add copepods as my tank should be large enough that they will reproduce enough to offer a continual supply.

Others try to keep wrasse in a smaller tank and need to introduce supplemental food like that to maintain the population. Some wrasses can eat hundreds to thousands of copepods a day.. and that can get very expensive fast..

Others do culturing of your own in a separate system like this.. (far cheaper in the long run if you need to introduce them often.
https://www.thesprucepets.com/culturing-amphipods-and-copepods-2924613

 

[Four drachma]

A refugium with copepods is best, they will lay eggs that get pumped into your main tank, and never run out...or set up one in your sump. I have a mandarin and two small pipe fish who's very lives depend on them...at some point you'll see the eggs on your glass from time to time, they hatch and mature over a few weeks and disappear into the live rock.

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