Copepods from the sea.

[keefsama2003]

cool bill just let me know

 

[mano]

Tigriopus "tigger pods" are found in the splash zone all along California and Baja. They survive huge temp swings in this zone and also high salinity. They are pretty hardy from a guy I know that cultured them for DNA extraction so it seems like they would probably be fine in your reef.

Christine

 

[DrBegalke]

my only concern with this is possibly introducing diseases/contaminants to the system.

maybe some method of qt would be in order.

 

[Gordonious]

Good idea and I don't think it would be that hard. The pods can handle a good deal of salinities and temperatures. Put them through high and low temp and salinities and then leave them for a while to make sure the pods themselves survive. Also a lot of diseases and things that effect larger organisms can't live with out a host for too long so the time factor would help as well. After that most the contaminants should be gone as well.

Jon

 

[monaca]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8796702#post8796702 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mano
Tigriopus "tigger pods" are found in the splash zone all along California and Baja. They survive huge temp swings in this zone and also high salinity. They are pretty hardy from a guy I know that cultured them for DNA extraction so it seems like they would probably be fine in your reef.

Christine

Any thoughts or sugestions on where to attempt to harvest in San Diego??? Without getting arrested!!!

 

[Letmegrow]

You can't get arrested for taking pods.

Unless you take them by the metric ton. I think someone would have a problem wit hthat sooner or later.

 

[monaca]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8831191#post8831191 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Letmegrow
You can't get arrested for taking pods.

Unless you take them by the metric ton. I think someone would have a problem wit hthat sooner or later.

So you are saying it is okay to go to a "National Monument" that has tide pools and scoop away??? :lolspin: :bounce2: :uzi:

 

[Gordonious]

Post in the room the divers talk in. They will know the laws as far as collecting. If they don't know the laws specifically they can point you to some one or a copy of them online.(I would try to find someone reliable that has read them, because I don't understand any of that legal mumbojumbo.)

 

[tuberider]

I believe for some species you need a fishing license, best bet in Ca is to check with fish and game, they would most likely be the arresting officers...

 

[GreshamH]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8831191#post8831191 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Letmegrow
You can't get arrested for taking pods.

Unless you take them by the metric ton. I think someone would have a problem wit hthat sooner or later.

In CA you can not collect in any reserve, park, national monument, state park (unless you get approval from the ranger on duty) or the likes. It doesn't matter if your taking water or life, it's off limits in those areas. FWIW, most tide pool areas in CA are protected in some form or another.

You certainlly can get in trouble harvesting anything, anywhere, if it's against the law. Pods, water, sand, what ever.

 

[acroman]

the difference between 55 degrees and 80 is huge..these pods are specialized to live in temperate water, and as such, certain proteins and amino acids will more than likely begin to lose function at higher temperatures. they should be able to survive for a few hours/days, but as far as keeping a continuous culture at 80 degrees, it would be much easier to buy some live tropical pods, and culture them.

 

[BeanAnimal]

Mine seem to do just fine going from refrigerator to an 84 degree tank environmnent and are thriving. Amazing little creatures. From my understanding they thrive in tidepool areas where they are trapped and heated by the sun as well.

 

[acroman]

the ones in the fridge, are they something you bought, or collected? if you bought them, they are probably a tropical species, that can survive refrigeration by going dormant.

 

[GreshamH]

They're a temperate species Acroman, that live in upper splash pools. Being they truly live in the upper splash pools, they routinly live in summer months at 80+ for weeks on end. I've seen them live in 90f pools for weeks as well. We culture them closer to tropical, then temperate conditions

 

[Myvortex]

The easiest way is to grab macrolagae from tide pools and the intertidal zone and shake the pods off into a bucket. ANy place that has macro will have pods.

 

[Fredfish]

Being they truly live in the upper splash pools, they routinly live in summer months at 80+ for weeks

Yea, but he's talking about the refrigerator ones.

It is truely amazing the temperature ranges that some animals can thrive in. Even going from the low 70s to the 80s is a huge change in metabolism.

Fred

 

[Gordonious]

Have you heard of water bears? Kind of remind me of copepods, but they aren't. Can survive through boiling water, frozen solid, floating in toxic waist.... Metabolism slows down, then why not just shut things down for a little while and wait for conditions to get better.

 

[Paul B]

I collect amphipods locally in NY in the summer when the water temp is in the seventees and I have collected them in the same tidepool under the ice on a day that was four degrees.
Amazing little buggers.
Paul

 

[sunfishh]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8993157#post8993157 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gordonious
Have you heard of water bears? Kind of remind me of copepods, but they aren't. Can survive through boiling water, frozen solid, floating in toxic waist.... Metabolism slows down, then why not just shut things down for a little while and wait for conditions to get better.

Those guys are truly amazing

 

[nano7joy]

Well cant do any of this when "ya live in the middle of the country" sounds like fun tho ...