Coralline and Pod seeding?

[schigara]

My tank has been up for almost 3 months. I used my 120lbs of dead base rock with a few new small pieces of reef rubble that had good amount of coralline. My Ca is 470 and DKh is 8.3 and green coralline is starting to grow but I'd like to get some more diverse forms of Coralline to seed with.

I read a long time ago of a place that was selling cups of coralline scrapings to use to sprinkle over the rock but can't find the site.

I don't know anyone local with a marine tank and the 2 LFS's that have salt won't go to the trouble to save scrapings for anyone.

Also with just the small amount of Live reef rubble, I don't have any copepods. Are there any sites that sell them so I could get them going in the refugium?

 

[Chibils]

I could have sworn saltwaterfish.com sold pods, but I can't find them anywhere on the site.

 

[schigara]

Thanks,

They are listed under Inverts/Shrimp.

Bag of 200 for $10.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10976121#post10976121 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Chibils
I could have sworn saltwaterfish.com sold pods, but I can't find them anywhere on the site.

 

[uscharalph]

You'll get coraline naturally soon. Make sure your calcium and magnesium is right.

 

[skeeter-doc]

yes the green coralline does come easily at first, but then it does eventually give way to the nicer colors of pink and purples, ...

just gotta be patient

 

[Tennsquire]

I've gotten detrivore kits and other misc. critters from Inland Aquatics before. Have loads of stuff in both systems now.