lananthony
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I have a 2yr old tank full of all sorts of pods. If I were to introduce live brine shrimp to the tank what will the outcome be? Will one wipe the other out or will they coexist?
Live Brine vs. Pods
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lananthony
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Would there be no point in doing this since they have almost no nutritional value? I thought introducing them would keep my fish and corals well fed and happy.
lananthony
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Gotcha. Do pods lack nutrition too?
lananthony
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I guess im good then. They come out full force when the lights go out.
The reference to "pods" coming out at night seems to indicate to me you are referring to "amphipods".
Amphipods are sizeably different from copepods. However neither truly should be compared with artemia/brine shrimp since "pods" tend to cling to LR.LS.macro/glass, whereas artemia swim in the water column attempting to gobble up phytoplankton.
Generally speaking live brine shrimp you might purchase a LFS is not very nutritionous - though there is certainly protein in the adult shrimp. Breeding your own artemia creates fatty morsels (baby brine) that are more suitable for fish breeders. After multiple molts eventually artemia will become an adult - and at this stage it's quite loaded with protein.
But like all things feeding fish a diet exclusively of artemia is not wise. Also any you might add in a tank will either be eaten quickly or killed/sucked by your pumps.
So the end result of my ridiculously long post (sorry) is to say - pods would be unaffected by introduction of artemia, and feed artemia if you like as a treat for your fish once in a while. :spin2:
Amphipods are sizeably different from copepods. However neither truly should be compared with artemia/brine shrimp since "pods" tend to cling to LR.LS.macro/glass, whereas artemia swim in the water column attempting to gobble up phytoplankton.
Generally speaking live brine shrimp you might purchase a LFS is not very nutritionous - though there is certainly protein in the adult shrimp. Breeding your own artemia creates fatty morsels (baby brine) that are more suitable for fish breeders. After multiple molts eventually artemia will become an adult - and at this stage it's quite loaded with protein.
But like all things feeding fish a diet exclusively of artemia is not wise. Also any you might add in a tank will either be eaten quickly or killed/sucked by your pumps.
So the end result of my ridiculously long post (sorry) is to say - pods would be unaffected by introduction of artemia, and feed artemia if you like as a treat for your fish once in a while. :spin2:
lananthony
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Yes i was talking about Amphipods and Copepods which are both present in my tank. Thank you for educating me in this matter.
usefulidiot213
Bryan H.
How do you "gut load" Brine?
I have never done it but I would guess you could:
put Live brine in a bucket of phyto and watch the water go from green to clear and they are "gut loading". This wouldn't work with frozen brine obviously.
Probably easier to do would be to take a batch of it and coat them with something like selcon prior to feeding to the tank. It would be like taking crickets and coating them with the vitamins/minerals before feeding to the herps. You could do this with the frozen stuff I guess.
