My Tigriopus Pod farm diary

[Western_reefer]

Well, just thought I'd share my successes/info on farming/breeding Tigger Pods. The Tigger Pod farm is a 4 gallon container with an air pump pumping about 2-3 bubbles per second. It is kept at a temperature of 72F(during the night) - 80F(during the day) Once the population gets higher, I'm going to upgrade to a much, much larger container.
Here are a few Microscopic (40x-400x) pictures that I took not too long ago.

Tigger Pods at 40x

Tigger Pods at 100x

Tigger Pods at 400x
(its 3 red Eyes)

Stomach

VIDEOS of the Tigger Pods
At 40x
View My Video

At 100x
View My Video

Stomach at 400x
View My Video


Here is a picture of my Tigger Pods farm, there are thousands of em!!

 

[Western_reefer]

Here are a few more pictures.

Tigger Pod with a cluster of eggs.
All Tigger Pod were not harmed and were put back into the farm.

At 40x

At 100x

At 400x
You can see the tiny tiny baby Tigger Pod in the eggs. There is an arrow pointing at one.

 

[Western_reefer]

Also, I forgot to mention that the Tigger Pod farm walls are covered with a dark towel as I was told that they like it that way. I'm currently feeding them decomposing sea weed and flake food. Once I get my phytoplankton cultures going, I'll add it to the mix of foods.

 

[flying_dutchman]

What do you use them for? Just fish food?

 

[timmmysli]

so cool, I had phyto and rot's going for a few years but never managed to start up a stable pod culture.

Looking forward to seeing your progress

 

[Western_reefer]

What do you use them for? Just fish food?

Fish food, coral food, and I'm going to try feeding them to my Basket Starfish.

 

[Western_reefer]

so cool, I had phyto and rot's going for a few years but never managed to start up a stable pod culture.

Looking forward to seeing your progress

Thanks! Nice! I'm also going to set up a Rotifer culture soon. What kind of pods did you try?

 

[BFG]

Can you post a pic of your set up? Thanks in advance.

 

[Western_reefer]

Can you post a pic of your set up? Thanks in advance.

Sure, I'll take a pictures of it tomorrow.

 

[Western_reefer]

Can you post a pic of your set up? Thanks in advance.

Here ya go.

 

[oldreefer76]

I bet guests over for dinner like the pod appetizers, jk nice simple set up, love it

 

[Western_reefer]

Well, I started another Tigger Pod farm. I used a 6 gallon black container(there is only 5 gallons of saltwater tho), added an air pump that's bubbling 2-3 bubbles per second, and It is kept at a temperature of 72F(during the night) - 80F(during the day). Here are a few pictures that I just took.

Both containers side by side.

A plastic dish with the amount of Tigger Pods I'm going to put in the Black container. My plan is to culture them in the Black container for about 1-1.5 weeks, strain them all, and put them in the same plastic dish I used in the beginning to see how much/fast they reproduced.

Here is a video of them in the plastic dish.(the plastic dish is a little under 3.5 inches in diameter)
View My Video

 

[Western_reefer]

I bet guests over for dinner like the pod appetizers, jk nice simple set up, love it

They sure do! LOL Thanks!

 

[Western_reefer]

Well, after studying and watching the Tigger Pods, I've found out how to tell male from female even when the female is without eggs.

 

[GreshamH]

Shoot your theory away and I will tell you if it's true or not

 

[TheH]

Moses, are you using any substrate? For surface area?

By "decomposing sea weed and flake food", do you mean that you pre-decompose the food? Or just let it decompose in the water?

 

[Western_reefer]

Moses, are you using any substrate? For surface area?

By "decomposing sea weed and flake food", do you mean that you pre-decompose the food? Or just let it decompose in the water?

Nope.


I throw it in the tank and as it decomposes, the Tigger Pods eat it.

 

[Western_reefer]

Shoot your theory away and I will tell you if it's true or not

All males are 100% orange/red and all females are gray/green.

 

[TheH]

Maybe the males prefer pink flake food and the females prefer green seaweed

Also, is that a no on both accounts? No substrate then?

 

[GreshamH]

All males are 100% orange/red and all females are gray/green.

Nope but good theory at any rate