pod/ breeding tank help

[12many]

i just started a small 10 gal tank to breed pods grow macros and hopefully breed mysis/white shrimp.


here is pic of tank on first day.

her is pic of tank after adding rublle lr and live sand full of pods as well as calpura.

and now on week 3 before i introduce shrimp i took a look at some water samples and found this. cant't tell if its a pods or a juvenille shrimp? its about 2.5 mm long
pictures taken trough microsope at 60x.

i dont know if this belongs in the advanced user section? im not really an advanced user ?

 

[dendro982]

Hopefully, fish is not in the same tank, as the pods.
Here is link to the links on raising copepods and mysids.

I would remove sponge prefilter, or you will need to clean it frequently. I have/and had similar setups with powerfilter without sponge prefilter - as long as mysids or amphypods have hiding places, all will be OK. I am feeding mine, but could be other standard operating procedure, that I don't know yet. I didn't added pods starter culture - they developed on their own as LR hitchhikers, after I started feeding tank.

Your pod on macro-photos looks like amphypod to me, they are capable to eat quite big pieces of blended grocery seafood, size of it's head.