Pod Seeding A Refugium

[nosferatu51]

I was searching around the internet (yeah, bored) and happened to notice that premium aquatics carries a bottle of 500-700 live pods that you can buy. I am about to finish setting up my new 75g which has a 30g sump/refugium combo. Would it be worthwhile for me to buy a bottle of these and thus seed my pod population in the refugium? My goals are to house a mandarin at some point (I figure 120ish lbs of LR with a 20g refugium ought to support enough pods), would this accelerate that ability?

Thanks for any input.

 

[marino420td]

If they are what I'm thinking, they are very tiny copepods. Almost too small to see with the naked eye. Good to have but not much enjoyment if you like to watch your refugium. I ordered amphipods from www.**************** and was very happy with my order. My refuge is crawling with pods now. You can also buy some chaeto from someone in the selling forum. There are usually pods hitchiking in this.

 

[ERICinFL]

I second the chaeto. Most people that have an established aquarium will have tons-o-pods in it.

 

[funman1]

I seeded my fuge with these live pods..
They work well but they are spendy at $20.00 per bottle

~Steve~

 

[Snarkys]

i third the cheato option .