Pods?

[boz151]

Anyone have an opinion as to how many pods I should introduce to get a good stock going in a newly cycled 180?

 

[milburnr]

I think it depends on how much they'll have to eat, and how many things will be eating them (and how soon). If you have a mandarin goby, you'll need a lot. If you have nothing to eat them, and some chaeto or algae on your rocks, then one jar (i.e. DT's Live Pods) would multiply in a few weeks or months. If you have macro/chaeto in a refugium, you probably already have some, you could add more to there and they will multiply.

 

[possys]

I not know how many pods but you should do it slowly into refugium and with lot of DT and it will multiply very fast

 

[1337TANKHAX]

just make sure to start feeding phyto to your tank if you add pods. it will greatly help to sustain and boost the pod population.

 

[Brian DeGolier]

If you go to reef2go.com, you can buy 1000+ pods for about $20. I was a little skeptical about the count, but I think it's worth it, I bought about 4000, I feed with spray dried phyto and they reproduce nicely and keep my mandarin fat.