seperate refugium for copod cultivation

[vickreyreef]

If I wanted to create a tank for the sole purpose of keeping and growing a copod population for my mandarin, what would I need? Do they need a "whole" set up? I guess I would need chaeto or something in there as well? What would they eat?

I have a spare 20 gallon tank that I could use to set this up...but just don't know what else they would need?

 

[Young Frankenstein]

I was thinking of doing the same with a 10 gallon

 

[vickreyreef]

my assumption is that they need everything, but I am hoping it is more just a light and some agitation versus the whole sump/filter set up......

ANYONE???

 

[graveyardworm]

Copepods are easy to culture. Just takes a little time and space.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030205...ancedaquarist.com/issues/feb2003/breeder2.htm

 

[Young Frankenstein]

That was a good link graveyard worm thanks

 

[graveyardworm]

I got alot more if you need em.

 

[Young Frankenstein]

I was discouraged from starting that 10 gal tank by wrong information, its fairly easy to raise copepods

 

[vickreyreef]

Thank you so much for that link....now I have a weekend project

 

[Subliminal]

You could also just buy a CPR aquafuge and hang it on the back of your tank, fill it with some live sand and chaeto and drop in a bottle of tigger pods. Within a month or two it'd be full of the lil fellas, and the drain-back of the water will also release pods into the display tank.

 

[Young Frankenstein]

Can I raise copy pods and artemia in the same 10g tank ?

 

[Young Frankenstein]

Or better yet, copy pods, artemia, phytoplangton. ?

 

[graveyardworm]

Trying to do phyto in the same container would be futile. The artemia and copepods eat it to grow and breed. You will need a good supply of phyto for copepods. I dont think you would be very successful trying to raise both the copepods and artemia in the same container. It might work for a short time but I would think that one or the other culture would crash in short order.