Tiger Pods

[magnoliarichj]

i found this
http://www.oceanpods.com/faq.html#tips

 

[TomNeely]

Thank you for your information "Umm, fish?".

 

["Umm fish?"]

Certainly. Oh ... thanks for reminding me. I got interested and did a little research the other day. I read that one of T. californicus' freshwater relatives (they are also Tigriopus, but a different species from the Great Lakes) has been documented as eating the nauplii of other species of copepods. I did not come across anything that said T. californicus shares this behavior, but I may not have dug hard enough.

Oh, and I am now experiencing what looks like a huge bacterial bloom in one of my cultures. I'm just about to strain that whole culture.

 

[GreshamH]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12879739#post12879739 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by billyWhite
I thought the Reef Nutrition Tiger Pods were a colder temperature species which means they don't last too long in a standard reef tank. Reef Nutrition sort of hides this fact in the small print, so I felt pretty burned after they all died within a few days from putting them in my fuge to reproduce. With that in mind, it's probably better to grow them out of the tank, then add them straight to the display, but even then, that seems like too much work. I'd rather just set up a standard fuge and let the regular hitchhiker bugs do their thing and find their way to the display.

Wow wait a minute...that is not true.

They are upper splash zone critters and anyone that has spent any length of time with tide pools will tell you the upper splash zone is hardly cool. They can reach to the upper 90's for large chunks of the day and then get splashed maybe once a day or a week depending on the tidal action of the year. Now some pools to get splashed more then others but where RN got their broodstock from happens to be warmer and gets less splashing.

The reason they are kept cold is to put them in hibernation so they don't use up all their O2 thus giving them a longer shelf life. No one is hiding anything and RN isn't trying to dupe you, despite what others may think

They are perfectly suitable for tropical environments

 

[GreshamH]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12885948#post12885948 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DMyers1983
I would never put "tiger pods" in my aquarium. They are a colder water carnivorous pod. They feed on larval animals fish, inverts, other pods. They are found in the gulf, and caribbean and have no business in most reef aquariums.

If they are thriving in your system you can bet that your other pods aren't.

Reefpods by Algagen is a much better source of pod life than Tiger pods.

Tigger-Pods are not found in the Gulf nor the Caribbean. They are an Eastern Pacific critter ranging from the Baja Mexico to Alaska. Further more you've mistaken a property of Tigriops that live in tide pools. They don't attack larve to eat them, then cling to them when they move. They don't prey on other inverts, they mainly fed on algea and bacteria. They do eat soem meaty foods once in a while, but they do FAR better on algae and prefer it.

If you travel to a west coast tide pool and look for them you will notice them clinging to decaying seaweed 9eating it) while ignoring any dead inverts for the most part.

 

[OCEAN SIZE]

Great response Gresh. I knew you'd have a detailed explanation, but didn't want to bug you to reply.

I also figured you guys wouldn't use a detrimental or inappropriate species. I know how much you (and Randy) know your bid-nay.

:beer:

 

[Tu Ku]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12885948#post12885948 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DMyers1983
I would never put "tiger pods" in my aquarium. They are a colder water carnivorous pod. They feed on larval animals fish, inverts, other pods. They are found in the gulf, and caribbean and have no business in most reef aquariums.

If they are thriving in your system you can bet that your other pods aren't.

Reefpods by Algagen is a much better source of pod life than Tiger pods.

Unfortunately, for the point you're trying to make, this information doesn't matter at all. You've still got pods that your fish and corals will still eat. So copepods, amphipods, or tiger pods; you've still got pods. It's a source of protein and that's what matters. Not what the population consists of.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Thanks, Gresham!

 

[boozeman]

pods are easy to collect at the shore. Just lift up any rock or piece of driftwood at low tide and you will see tons of them , like this... http://www.castawayreefers.com/showthread.php?t=83&page=5

 

[Cheetos&Cocopuf]

Upon refugium startup a few months ago, i added a bottle of Tigger Pods and a couple weeks later a couple bottles from Adelaide at Oceanpods.

They are all reproducing like crazy with no indication whatsoever of cannabalism. The Tiggers do seem to be the largest (physically) and many carry a visible egg sac.

 

[GreshamH]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12960248#post12960248 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by boozeman
pods are easy to collect at the shore. Just lift up any rock or piece of driftwood at low tide and you will see tons of them , like this... http://www.castawayreefers.com/showthread.php?t=83&page=5

There is a plankton ban in Cali so it's not just that easy Collecting from tide pools is also off limits now in most areas of CA>

 

[OCEAN SIZE]

Pods are even easier to collect from sources like Reed's. :thumbsup:

Hey Gresh - I was thinking of having pod cultures with overflows directly into the fuge. Water changes could go through the different pod chambers, ensuring
1) they get clean water
2) they don't get polluted or infused with other organisms
3) the overflowing 1x a week (or whatever appropriate) would allow their populations to remain strong in both their chamber and allow fresh supplies to get into the sump, so no particular species takes over.

If this isn't something you want to post about, a PM would be most welcome.