Tigger Pods

[Louis1959]

Good morning everyone,

I need your help on 2 things;
1. Tigger pods, where and who can I buy them from. Minimum quantity to start, 1000 - 2000.

2. Little more complicated question, i think. Concerns my sump.
When I 1st set up my tank, during 1st six months I had some interesting plant life/growth in my sump. During this period, I did not use a filter sock.

Someone suggested to use one. So I now have a sock. I can't really say water quality is significantly better. But I definitely lost all natural growth both
in DT and sump.
Here is my question, natural plant life that was growing both in DT and sump. Did I lose that potential by adding the sock?
Is it worth removing the sock from the filtration system and finding out?

Look forward to everyone's thoughts.

Lou

 

[e048]

Tigger pods suck they will not survive or reproduce long term in your tank

When you say natural growth what are you talking about? Algae? Pods? Feather dusters?

Honestly I'd keep the sock and clean it every few days

 

[AZBigJohn]

I love the information section on ReefCleaners about pods.

They are painfully honest. They sell the pods because people insist on them, and buy them regularly. Pods either thrive in your tank, or they don't. They will usually establish their population just through hitchhiking, and grow to a self-sustaining population. Once you have pods in your tank, adding more is usually unnessicary, but a lot of folks do it anyway. It is almost impossible to feed a pod-feeding fish sole pods by buying and adding in pods.

 

[hkgar]

I love the information section on ReefCleaners about pods.

They are painfully honest. They sell the pods because people insist on them, and buy them regularly. Pods either thrive in your tank, or they don't. They will usually establish their population just through hitchhiking, and grow to a self-sustaining population. Once you have pods in your tank, adding more is usually unnessicary, but a lot of folks do it anyway. It is almost impossible to feed a pod-feeding fish sole pods by buying and adding in pods.

Why would one tank support pods and another not support them? If your tank after a year or two, will it just never support pods? Why not?

 

[e048]

Pods yes tigger pods no

Tigger pods like temperate waters with high nutrient concentration so unless you're doing a temperate tank not a reef tigger pods won't work

 

[CStrickland]

Why would one tank support pods and another not support them? If your tank after a year or two, will it just never support pods? Why not?

It's like anything else, the population stabilizes according to the available resources. If the resources are scarce, the population will be low. Also, predation will check the numbers. Like with algae: if you have a dirty tank algae will grow because there is a lot of food, but if you have herbivores you might not see it as they are eating it up. Pods eat detritus, there are more of them in a dirty tank. Lots of fish eat pods, so there are less of them in those tanks.

If you have a dirty tank with no pod eaters, just about any frag or chaeto will bring in a few parents and before you know it the tank is crawling with them. If you have a super clean tank with a wrasse in it, you can buy all the pods you want and you won't ever have as many as the dirty tank.

That's why people set up fuges to farm pods. It's a low flow area for detritus to settle in for the pods to eat without predation. The population can support itself there and the occasional member is sucked off to the tank, which cannot support the pods in and of itself.

 

[hkgar]

I never see any pods and I pretty much have a "dirty" tank, because of the number of fish I feed a lot. And, 4 of the fish are Wrasses, which may be why I never see any.
NO3 1.5
PO4 .04

Run an ATS and GFO and dose vinegar

 

[CStrickland]

I had a podsplosion right after my cycle, then it settled down to a normal amount on the rocks. Ever since I got a wrasse I never see them anymore. I feed her a lot but I think she likes hunting anyway. She'll kill snails just for fun. I figure when I see her picking the rocks she's getting baby bristleworms and pods. I'm sure they are good nutrition, and I think it's healthy for her mental state to hunt, but I wouldn't bother trying to cultivate them or anything.

@OP What are you trying to do? Like are you planning to add a mandarin or something? What do you want a bunch of pods for and what is the "natural life" you are after?