TiggerPods

[RiversideGator]

Has anyone had any success with TiggerPods reproducing in your aquarium? I have a 75 gallon with no fuge. Will I have success getting some reproduction by adding a bottle and dosing with DT's phytoplankton 1X a week?

Thanks

 

[mscarpena]

Probably not unless you have nothing to eat them in the tank for a while and have lots of live rock for them to hide in. I hear they reproduce well in sumps.

 

[larac]

You don't have to add bottled pods. If you have plenty of rock you will eventually have zillions of the little suckers. In a few months with live rock and sand- much longer (maybe a year) by just seeding dead rock/sand. You don't need a fuge or to dose phyto, although both help.

Aquascaping your rock together to provide lots of breeding/hiding places for pods will increase your population. A couple of times a year you can add a bottle or two of pods to help your diversity of species.

 

[jwoyshnar]

I bought a bottle and i couldnt believe the pods i had in a short time.

 

[RiversideGator]

Thanks All!

 

[nces519]

Tiggerpods.com

Scroll down and click on "Care and feeding of your Tigger-pods" Hope this helps

Seems they may reproduce in your system with the aid of a refugium/live rock and feeding of phytoplankton.

It also does not seem to hard to culture them yourself and always have some in stock

 

[seafarm]

They will not reproduce well in your main tank because they get eaten too fast. They will do well in a sump or refugium where there are no predators but it's important to feed them frequently. They don't feed well on green microalgae but do very well on diatoms and brown microalgae like Isochrysis and Pavlova.

They can also be easily cultured externally in a tank resembling a shallow tide pool, such as a 9x13 cake pan. Put some flake food at the bottom to create a mucky bottom and add brown microalgae a couple of times a week. Do a 10% water change every month.

It will take 3-4 weeks before you see a significant increase in population.