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      March 11th, 2010
Will adding copepods to my tank hurt? help? or do nothing? As of now I see copepods here and there but doesnt seem like a ton. amipods are the bigger ones right? havnt seen many of them though. I want a few invertabres and a scooter blenny or two but want to make sure they have plenty to eat. The tank is cycling well it has been up for 7 weeks now.

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      March 11th, 2010
Sure they can help and won't hurt at all. If your going to try and keep a Scooter blennie you need a refugium just so you can keep a constant supply of copepods to feed him. I would also wait on getting that fish until your tank is at least 6months old just so you get used to how everything works before taking on a difficult fish. Have you gotten your CUC yet? 7 weeks should be about done with your cycle depending on how you cycled it.

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      March 11th, 2010
Adding a bottle of pods can be a great way to jump start your tank's population.

 
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      March 11th, 2010
Do LFS normally sell copepods? Or is online the place to buy.

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      March 11th, 2010
Most LFSs sell them bottled -- they'd be in the fridge (they are called Tigger Pods or Arcti Pods). You can also get them online.

 
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      March 11th, 2010
I bought some on EBay for my Scooter. I'm working on building a refugium.

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      March 11th, 2010
no way I can keep a scooter without a refugium?

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      March 11th, 2010
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no way I can keep a scooter without a refugium?
You don't need a refugium, but you would need to keep supplementing with pods since your tank is new and doesn't have an established pod population.

Another way to help with pod growth that I've heard some people do is take a couple pieces of live rock, and I think wrap them in some kind of plastic screen to keep fish out of there, so that way the pods can safely grow in there, and when they crawl through the screen, the fish will eat them up. In fact, I think someone here that does that reported that their fish would hang around there just munching on the pods. If you don't want to see the screen, you can always put other rocks around it to hide it.

But to begin with, you will definitely need to supplement w/ bottles of pods.

 
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      March 11th, 2010
i just bought a bottle of tigger pods yesterday... took em outta the fridge this morning, gonna lett 'm warm up some, and then i'm gonna put most of them in my fuge, but i'm gonna make sure to dribble a few into the tank directly and i'm thinking i'm gonna dribble a few into the new 210 as well... just not sure what thier survival rate is gonna be putting them in an "uncycled" tank

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      March 11th, 2010
Pods like cheato to hang out in rigth? So could you just make a small box out of egg crate and zip ties, fill it with cheato and place it in the tank for a place for them to breed and hang out.

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