SETTING UP A COPEPOD CULTURE - STEP BY STEP GUIDE 

Hey thank you 😊 glad it helped you out 😃

Hey! Thank you for taking the time to watch my video and im glad its helped you!. Thank you also for your support and welcome to the fish family 🐠🧜🏻‍♀️

Thank you so much for your support! Im glad you enjoyed the video 😊 and its great to see you have joined the fish family 😄 more videos to come soon!

Thank you so much 😊 I'm happy you liked the video! I will include feeding into the next culture video for sure.

Hey Jamie! That's awesome glad my vids can help you. Yeah definatly I will be doing an update soon this last week I've had an explosion of pods! There are loads and all I've been doing is feeding when the water looks clearish. You will have to let me know how you get on 🙂

Hey Maya 👋 I completely understand how you feel.. your message made me smile! Im glad your excited & im glad you made it here to be apart of my reefing family 😊 its deffo great meeting more women in the hobbie! Thanks for your support if you need anything let me know 🧜🏻‍♀️

I'm glad you liked it Michael 🙂 yeah I think alot of places do them. Definatly check it out. You have a mandarin dragonet so I would definitely recommend for you! They need copious amounts of pods! So will be perfect! And it is super easy to set it all up 😊

Yeah I started pods in my refugium before I put it in. They are growing. I grab some tigger pods occasionally for it. Definitely something to look into

@@DoubleCFit yeah deffo I was spending too much money on copepods every week so this is a great way to save money too!😁 win win for us and our fish friends lol

Your very welcome :) I'm so pleased you found my video useful!

Thank you so much for the support! Its nice to know my voice is an easy to listen to one 😂 Welcome!! 😁

Thank you @Casey Gonzalez hope they can help in some way 🙂

Your very welcome 😊

Hey thank you for your comment. Im glad you liked my video 😊 yeah manderin dragonets are usually recommended for expert level aquarists with a mature system and steady supply of pods. purely for the fact their feeding can be tricky. I personally would have probably recommended a 6 line wrasse to eat flatworms. As they are an easy to care for fish. Ive never had to deal with flat worms i can imagine it being a pain. If you think the manderin will be too much at this moment in time you could always return him and swap for a easier to care for fish that will eat flatworm? There's nothing worse than watching a beautiful fish like a manderin dragonet slowly starving as the demand for pods is so high. But if you want the challenge they eat 1000s of pods a day so starting a culture is deffo recommemded. I hope that helped a little! 😊

Thank you 😊 glad you enjoyed watching 😊

Thank you very much 😊 glad you enjoyed watching 😁

hey. Oh thats annoying. Dont see why they dont reply to emails. Water changes only need to happen about every 2-3 months. When the water starts to smell or starts getting lots of tiny bubbles around the edge of the water surface, a water change is needed. (Another reason to change the water is if you start to notice depletion in the number of rotifers/copepods for no apparent reason. (Most likely, the ammonia level is too high.) You need to feed your culture when the water starts looking clear. And you should feed enough that your water is a light green. Not dark green. If you over feed you can crash you whole culture. You will slowly get used to how much and when. I dont know specifically how many ml of feed per litre of water in the culture. Just go by the colour. If it looks like its clear and when you look top down into the water with a light (torch) you can see the bottom.. your culture needs feeding just remember light green is good dark green is too much feed. Hope this helps 😊

@@TheSaltyLife Thanks for your help, Chip Chip Cheerio!!

@@ChrisfromFL your very welcome 😄

maybe microorganisms and bacteria? :/

Phytoplankton

Hey Jonathan, recently I've been using the manual mode but I can definatly do a video on what I currently run mine at for you if you like?

I can also talk through the pro mode too for you 🙂

The Salty Life sure!!!! I would like that mostly because I’m a beginner and don’t know the spectrum on the reds and the other colors I think that with a quick look will help me a lot. I hope that when you channel blows up and you’re famous you still reply your viewers!!

@@johnravelo6321 i will get on it asap. I've havnt uploaded for two weeks due to my birthday and having an issue with a fish I brought but will be uploading an update on the 200 over the next couple of days then I will do a light video for you I try to get a video out every week.. 🙂 Lol! I doubt I will be famous but I can promise I will never stop replying to my subscribers I made this channel to help others in the hobbie with the info and knowledge I've gained over the years as well as an own personal video diary for myself. I too am still learning new things everyday so I learn from you guys too! Thank you for your support Jonathan thanks for your feedback it helps with knowing what you guys want me to cover too. 😊

@@johnravelo6321 hello Jonathan I just thought I'd let you know I will be doing the pro mode video in the next couple of weeks this week will be a general update on my tank and inhabitants then I will do the video for you if you have questions about the light that need answering sharpish though feel free to message me 🙂 I havnt forgot 😁

Your welcome! I hope it helped 😊

i think the copepods eat them, because they eat other microorganisms, or maybe she filtered the water (i am an ifiot if i get both wrong)

There are plenty of places that culture here that you can get starter cultures from

I did do another video showing I had a boom in pod populations. So the awnser is yes it did work and they did breed regularly. Hope that helped

Hey Mark, yeah sure I got the whole kit from reefphyto.co.uk 🙂

The Salty Life thank you. Enjoying your series. Currently planning my upgrade for the end of the year. Which I am thinking of documenting on RU-vid

@@mamdmzreef7738 your welcome 🙂 that's great news! Do it! Its alot of fun! If you let me know if you do decide to start documenting I'll be your first subscriber 😎

The Salty Life I think I probably will but depends on time gonna be my dream build

Get your self a page for your channel on Facebook and promote yourself on there.

You can feed spirilina by all means, but I wouldnt recommend as main source of food for pods. I would recommend phytoplankton for pods 😊

This light was just a demonstration. I used natural daylight as was near a window. But if I was to have run lights on it, I would have run them for up to 8 hours a day. Hope that helps 😊

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@@TheSaltyLife Madam is it possible to sort out copepods from live zooplankton samples

@@dr.gpadmavati7610 not sure what you mean. But copepods don't come with plankton you have to buy separate.

Because they sit near a window they have light from the window during the day. Then in the evening when it gets dark when you usually put your lamps on on the house the lamp will go on and then go off when I go to bed 😊 12 hours of light for your culture will be fine 😊

Feed your culture when the water starts turning clear. 😊 usually between 3-5 days depending how much you feed 😁 hope that helps

The Salty Life that’s great thank you! 😃

@@Dan_wiles your very welcome 😊

My culture clears in no more than 2 days once established and I am harvesting the pods. Pods are very hungry little things maybe because they have a short lifespan.

@@sezles1 the water will clear alot quicker depending on how many mouths you are feeding and how much feed your putting in. 😊 as long as you make sure you feed when the water looks clear you should be fine and won't risk over feeding and crashing your culture. 😊

Hey 👋 I'm not sure you would prob have to look about us websites im pretty sure you would be able to get hold of one maybe try bulkreefsupply 😊

There are plenty of places here that sell the exact same stuff.

If you could keep the culture going with regular harvests, maybe.. but o would probably run two for a tank that size.. and depending what fish you own.. eg if you have fish that primarily eat pods like dragonettes then I would probs run two or 3 of these.

@@TheSaltyLifeIs the light you used just regular light?

Not if you have oxygen going into the container via a air pump. 😃

Thanks for the advice. It already has a Y fitting but the pump that it came with isn't the best. It could possibly be the airline hose thats the problem as it quite flimsy. Either way its impossible to get the air flow exactly how I want with putting a loose knot. To be honest I will probably have to upgrade my hosing and /or air pump. But thanks for the advice 😊

I've done a video on doing a water change on my copepod culture..its actually very easy. 😊

The Salty Life thank u!! I can’t wait to watch it 😉

@@kamilawright5665 your very welcome! 😁 it's called "how to do a water change on your copepod culture" it's a step by step guide nice and easy to follow 😊

The Salty Life got cha!! Do u keep the light on all the time?

@@kamilawright5665 no the pods have natural light through the blinds during the day and in the eve I turn the light on and then i turn the light off before bed then repeat cycle next day. That way they have a full day and night cycle 😊

I've added the link to the description of the video 😊 It should direct you straight to the copepod kit & all you have to do is choose whether you want it with the air pump or without 😁

@@TheSaltyLife ah they seem to be a European only company

@@spudbuilt4308 thats a shame thought they might have shipped worldwide. Im sure there will be websites in your country selling pod cultures. Just search copepod culture in Google im pretty sure it will come up. 😊

No, because they are keeping this copepod culture so they can occasionally feed fish in a larger tank

What??

Hey! Im not to sure you would have to check their website.. the link is in the description of this video 😊

@@TheSaltyLife ok..thanks for replying

@@Dumping_shots your more than welcome good luck 😊