Catherine, if you place an order with OA you should buy a few bottles as I'm sure you could sell a few off to other Calgarians :)

FWIW, i dont know if we're talking about the same pods or not, but if you're buying pods that are kept refrigerated in a bottle, it will not be a permanent solution. these are a cold water variety (hence the refrigeration) and wont survive long in a warm water tank. if you want a permanent population i suggest going the route of the locally bought pod infested macroalgae. there's also some "pod housing" plans around the net which are basically in tank refugiums.

Pods in Macro Algea
 

I have lots of Cheato that's got a fair number of Pods you can have for free. I also have an area in my overflow system that at any given time I can count 30-40 pods that I can easily siphon into a bucket. I'm not sure that counts as teeming but it's your's if you want it. Shoot me a PM if you're interested.

I wasn't aware the tiger pods were the refrigerated variety. I need something to re-seed my own population. I want this to be a long term solution. Not a repeating process. Do you know of pods that can be purchased that are the appropriate variety?

I've send out a couple PMs to people who may have some macro algae to sell.

I'm definitely interested. I'll send you a PM later, probably on Wednesday when I'm home.

i second that,
I tried few times now and these tigers will not last :(

That is in direct contrast of the supplier Reef Nutrition Also a quote for OA web site
"Tigriopus californicus is a very large (250-2500 micron) harpacticoid copepod that ranges from Alaska to Baja California. T. californicus is a very hearty copepod that can tolerate wide ranges in temperature (10-35°C) and salinity (10-100 ppt). T. californicus eats microscopic algae, protists, bacteria, diatoms, algae and microbes (McGroarty 1958). The T. Californium’ life cycle has 14 stages, and can live from 50-100 days.

How to care for your Tigriopus:

Grows best in conditions where temperatures are between 25-30 °C, and salinity is 32-38 ppt.
Do not overfeed! Maintain Tigriopus in light/cloudy phytoplankton conditions using Phyto-feast *LIVE*.
Needs little to no aeration. If using air, bubbles should be 1-3 mm at 1-2 per second."

I do know that stock turn over is a big problem as demand is low. You need to get them as soon as they come in or at least know when they came in

J

I love these guys so much that i am willing to give it another try.
However i am not up to setting up a phyto plancton feeding station, i would prefer them multiply naturally in the tank/sump, but hey, i can't tell them what to do can i ?

As long as they are in the bottle outside the tank (Last time i aclimatized for long time ) they are fine swimming in like "jerk"ing motion LOL
But as soon as i let them go in the tank they die off.

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...ght=tiger+pods

may be flow is an issue because i have like 90x tirn over and this is not counting the wavebox.
As soon as i set up a sump i will try again.