Where to buy live copepods in Canada ??
 

Any suggestions? All I can find is tigger pods - anyone in Canada sell other kinds? The US places I have checked won't ship across the border.

Check with Kelly at The Reef Shoppe.

Have you checked reefaquatica.com? I think he ships canada wide.

I have a whole bunch coming in for a small group buy, I should have some extras. They should be in late next week.

http://www.premiumaquatics.com/images/DT-COPHS.jpg

the house of tropical fish has 'em www.thehotfish.com i got mine from them for my mandarin, only had to seed my refugium once and he is fat and happy now for 5+ months

For those waiting for the Pods, the order will be in tomorrow but I will be in Sarasota Florida for business and will not be back until October 18.

I will arrange to make them available for you after I return!

Cheers!

Will they live that long cooped up in the jar?

We have a shipment due in Wednesday Night.

Ken

I'd be interested in some when you get back from Florida; do you have any left?

Pods have arrived! I am now back from Florida and have the Pods now available for those that contacted me looking for them. I will see if I can PM all of you.

The Pods will live for weeks in the jars.

Ian

Oh Ian that is great! when can we meet up?

If there are any extra let me know; I'm interested :)

Anyone in Calgary know where to get them?

we have some in stock, and have a some coming later this week also in Edmonton.

This will be ONGOING live foods etc... replenished weekly.

Ken

We carry both the

Tigger Pods
http://www.reefnutrition.com/tiggerpods.html
and
DT's Copepods
http://www.dtplankton.com/copepods.html

You can see the tigger pods moving in the jar and can watch them feed on rotifers and plankton.

Kevin

Just out of curousity, what are you using these for?

has anyone tried this? Will it be ok for my mandarin?
http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/s...ct_ID=rm-tp006

This thread is old, but I will offer my opinion anyways. Tigger-Pods are not a suitable food source for mandarins. Your Mandarin may eat them (if he can catch them), but in most cases this is not a sustainable solution. You will spend a lot of money replenishing your stock.

Mandarins like to pick off the rocks, while Tigger-Pods are largely free swimming. The real problem with Tigger-Pods is that they get blown around by the flow in our tanks and very quickly end up in the skimmer or dead by way of powerhead/return pump.

My suggestion - buy a bottle and dump it in your sump. Check hourly and watch as the population drops. By the next day they will be hard to spot. Within a couple of days, they will be gone.

There are exceptions. If your display tank is very low flow (ie. seahorses) it might work. Although it's still not an ideal food source for Mandarins.

Read this thread - http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=60578

- Brad

Unfortunately I don't have a sump, and I just got a green mandarin. In this case which live pod food should I buy then?
I have a red sea max 34g and about 40lbs of rock, how long can the mandarin survive before I found new food?

Don,t bother with tiger pod as they are always free swimming and get grabbed by powerhead, skimmer and coral if you have coral that eat plankton.

For your mandarin, get some masago. Those are the little orange eggs that you can find on sushi. They are caplan eggs. You can buy a little quantity from a sushi restaurant to test it. Both my mandarin love these eggs and Hikari frozen bloodworms.

Mandarin eat fish eggs in the wild so their chance of picking at the fish roe (masago) is very very good.

I have trained 2 mandarins easily that way. Another thing that my mandarins love is live white worms. They are easy to culture. They are rich though, so only 2 times per week NO MORE.

The regular copepods is what you want to see a refugium but if you have a sterile low nutriment aquarium you will lack in copepods in no time. Pods need phytoplankton to survive and a safe place to reproduce. It is best that you train your mandarin to eat frozen. Start with the fish roe, easy enough. Mandarin eat the little copepods but their favorite are the isopods. Those are not available for sale that I know of. Copepods are tiny and you will have to buy tons of them if you are not prepair to train your fish.

I kept my mandarin alive and fat for 6 months in a 21 gallons before I moved him and his little girlfriend into my 75 gallons. So with good food he can live in there for a long time no problem, but don't rely on pods only, this is a sure way to fail.

Ken are you ever getting these in again? Ive been asking for weeks.

copepods
 

there is a store hir in calgary that sell live copepods. its called wai's on 16th ave