Copepods
 

Besides tiger pods, does anyone know of anywhere local or online that I can buy copepod colonies? I am looking to seed my tank.

check back with me in a couple of months-just started to breed them

I had tons of mysid shrimp running around till I picked up a wrasse, can't see anymore, if you have wrasses no point, just buy a piece of liverock and leave it in your sump you'll have tons before you know it....

+1 good old live rock, the more life the better, I used dry rock in the display tank then I put 2" of sand in the sump the live rock rubble, the live rock then chaeto lol, I have so many copepods 4 months later they are coming out of my hermit crabs shells nightly!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF-FDryrg0Y

you can check http://www.reefcrew.com/, but I don't have any experience with them.

I'll sell you one of my hermit crabs ;) their shells are loaded full of pods :lol:

What about breeding mysid shrimp? Anyone ever do that? Feel free to PM me so not to hijack the thread. Thank you.

Just added a malanurrus wrasse a few months back, think he"ll be an issue?

I wouldn't use the word 'issue', but any wrasse will decimate your pod population pretty quickly, as will many other fishes

Kenny suggested trying to populate your sump ...
This is a good idea as it will 'feed' your tank

Ok. I wanted to add a mandarin goby to my tank, and was hoping to establish a healthy copepod colony, so it would have an ample food supply. At this point is this a realistic option? Or am I s.o.l???