Anyone seen Poseidon's Feast (copepods) around? Need to fatten up a mandy

[Coelli]

On try #2 with a mandy. The first one lasted 4 days, he was too skinny and too stressed out to eat and just hid until he died.

Decided to take a chance on a guy from Rainbow; he's thin but not too thin and had lasted a week so far in their copper system. He was really active despite the conditions there so I took him home last night. He wasn't phased much by the acclimation process and started hunting right away in my tank and was cruising the rock wall this morning.

I want to give him a boost and don't want to order from Reefs2Go. Anyone seen Poseidon's Feast or other copepod/amphipods in the valley or within a short distance of El Segundo? The Reef Nutrition bottles are too expensive to use for this.

Thanks guys!

 

[touchingstoves]

I would try Bob's Tropical. It's in east LA

 

[mark.a.smith405]

You could also look for reefers with chaeto that has pods if ya cant find anything =]

 

[mosquared]

I actually raise copepods for baby seahorses, they are the free swimming kind, not the typical kind that crawl are on glass and rocks. They are, Parvocalnus and Euterpina acutifrons. If mandarins eat them they are really nutritious, as I'm able to raise reidi seahorses. You could also try baby brine shrimp.

 

[mmarro22]

Algea barn. . They sell them on eBay. I prefer their tisbi pods as they can hunt them off of the rocks

 

[orbela]

Algea barn. . They sell them on eBay. I prefer their tisbi pods as they can hunt them off of the rocks

Post a link
I'm going to check them out.


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[Scout]

I found them on eBay, type is pods and you'll find them, but I wish a LFS carried these, copepod seem too fragile to ship.

 

[Scout]

http://m.ebay.com/itm/121574049710?nav=SEARCH

 

[jayhawk]

Aquarium City offers live brine. My mandarin loves them. They are larger in size than copepods so it's gives him a good fix....

 

[Coelli]

Aren't brine shrimp supposed to be not very nutritious? I was just there last weekend and forgot to get some before I left. I should try putting together a hatchery for him.

 

[mosquared]

Aren't brine shrimp supposed to be not very nutritious? I was just there last weekend and forgot to get some before I left. I should try putting together a hatchery for him.

True. A dry enrichment like algamac 3050 would def help with that tho. Brine alone is no good.

 

[Coelli]

I fed them a bunch of Reef Roids before putting them in the tank, but the mandy showed no interest. Pod population seems to be holding though; they're all over the glass and rocks so hopefully he'll catch up... hopefully.

 

[orbela]

Bobs tropical fish carries Poseidon feast


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