FS Live Tisbe Pods

[sillycupid]

Selling 16oz of live tisbe copepods for $15. Two bottles available, more available in the future. Can meet to pick up in the cities: Mission Viejo, Irvine or Yorba Linda. Shipping is currently not available.

No, I'm not selling you a bag of phytoplankton with only a few tisbe pods in there for a starter culture. I've been raising them for a month, and you can actually see them scurrying across the glass. Great to pour into a brine shrimp net, rinse, than right into the tank. Or you can split the bottle and try raising them yourself. Here is some information from altolamprologus on nano-reefs.com. She gets all the credit for the write up, this is not done by me.

Tisbe biminiensis
Type: Harpacticoid copepod
Lifestyle: Benthic
Tolerance to change: Moderate
Great for: Dragonettes, pipefish, dwarf seahorses and juvenile seahorses
DIET: Detritus, phytoplankton, leftover fish food
IDEAL FOOD: Crushed fish flakes/pellets
TEMPERATURE RANGE: 60-82 degrees Fahrenheit
IDEAL TEMPERATURE: 68-74 degrees Fahrenheit
SALINITY RANGE: 1.020 SG- 1.030 SG
IDEAL SALINITY: 1.025 SG
LIGHTING: Not necessary. Will hide in dark areas when high light is present
AERATION: Not necessary
WATER CHANGES: 50% twice a month. Cultures will crash if water quality declines too far
IDEAL CULTURE VESSEL: Two liter bottle with saltwater and a small amount of crushed fish food. These bottles make it easy to harvest the copepods by pouring water through a sieve

Note: Temperature can not exceed 82 degrees or go below 60, the tisbe pods will die!

 

[kiwigirl]

Do you still have these available?

 

[Digitalfreq]

i would be interested in a couple of bottles.

 

[sillycupid]

Two bottles still available. PM me to set up time/day to pick up.

 

[sillycupid]

Sale Pending to kiwi girl.

Two more bottles will be available in 2-4 week. I will post it on this thread, so check back then. They have plenty of tisbe copepods in them right now, but I only sell when they are at steadily reproducing.

 

[sillycupid]

STILL AVAILABLE FOR SALE

Sale fell through, two bottles still available

 

[Mrlttran]

Pm sent.

 

[sillycupid]

1 bottle Sale Pending Mrlttran

1 bottle Sale Pending banzai75x

 

[sillycupid]

1 bottle SOLD to banzai75x

1 bottle Sale Pending to Mrittran

More will be available in 2-4 weeks. I will post another thread in the future. Keep an eye out for it, since they sell fast.

 

[sillycupid]

ALL SOLD

Thank you for your interest in my tisbe copepods. More will be available in 2-4 weeks. Look out for a new thread in the future.

Pleasure meeting up with you gentlemen. I hope you two will purchase from me again in the future. Mrittran, good luck with your new tank. It will be a beauty.

 

[sillycupid]

One bottle AVAILABLE

PM is key, same price, same size, $15.

 

[ERIC1975]

I'll take the bottle. Pm sent.

 

[sillycupid]

Sale PENDING. Will update Wednesday.

 

[sillycupid]

All bottles SOLD

Check thread in a few weeks. I have a dozen smaller bottles brewing, I may consider shipping them.

 

[sillycupid]

Nine bottles are AVAILABLE

The bottles I'm selling now are 8 oz so I am selling them for $10 each.

PM me if interested. Thank you for looking!

 

[sillycupid]

Three bottles PENDING, six bottles still AVAILABLE.

 

[BeanMachine]

About how many are actually in the bottle? Do you have a pic so I can get an idea please?

 

[Jhuneke]

Have you decided on whether you are going to be shipping?

 

[wickedfish]

Be intersted in 2 or 3 if you'd ship.

 

[sillycupid]

To BeanMachine: a picture would be unable to show many Copepodes are in the bottle since they are so tiny (adults are as thick as a large needle, babies as tiny as a pin prick). However, I will try to take a video so you can see them scurrying around. It may take some time to find a good background and decent lighting, but I will try to have a video up by Monday if my iPhone 5s video camera had decent quality.

To Jhuneke and wickedfish: I have decided to ship, but I am unable to guarantee they will arrive alive and well. I have no doubt these copepods are hardy since they did thrive for a week without a heater. As I decided just now to ship I am unsure of the extra shipping cost. I will go out today and see if I can shove them into a small USPS flat rate box, so I am estimating a shipping fee of $5-$10. PM me if you would like a bottle(s) to be shipping with your zip code and I will message you back once I experimented with shipping boxes. Once I find out the shipping cost I will update this thread as well.