copepods

[lletellier]

Do I need to get a few to put in my fuge or will they spawn over time?? If I need to get a few does someone in the area have them?

[davelin315]

They're probably already there and you just don't see them yet. If you have rock in your tank or added things to your refugium from an existing system, they are there (unless you killed them somehow through acclimation or lack thereof). Let me know if you need more. One of my sumps is literally crawling with them.

[jamesbuf]

I'm sure you got some from whoever you got your first batch of macroalgae. If not, you can get some from me when you pickup your corals and anemone. There's tons in my cheato and grape caulerpa.

Edited December 10, 2007 by jamesbuf

[jamal]

well a good question to ask is what do you have in your tank now? do any of your fish eat copepods?

[lletellier]

I just have the two false percs, I will have to look more closely... but neither of the macros I got came with water and I don't know if they would have survived during the meeting? I have seen them in other tanks and I looked in my fuge and didn't see any which is why I wanted to know.

[davelin315]

They'll be there eventually. Remember, these things are tiny for the most part so you won't see them with your naked eye. Try and shine a flashlight sideways through the tank when it's dark and you should see them swimming around near the bottom or by the rocks or macroalgae.