Lookin for pods

[trockafella]

How to do know if you have a good established pod community...? I see them on the glass, and i see my cardinal eating them at night, but how do you know if you have a lot of them..?

[jason the filter freak]

Your fish are fat and happy. I went and did something I had thought was hokey, but i had done it long ago with good results. Take little pieces of live rock, no bigger or longer than 2/3's of your pinky and make a number of little piles in your tank here and there piles tight enough where the average fish can't sneak into it but pods can come in and out.

[extreme_tooth_decay]

Your fish are fat and happy. I went and did something I had thought was hokey, but i had done it long ago with good results. Take little pieces of live rock, no bigger or longer than 2/3's of your pinky and make a number of little piles in your tank here and there piles tight enough where the average fish can't sneak into it but pods can come in and out.

 

 

A pile of snail shells works well also.

[trockafella]

All my fish look fat and happy, and i actually did the rubble piles a few weeks ago, thats why i wonodered if my pod population WAS GROWING...

[Sharkey18]

What if you don't see any pods in your tank at all?

 

I see pods on my algae screen (visible in microscope) but never in my tank. I will try the rubble piles. Can I seed the tank from the algae scrubber?

Any other suggestions?

 

Laura