Live Mysids and Copepods source

[quazi]

Live Mysid Shrimp

 

    Live Mysid Shrimp are now available from Reed ariculture. The species is Mysidopsis bahia and the animals are 8-12 mm in size. Mysids are excellent feed for seahorses, sea dragons, and a wide variety of exotic marine fish.

 

For more information please visit www.zooplankton.com/mysid.

 

 

Live Copepod Starter Cultures

 

    At the end of October Reed will introduce their first copepod product - Nitokra lacustris. This is an harpacticoid species that is primarily planktonic (in the water column) and ranges in size from 200 - 275 microns in length. This will be an excellent feed for seahorses, exotic marine fish, corals, and a wide variety of filter feeders.

 

    For more information please visit www.copepod.com.

[Larry Grenier]

Hey Mike, looks like you found a great project to fill one of the corners in your basement  :D

[michaelg]

Man are those expensive!

[BeltwayBandit]

Would this work to spike a system and add some diversity to the 'pod' population in the main tank?

[quazi]

Absolutely. I have seen many tanks rich in breeding mysids and of course cocepods.

 

This is one way to get them. You can also swap snad and rock.

[JMsAquarium]

You can also swap snad and rock.

45171[/snapback]

 

Mike, you have Snad? :77: I want some :D

[BeltwayBandit]

Absolutely.  I have seen many tanks rich in breeding mysids and of course cocepods.

 

This is one way to get them.  You can also swap snad and rock.

45171[/snapback]

 

I was thinking more about perhaps adding some diversity to the species of 'pods in our systems. Or are these the same ones that we get in the rock? I was looking more at some of the smaller ones, not the larger mysis. Although, if you have a 'fuge set up could you sustain a population of mysis and copepods, or would the larger mysis eat the pods?

[Guest Larry-T]

I often see cultures of mysids and copopods for sale on aquabid. From what I have been told, it's quite difficult to culture enough copopods to get any useful quantity out of them Mysids are easy. Seahorse.Org has an article on culturing mysid shrimp and lists the following suppliers:

 

Aquatic Research Organisms

Mark Rosenqvist

1-800-927-1650

 

Chesapeake Cultures

Elizabeth Wilkens

1-804-693-4046

 

C-K Aquaculture

1-318-797-8636

 

I'm sure there are more.

[BeltwayBandit]

I'm not necessarily looking to start a culture, more interested in just adding to the diversity of critters in my tank.

[Lee Stearns]

I run an extra 2.5G tank not plumbed into anything else with just and airstone Chaeto and clip on light on a timer- I grow copepods, but they do not multiply very fast- There is no way to keep up with the patient efficient hunters in my sea horse tank. But I squirt a few into there tank every so often just to keep them hunting- But when I put the horse trough in with frozen mysis they all come running to fill up on the easy meal. :D