Live Copepods by Ocean Pods ™

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Feed Your Fish

Active and juicy Live Copepods are perfect for such hard to feed saltwater fish like mandarin dragonets, scooter blennies, lined wrasse, pipefish, seahorses, corals, and many others.

Live Copepods is great for seeding refugiums as well as marine aquariums with live rock. The Tigriopus sp. copepods inside Live Copepods are highly nutritious and naturally full of essential fatty acids. Once reproducing in your system, copepods provide a constantly replenishing source of nutritious food for saltwater fish.

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Bottle of Live Copepods

What's Inside

Each Bottle contains hundreds of Live Copepods ready to be added to your reef aquarium or refugium.

  • Cultivated in ozonated, purified salt water. (Never another fish tank!)
  • Only fed the highest quality phytoplankton to ensure the safety of adding directly to the aquarium.
  • High nutritional content, full of essential fatty acids (HUFAs).
  • Healthy swimming behavior to invoke a feeding response in the pickiest of saltwater aquarium fish.

Helpful Hints

  1. Live Copepods are stored below 75 degrees and the bottle should be placed out of high light to prevent algal blooms.
  2. Oxygen in the bottle will be depleted with time, so it is recommended that the flip caps be opened occasionally to allow fresh oxygen to enter the bottle.
  3. It is safe to add these copepods and the water directly to the saltwater aquarium, reef tank, or refugium as the water is made up only of filtered salt water, copepods, and phytoplankton (the copepods' food source).
  4. If dosing directly into a saltwater aquarium with the intention of creating a continuous population, it is best to do it after the tank lights have shut off to prevent all the fish from instantly devouring the new tasty additions.

Copepods In the Aquarium

Copepods are a type of marine zooplankton. They are a fundamental part of the marine ecosystem, making up the largest source of protein in the ocean. Feeding your fish and invertebrates copepods reproduces nature and helps create an environment in your marine aquarium for fishes and corals not just to survive, but to thrive!

For Fish:
Green Mandarin (Synchiropus splendidus)
Spotted Mandarin (Synchiropus picturatus)
Dragonets (Callionymidae family)
Scooter Blennies (Synchiropus ocellatus)
Pipefish
Dwarf Seahorses (Hippocampus zostrae)
Juvenile Seahorses
Anthias
Chromis
Firefish
Angelfish
Butterfly Fish
Wrasses
Gobies
For Invertebrates:
Gorgonians
Sun Corals (Tubastraea spp.)
LPS Corals
Chili Coral
Carnation Coral
Lace Coral (Distichopora spp./Scleronephthya spp.)
Black Coral (Antipathes spp.)
Chironephthya spp.
Soft Corals
Ornamental Shrimp
Porcelain Crabs
Anemone Crabs
Jellyfish
Octopus Larvae
Basket Stars
Feather Stars
For Aquariums:
Saltwater Aquariums
Reef Aquariums
Fish Only Aquariums
Nano Reefs
Refugiums
Aquaculture
Rearing Larval Fry
Refreshing Live Sand and Live Rock
Detritus Control
Public Aquariums

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