Adding Pods to Reeftank (Reef Nutrition)

It’s time to seed the tank with pods :)
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[@PhiCongDoan7587]

I really like how you talk about other ways to add them because like myself I have an all in one. I'm actually running a canister (beginner) still with a UV steralizer inside . Thanks for sharing!

[@kingfisher7960]

I spent 10 years building a tank just to make a mandarin goby pod haven. The refugeum is a very interesting concept. Manufacturer says the tigger pods will not reproduce but the apex ones will.

[@fellowreefer]

This is great info and as always keep up the good work brother and I will certainly give Reef nutrition a try for the new build coming up soon.. 👌👍👏

[@luisdiegocordero6000]

Man I just love your aquascaping!

[@ProducerReef]

Another fire 🔥 video and showing the progress from start to finish. I’m trying to redo and clean my tank without killing it. Just going to take my time and kill all the algae.

[@Marinetuck220]

Watching your videos got me back in the hobby. Ordered a Waterbox 20 :) just waiting on everything to show up lol

[@eatsleepreef9565]

Nice very cool!! What are the plans for that setup?

[@Marinetuck220]

@@eatsleepreef9565 was thinking nems but can't help my self when buying other corals

[@b.g.4277]

Will be interested in seeing if they take hold in the refugium. For me they didn't seem to take off until I added rubble rock and would see much more roaming around versus having just chaeto in the fuge.

[@atfinthehouse8631]

I think pods could be very beneficial with copepods and the bigger amphipods populating the live rocks. With a large population in the rocks probably can keep algae growth down. Reducing detritus in the tiny cracks and crevices of the live rock and they themselves feeding the bacteria by their further broken down waste and stirring things up. At least that's what i take away from reading about these tiny crustaceans. Has anyone done a study on that?

[@ttravreefsaquatics8354]

Great video man😎🔥

[@bryanjames6528]

Newyork steelo God your still going lol I watched you years and years ago 👍

[@hughjanus1135]

Where is he? I watched him too

[@4SunnyinMiami2]

Had been buying bottles of Reef Nutrition tigger pods for my Mandarin dragonett like a drug addict so he won't starve. 😳 Then just lately I have trained him to take live brine from a target feeder, which he really goes crazy for. Anyhow I also started a 2 gallon tank within the last 3 weeks of tigger pods and its going really well I should say. I have an explosion of these pods now in the small tank. Though with all the bottles I have added in the last few months to my display aquarium ( no sump) ,I have yet to see any explosive population of either tigger or tisbe in there. I have two clowns and a Royal gramma that snap them up like French fries the minute I put them in even when the aquarium lights are off . They see them even in dim lighting. 😪

[@matthewbrown6688]

Is the current pro strip led marine lighting enough to grow soft corals and zoas on a 65 gal. Tank?

[@Ace718215]

Have been watching your videos for a long time now. I have an aio with a fuge in the second compartment. I have added a captive bred mandarin from biota and started adding pods. How often should I replenish these pods? My mandarin is tiny atm

[@Elev8minh]

GREAT videos as always!!!!like and and subbed!!! QUICK QUESTION. when do you think it would be an appropriate time to add to a newly cycled tank?

[@turnerdischinger6365]

Do you plan on adding a couple of sponges or anything like that just for the extra diversity or nah

[@DRYAHI]

Do you get a spike in phosphate from adding copepods? Or live phytoplankton??

[@6Devils6Soul6]

Good stuff man, i have a all in one tank that i started when i saw you start this tank. Been copying almost all your moves and would live to share it with you, maybe i can get some good advice.

[@eatsleepreef9565]

Nice brotha. Ya so far this build had been going very very smooth 🤙🏼

[@tattedup1189]

What's the difference between the tigger pods and Apex pods ? Thanks

[@marcelrodriguez2067]

My nutrients are so low that i have decided to go sockless starting today, i just had my refugium setup so lets see how it goes, saw alot of dead pods on my socks all the time so lets see if anything changes.

[@eatsleepreef9565]

I think you will love it. Prepare to see crazy polyp extension

[@salsreef5196]

Nice bro🤙

[@pb3701]

How often do you need to add the phytoplankton?

[@Miguelspl150]

Coralline won’t grow if your calcium is below 400. I had my tank for over 6 months and didn’t see any coraline grow. After I got the water lab tested I saw my calcium at 350 and started dosing I saw some growth. After a week coraline started to growing on the plexiglass. Rocks started to get pink spots and now after 2 months of keeping calcium at 480 ppm the Caroline is starting to populate. Only thing I did is add snails and blue leg crabs with pink coroline on their shells. I might add purple coroline so I get both colors. Coroline is easy to grow

[@houseofsharpeis9366]

Why chase coralline? It will show up no matter how hard you try to keep it out and now as it spreads in an early tank it’s eating calc and alk. Which now increases depletion instead of your corals doing that.

[@foreignflava9666]

Hey man..how ya doin I gotta say I absolutely love your channel bruh and I love all of your instructional videos you do an excellent job of teaching non-techs like me who just fly in the dark lol but I was hoping you could help me out with a problem man...see I followed along with your video on how to set up the GHL director but for the life of me I cant get the ph probe calibrated it kept saying error..error I'm stuck at that point do you think I got a bad probe?? I would appreciate any response man thanks!!

[@atfinthehouse8631]

How much per bottle?. How big are the bottles?. Ever use amphipods?. Mix copepods and amphipods?

[@reefnutrition8442]

Tigger-Pods and Apex-Pods are $25 a bottle (minimum). Tigger-Pods are Tigriopus californicus species. There are approximately 3,000 per 6 oz. bottle. Apex-Pods are Apocyclops panamensis species. There are approximately 2,000 per 6 oz. bottle. We don't culture amphipods, but we are considering it. Thanks for posting you questions here. Have a great day.

[@ms.reeferfoxx9172]

Does Inappropriate reefer edit your videos? Very similar background music

[@jahsreef8386]

Because of my mandarin I try to buy pods every four months to make sure he’s fat and happy. I always add at lights off also

[@jchurchill75]

I just added pods as finally after one year got my mandarin!!

[@aarushmadhireddy4326]

can i dose pods and then get a mandarin my tanks 40 gallons 2 clowns 4 months old

[@jennychurchill5428]

@@aarushmadhireddy4326 as long as your adding pods at least monthly then yes. Not sure set up you have but if can add pods to a pod hotel in your sump.

[@jennychurchill5428]

Pod hotels work great. Toss one in sump

[@jchurchill75]

One year I gave coralline algae all over my live rocks but only small blobs I call anyway on tank glass.

[@luislopez3714]

Good video thank bro

[@eatsleepreef9565]

😊🤙🏼

[@bongosreef9406]

Subscribed :)))

[@MrMx297]

For this 50g mode aquarium is the sump that comes with the tank able to run a refugium in? Also is the 50g referring to display volume or system volume? Doesn't specify on Mode website.

[@eatsleepreef9565]

Yes the stock sump has a very nice size fuge about 10x10”. The 50 is tank volume along not counting sump.

[@MrMx297]

Would the 50g with that size of fuge be sufficient size to sustain enough pods for a mandarin? I would seed the tank and allow tank to mature before ever getting the mandarin. I also would get a captive bred mandarin so hopefully can feed it frozen and pellets. Thoughts please.

[@desireerudolph5992]

@@MrMx297 also consider if you have other fish that will compete with mandarins for pods. I am hoping to be able to have a good pod population so that I can have a dragonet but right now my firefish are happily munching pods ALLLLLLL day long. The one will sometimes eat offered foods but the other one completely ignores offered foods (with the exception of chopped clams that he will come eat) and strictly hunts the pods. So I will have to watch and hopefully I can get a pod population to the point that I can have both the dragonet and the firefish fat and happy eating their pods.

[@MrMx297]

@@desireerudolph5992 yea I kinda plan to have a wrasse as well prolly before the mandarin and that's almost a gaurantee that it will munch on pods to.

[@pauldeacon8764]

Hi! loved the video! could u tell me please, u know the music u play in the background, who is it please?? 😀👍

[@eatsleepreef9565]

DJ quads

[@alexvids9232]

no need to order more. just grow them out with phyto in separate bucket or feed tank phyto.

[@rulasmays8132]

Hello! good info thanks. My tank is barely 5 months old and haven't added nothing and I already have a pod infestation haha!! I am amazed at how many of them there is I clean the glass one day and in a matter of hours is full again I guess I should add a mandarin by now. what do you think?

[@EttoreBazan]

Hey what Percent is ur xr at ??

[@eatsleepreef9565]

Not sure what your referring to

[@zafishguy5166]

Does adding pods to a tank like my nuvo 60 without a refugium have any benefit?

[@semisuccessfulreefer220]

For sure

[@desireerudolph5992]

Yes, but it will be harder for the pods to become a self sustaining population. The refugium gives them space to breed and grow without predation from fish. To keep population going without refugium you will likely need to periodically add some. Likely a few will escape predation in the rockwork but not likely great numbers.

[@rja9784]

You don’t need a refugium for copepods to survive

[@UltimateAPBTS]

What size tank is that?🤔

[@eatsleepreef9565]

Modeaquariums infinity 50

[@UltimateAPBTS]

@@eatsleepreef9565 Thank you for the fast response...🔺🔺🔺

[@chsc5045]

man i hope you invest on a new mic.