Anyone running a Pod farm in separate container

[nightmarepl]

Looking for some info on pod farming if anyone does this

 

[Rueric]

I have done so before, what questions do you have?

 

[Salted]

Lots of threads on this on Reef2reef. The one that interested me was very simple. Pods, salt water and a banana peel in a small tub, put it outside and done.

 

[Rueric]

Lots of threads on this on Reef2reef. The one that interested me was very simple. Pods, salt water and a banana peel in a small tub, put it outside and done.

thats pretty awesome, did they use an air bubble to create some bit of water movement?

 

[Salted]

I don’t think they even did that. The total hands off simplicity is what caught my interest. This hobby has too many ancillary chores already.

 

[MadReefer]

I don’t think they even did that. The total hands off simplicity is what caught my interest. This hobby has too many ancillary chores already.

This is the R2R thread about the banana peel.
Help culturing copepods

 

[Mark_C]

Intrigued and have been looking at a lot of the vids for the outdoor method.
I think some people are confused as many of the 'massive pod growth' vids actually appear to be mosquito larva.

 

[Rjmul]

I just run a refugium

 

[NJTaxMan]

I have tried doing pods three times and the communities crashed each time. I was told they are easy..but i have had zero luck

 

[MadReefer]

Reef Central pod culture no aeration.
copepod culturing - Reef Central Online Community

 

[Boehmtown]

I did it in a 2 gallon tea container, tisbe pods and I used phyto and fish food. It did very well changing a gallon of water a week. But I got lazy and it crashed. I think it's more worth getting some eBay pods and phyto and just breed them out for a few cycles, dose them all clean everything and start over once in a while.

 

[mnat]

We have done it two ways. One with just some pods on a widow sill in a vase. Swap some water between the tank every few days with the tigger pods and this culture can go for a while. Eventually it does crash, but you can get a long time for one bottle of pods. We also now are running the air tube powered one with a half a soda bottle and that has also worked very well.

 

[Foxchase]

I have tried doing pods three times and the communities crashed each time. I was told they are easy..but i have had zero luck

I've had the same luck

 

[Boehmtown]

Little tips I noticed made a difference were... Very slow bubble rate. Like a bubble a second. They like the container a little dirty/mulmy. I use full reef salinity. Put a light on the container, even a dim one 24/7 is better than none. And they are very sensitive to ammonia , I accomplished this with 50 percent water changes weekly. And don't over harvest.