Copepod Blend

Orders are bottled and fulfilled up to 1 week from purchase. Selling 16oz bottles of copepod blend strains.

Benthic:

Tigriopus californicus 

Adults are large and visible to the naked eye making it perfect for picky fish. The bright colors make it easy for fish like mandarins and pipefish to spot. Can reproduce in reef aquaria but difficult to maintain

• Benthic 
• 250 - 1500 microns
• Highly resilient to temperature and salinity
• Rich in fatty acids and pigments

Tisbe biminiensis 

A fast breeding grazer of film algae. Even though it is so tiny it produces in such numbers that foraging fish such as wrasse and gobies will be well fed at all times. Perfect for eating leftover foods in the tiniest of crevices. Can reproduce in reef aquaria

• Benthic
• 15 - 200 microns
• Highly reproductive
• Can provides staple nutrition regardless of gut loading 

Apocyclops panamensis 

This pod is capable of adapting food sources, environments, and even reproduction rates to survive but will not outcompete other pods. Perfect for rounding out diversity and feeding all fish, coral, inverts. Can reproduce in reef aquaria

• Benthic 
• 70 - 700 microns
• High in acids, pigment, and protein

 Euterpina acutifrons

A herbivorous pod requiring a diverse diet to thrive. Very tolerant of changes in salinity, it can be found in high concentrations where light "settles." Reproduces in reef aquaria

• Benthic
  
• 100 - 300 microns
• A small pod capable of traveling to where the food is
  

Pelagic:

Parvocalanus crassirostris

  The small size makes it the ideal feed for larval fish. Reproduction rates on par with the densest of rotifer cultures but much more nutritious without the need for gut loading.  The cultivation of this copepod paved the way for captive bred mandarins, yellow tangs, orchid dottybacks, melanurus wrasse, butterflyfish, chromis, damsels, etc.

• Pelagic
• 50 - 200 microns
• Highly dense feed akin to rotifers but much higher gut loading potential 
• Requires Live Phytoplankton

Acartia tonsa

• Pelagic
• 500 - 1500 microns
• Used in aquaculture for nauplii and adult sizes
  
• Requires Live Phytoplankton

Pseudodiaptomus pelagicus

• Pelagic
• up to 1200 microns
• Highly adaptive feed that grows in high density 
• Requires Live Phytoplankton