I remember my first few months of having a saltwater tank I happened to see one on my glass and freaked thinking it was one of those bad hitch hikers I've heard about. I managed to catch it in a small plastic cup and brought it into my lfs. I still remember the guy at the counter was like, bruh.

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

HAHAHAHA that is awesome 😂

@MermaidMakes

Ай бұрын

This just happened to me, but I knew that one of the pet shop plant tanks had them, so I realized it must have been introduced through that. At first I thought they might be a planarian and panicked

Been binge watching lot's of your content over the last few weeks while my tank cycles! Very, very helpful stuff! Thank you!

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

Can’t thank you enough for watching! Reach out if you ever have any questions

@IndoorEcosystem

6 ай бұрын

@@BrockLeonard Shall do! For now I've got more to binge!

im so happy youre still posting! I LOVE COPEPODS

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

I appreciate you always coming out to watch😁

Awesome vid mate 🤙🏽

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for coming out Steve!🔥

Hi 😀. I got a jar with water from a pond and within a month I found lots of copepods. Can I add them to my freshwater aquarium and if they are safe for shrimp's eggs , new hatched shrimps and guppy fry ? Thank you in advance 🤗

I found the freshwater copepods in my shrimp tank recently after I added sand with triops eggs, that means that maybe copepod eggs were in the sand too, or in the water that my shrimp came in as I added that water from their bag into my aquarium to acclimate them faster.

I been in the hobby for like idk 10-15 years and I just learned about copepods a few months back interesting little critters. I've always done a fowlr setup with aggressive fish I'm sure I would have learned about them doing a reef aquarium anyway I'm going to start looking I have never noticed any. Thanks good informational video

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

Love a good fowlr tank. What kind of aggressive fish did you have? Thanks for watching too! Means a lot

Cheers Brock 👍

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

Tonyyyy!!! Appreciate you always coming out. Hope you have a good weekend💪🏼

Can you make more video about more corals

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

You got it, my friend! 💪🏼

Thanks Brock

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for coming out!!😁

In my experience I cultivate without knowing and they multiply as 🚀 I used shrimp and I left it in my tank to cycle few weeks later the shrimp discomposed and a little animal start colonized the complete tank , my first fish was a clown fish which have a lots of food to survive now I have a lots variety of fish but I don’t see many of copépodos.. some know what food I can give them?

Great episode! I already have one mandarin and can't imagine her depleting my copepod population as they're everywhere. Was thinking about getting the psychedelic mandarin in addition. Wonder if the copepod population would be depleted if I choose to have two mandarins in a 50 gallon? I mean there's a lot!

@paulkyriakides144

6 ай бұрын

I breed copepods in buckets with tank water from water changes, no lights, no air pump, no heater, I drop a little piece of Hikari algae wafer in the buckets every 3 days. Been doing this for 2 years and never killed the population even with temperature going as low as 5 degrees celsius and salinity going as high as 1.030

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

If you got a lot, add two!

I have some hair algae growing. Not terrible yet..is there anything else other then I myself and astrea snails that get rid of it? The snails have done excellent in the past tho

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

Other hitchhikers can help too. Ever tried hermits or an urchin?

Miss your vids bro. Keep it up.

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

Holiday season gets a little crazy haha. Thanks for always coming by!💪🏼

@ahmedelzanfally9451

6 ай бұрын

@@BrockLeonard enjoy the holidays bro! Cheers

I noticed you have the two types of mandarines,are they aggressive towards each other ?

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

Nope, never had any aggression issues. Main thing to remember is keeping enough pods in the tank for both of them.

Great video man. I've always wondered two things when it comes to copepods. 1: Can i put in too many? (I usually put two bottles of Tigger pods into my 180 with 20 gallon refugium bi-weekly) I was told by other hobbyist, that dead copepods can drive up nitrate levels and 2: Will i lose a good portion of copepods by placing them in a refugium with a protein skimmer? ( It seems to me that would be the case after acclimation.) What do you think about these two questions? Happy Holidays.....

@McReef2950

6 ай бұрын

The pods once established should be reproducing enough to maintain themselves. Put something in there for them to hide and reproduce in. I haven’t put any pods in my tank in years but there are hundreds of pods in my filter floss everytime I change it. I let them move into the new floss I use before throwing it away. If they aren’t reproducing there probably isn’t enough in the tank to keep them safe.

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

Having too many won’t cause issues with your fish and corals but it can cause a depletion of available food. So I’d definitely recommend some phyto feast just to make sure they were eating enough to continue reproducing. If you can put enough coverage like macro algae or filter pads in the refugium they should still be able to reproduce

Hey Brock Do you have any knowledge on the Oxycheilinus bimaculatus

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

Gah I haven’t seen that specific two spot wrasse in a long time. They behave similar to a Christmas wrasse tho

@kaptainkpop6750

6 ай бұрын

@@BrockLeonard I just bought one today cuz I traded my aggressive aptasia eatin file fish for store credit. Since it had the skin design like a file fish I decided to give it a shot but there’s not a lot of care videos on the internet about it.

👍🏼👍🏼👊🏼👊🏼

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

That’s for being here Jerry!😄

@numberkidtheprimenumberfan1979

6 ай бұрын

​@@BrockLeonard Copepod

Bro is it possible to culture coral reef? Reef is a source of calcium carbonate

My gsp is not open. What do i do.

@BrockLeonard

6 ай бұрын

First step for me is always checking salinity, and water parameters. Nitrate and ammonia can be a real kicker. After that, I’d check what’s around the gsp, is there another coral stinging? After that, how long are you running your lights?

@sudiptamukherjee7435

6 ай бұрын

6hours

2mm is more than enough to crearly identify them without a microscope. Feed your fish with live food and your aquarium will be a way more cleaner 😎.

@ThePthinker

5 ай бұрын

What size microscope would you recommend to see them more clearly for identification?

😩 *Promosm*