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Live Copepods For Sale

 

This listing is for freshly harvested Tisbe Biminiensis Copepods. In each bottle, you will receive a mix of LIVE tisbe Copepods (mix of babies/juveniles/adults), great for culturing or seeding your tank.

Tisbe Biminiensis - Live Copepods

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PriceFrom $16.16
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One-time purchase
$17.95
Endless Tisbe Pods
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$16.16every 2 weeks until canceled
Monthly Tisbe Pods
$17.05every month until canceled
  • Live Copepods are a fantastic way of adding biodiversity to your reef aquarium. They serve as members of your cleanup crew, eating detritus and improving water quality. In addition, their small size makes them excellent at getting into the tiniest crevices in your live rock and eating waste inaccessible to snails and crabs.

     

    Pods are also the only food some picky fish will eat; examples include mandarins, pipefish, and some wrasses. These fish generally won't eat anything but live food, and copepods are their preferred menu item! Your corals also love to eat copepods, which helps them gain the nutrients they need to grow and maintain optimum health.

     

    Tisbe are the smallest of the three types of copepods we stock. Tisbe pods are nocturnal, which helps protect them from predation (allowing them to build a robust, self-sustaining colony in your tank). Adults of this species prefer to live in your live rock and on your glass, eating detritus all night. Mandarins, in particular, love to eat Tisbe pods. Live copepods are a great natural reef aquarium food for your fish and corals.