This listing is for:
- 8oz of Freshly harvested Live Copepods
- Tisbe Biminiensis
- Tigriopus Californicus
- Apocyclops
- 8oz of High Quality Feeder/Dosing Phytoplankton
- 8oz of Live Marine Rotifers (L-Strain)
- 8oz of stable reef water
- Containing Live Coralline Algae shavings
- Beneficial live bacteria for seeding a reef tank
Live Seeder Kit (8oz Copepods / 8oz Rotifers / Phytoplankton / Coralline Algae)
Phytoplankton are small single cell organisms that are essential to the growth and sustainment of corals, copepods, and several other species of marine life. If you are looking for high quality Phytoplankton for your copepods, or if you want to culture your own Phytoplankton, you're in the right place!
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 or 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.
Tigriopus are the largest type of copepod we offer. This live copepod species is a pelagic, or free-swimming, copepod. The large size and peculiar swimming motion of the Tigriopus make it easy to catch and are perfect for feeding your coral and fish.
Apocylops are a little bit smaller and harder for fish to catch than Tigriopus. Combined with the fact that it is a prolific breeder, it is easier for Apocyclops to begin a self-sustaining colony in your tank. Young Apocyclops prefer to live in your rocks and eat detritus; as they grow into adults, they become free-swimming and make an excellent target for fish and corals. Apocyclops are prolific breeders and will quickly form a self-sustaining colony in your tank.Rotifers an essential element of the food chain and critical to Marine Life in your tank and great for feeding larval fish and coral.
Once your tank is seeded with Rotifers, daily dosing of Live Phytoplankton will ensure the extended life and reproduction of the your rotifers, so definitely check out our Live Phytoplankton to add to your order!
Rotifers reproduce quickly and are naturally found in diverse habitats where they have adapted to tolerate wide ranges in temperature, oxygen, and salinity, making them robust in culture.
These can be refrigerated for several weeks before using to start a culture or as a live feed.
Coralline algae are rock-hard calcareous red algae that fulfill two key functional roles in coral reef ecosystems: they contribute significantly to reef calcification and cementation, and they induce larval settlement of many benthic organisms.
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Label content will vary and change, please look for the checkbox on left of the label for actual contents of bottle. Care instructions for the item will be on the right side. Please refer to listing images, for example of bottle label and use.
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Live items cannot be returned as they are sensitive to shipping, so all sales are final.
Buyer agrees to check and report issues with any live item purchased within 1 hour of delivery (based on carrier delivery time).
*Florida Reef Labs will review any claim and upon approval, will credit buyers account for future purchases.
(DOA), please contact us and provide a photo AND video of the shipment, along with original packaging (bottle and shipping container) WITHIN 1 HOUR of carrier recorded delivery time.
We ship all live products in an insulated bag with cold/heat packs to ensure alive arrival. Due to colder temperatures, the product may go into a hibernation state (not moving/or slowly moving). Please allow them to remain in room temperature for 1 hour before use.
There are approximately a 1 ounce air pocket in each bottle; we intentionally leave an air pocket so the animals can breathe in transit.
We ship in insulated bag with cold/heat packs to ensure live arrival.
We ship Monday - Wednesday ONLY - For any orders placed after Wednesday, you may receive notification of shipment, but that is just the generation of the shipping label. Shipping will proceed on that following Monday unless it's a holiday ***
If weather is a factor in shipping, cold/heat/hurricane, we will ship on next available Monday - Wednesday window to ensure live arrival.
Reviews
I purchased the Live Seeder kit with Coralline Algae along with an additional 16 oz bottle of copopods. I received a neatly packaged box with cooling pads, directions, the various bottles all tightly organized. Everything was alive and now my copopods are thriving. I know this because I see the larger ones all over my glass. If you need copopods (and you do!), I’d highly recommend Florida Reef Labs. I’ll be back for sure.
Great company great customer service if you have any issues reach out their team is so dedicated to make your experience above and beyond even if there is a hurricane in Florida and the post office delayed shipping .
I’m extremely happy with this purchase. Thank you for this high quality product.🍀
Fast shipping arrived alive. Nice combo for starting out new reef tank.