OCReef's Live Marine Copepods 6 oz bottle/container

Copepods are a type of marine zooplankton. They are a fundamental part of the marine ecosystem, making up the largest source of protein in the ocean. Feeding your fish and invertebrates copepods reproduces nature and helps create an environment in your marine aquarium for fishes and corals not just to survive, but to thrive!

Please take all necessary precautions so the culture does not get completely eaten by resident fish before they can begin to repopulate.

Features:

• Each Bottle includes free swimming copepods.
• Cultivated in ozonated, purified saltwater.
• Only fed the highest quality phytoplankton, to ensure the safety of adding directly to your aquarium.
• High nutritional content, full of essential fatty acids (HUFAs).

HELPFUL TIPS:

It is safe to add these copepods and the water directly to the saltwater aquarium, reef tank, or refugium as the water is made up only of filtered salt water, copepods, and phytoplankton (the copepods' food source).

If dosing directly into a saltwater aquarium with the intention of creating a continuous population, it is best to do it after the tank lights have shut off to prevent all the fish from instantly devouring the new tasty additions. 40 to 50 eggs will hatch every other day from happy copepods.

Recommendations...

Copepods For Fish: Green Mandarin (Synchiropus splendidus) Spotted Mandarin (Synchiropus picturatus) Dragonets (Callionymidae family) Scooter Blennies (Synchiropus ocellatus) Pipefish, Dwarf Seahorses (Hippocampus zostrae) Juvenile Seahorses, Anthias Chromis, Firefish, Angelfish, Butterfly Fish, Wrasses, and Goby species.

Copepods For Inverts: Gorgonians, Sun Corals (Tubastraea spp.) LPS Corals, Chili Coral, Carnation Coral, Lace Coral (Distichopora spp./Scleronephthya spp.) Black Coral (Antipathes spp.) Chironephthya spp. Soft Corals, Ornamental Shrimp, Porcelain Crabs, Anemone Crabs, Jellyfish, Octopus, and Stars.

Copepods For Aquariums: Saltwater Aquariums, Reef Aquariums, Fish Only Aquariums, Nano Reefs, Refugiums, Aquaculture, Rearing Larval, Fry Refreshing, Live Sand, Populting/Acclimating Live Rock, and Detritus Control.

Note: Water may appear a little murky in the container upon delivery, this is perfectly normal as some of this is nutrients/foods for the copepods and is not harmful. Copepods may be in a suspended state when you receive them from the ice packs/gel packs. They will soon be more active when they reach a more warm temperature.

Note: Will not ship out on Weekends or Holidays. Package will resume delivery following.