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Reef Legends
5.0 / 5.0
(5) 5 total reviews
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Apocyclops copepods are medium size, slightly larger than tisbe and slightly smaller than Tigriopus copepods. Youll see these guys jerking in the water column, enticing smaller fish to eat. Apocyclops females will lay eggs every 4-6 days, meaning you can harvest them on a weekly basis if you're culturing them.
These are a great source of protein for your fish, while providing nutritional benefits that are hard to provide in other feeds. Our Apocylcops are fed our 11 strain blend of phytoplankton twice a day and are shipped with live nanno in each bottle to prevent them from starving.
Apocyclops have ferocious appetites, they will consume nuisance algae in your reef aquaria.
Plenty of Pods in the bottle, all arrived healthy. Will order again.
Awesome!
Apocyclops panamensis
Met Skyler at a coral show and let me say I’m
Glad I did! I was an algae barn customer before I saw his pod and rotifers mix. You get double the product for the same price and the amount of pods and rotifers in each bottle is extremely noticeable!! Great product!!!
The owner is very friendly if you have any questions you always answers or gets back to you like within an hour or so is products are wonderful and he dedicates a very large room to culturing his own pods and phytoplankton and a sterile environment with no fish or any sort of wild or any possibility of fish diseases or invertebrates housed with these pods and phytoplankton a 16 oz bottle is plenty enough to start your own culture Even though I still buy more it's almost like dipping that whole bottle in there and plus having a small culture going because the bottles are so full you just can't resist dumping the whole bottle into your tank shutting the pumps off and everything and let them settle on the rocks and substrate 10 stars
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2nd time ordering from these guys and every batch have been great! The price, packaging and speed of delivery will not disappoint
After two failed attempts to culture R. Salina, I had given up. After watching Skyler's video, I mustered up the courage to try again. He explained there is a difference between phyto for feeding and phyto for culturing. I followed his procedure, and 9 days later I harvested. 1.5 quarts. The extra steps I took to sanitize everything, and to sterilize the media made a big difference. Thank you, Skyler!!!
Starter and harvest pics:
RL is my new go-to store for phyto. Skyler was extremely helpful by answering all of my questions quickly and concisely. I sent him pictures of my first harvest of T-iso, which was golden brown. He told me it would get darker, and he was absolutely correct. His video of how he cultures Rhodomonas Salina has given me the courage to try it again after two failed attempts. Pic of first T-iso harvest after 10 days, and of the 2nd harvest after 7 days.
The bottle of Tisochrysis lutea arrived quickly, and in great condition. I started the culture within an hour, and 10 days later I harvested a quart of beautiful Tahitian gold! It's a wonderful addition to my Tet and Nanno harvests that I'm feeding to my copepod cultures and tanks. Any questions I had were quickly answered, and all is going as planned. I'm a happy camper!!!
I received Rhodomonas Salina and isochrysis galbana phytoplankton as well as tibse and apocyclopse copepods and they are doing great! I have already harvested 6g of nice dark phyto and the pods love it. The pod cultures were swarming with nauplii and have since grown exponentially. My tanks are very happy with the added diversity. Highly recommend Reef Legends! Customer service was great too.
Best pods on the market! Customer for life!
All orders have been packaged well and everything looks great on arrival
Heavy duty and well built. Paid for itself the first time you use it!
The starting culture was fantastic! It is doing very well for me
