Pods... do I have them?

[djmpj2]

My tank is a year old. I am wondering if I have pods, or enough of them to support a mandarin yet. I'm not really sure what they look like. I did a search here and it seems people find them on their glass. I don't really have too much on my glass besides the occasional coraline deposits.

DJ

 

[Brenden]

Get in the middle of the night and shine a flashlight in your tank. If you see little specks swimming everywhere you have pods.

 

[djmpj2]

I don't think I have them. Why would that be?

DJ

 

[tecwzrd]

Not sure why you don’t have them since you have LR. If you want to add them you can just buy live ones.
http://www.reefnutrition.com/
http://sciencekit.com/category.asp?c=435228

 

[fishrfreinds]

well they come with LS.

 

[SkinnyPete]

You'd really be pushing it with that system IMO. I know they say 75lbs lr min. for a mandarin, but I have a 150lbs of lr with a small HOB fuge and my mandarin, unfortunately, isn't exactly fat. In fact, I'm crossing my fingers that he'll make it while I build a refugium. They deplete your population pretty quickly.

Can you add a fuge to your setup? This will give the pods somewhere to repopulate. You could turn any old 20gallon tank into a refugium. As far as introducing pods, you can get live sand, or when you add a fuge - grab some chaeto from local aquarists.

 

[djmpj2]

We are seriously considering setting up a fuge but are pretty clueless on how to do it. We have a corner unit so the space under is limited and shaped odd. We have been researching it online.

DJ