Artcipods from Reef Nutrition (Reed)

[Len]

Big thumbs up for this product 8) I received a 32 ounce bottle yesterday and my fish absolutely love this stuff. My angels weren't eating much of frozen mysis or froze O.N. Prime Reef, but they ate up the Arctipods with fervor. My wrasses, which are always pigs, love these red pods too.

Arctipods are about the size of mature brine shrimps but a lot more nutritious They way they're packaged, all I have to do is take the bottle out of the freeze, pop up the drinking-style lid (the type you find on bottles of water), and squeeze a few drops into the tank. No more thawing or extra containers.

I'll report back in a couple of months on how this diet effects the coloration of my fish. I have little doubt that with so much red carotene in Arctipods, my fish will get brighter in color.

 

[Anonymous]

I think I saw some of those at the WMC. The saltwater doesn't freeze?

 

[Anonymous]

Can we see pics of yout tank being fed?

 

[Len]

Oops. I meant refrigerator, not freezer. You don't freeze it.

Sneaky Rob can't fool me!

 

[Anonymous]

I tried Arctipods too, a few months ago. My fish also went nuts for it.

I highly recommend them.

I need to order some more Arctipods. I ran out a few weeks ago.

I did not use it as a primary feed. I offered it as a supplemental feed. I like to feed krill, silversides, frozen prime reef or frozen formula one, as the main meal each night.

I supplement with arcticpods, cyclopeeze, and spirulina flake.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

Yup, love them arctipods too. I picked up a freebe sample of it from Reed at the BA-CFM and my fish definately do go apesh*t over it. Then again they're not picky eaters at all. I don't feed it everyday, but what the product does do it allows me to get a good rotation of foods between mysis, arctipods, formula one flakes, formula two flakes, etc.

And if you have corals, Roti-feast is a great coral food.

 

[Anonymous]

Do you get your rotofeast and arctipods? LFS?

 

[Len]

I got them direct. You might want to ask your LFS to carry these

 

[Anonymous]

yeah, good luck with that one lol. I am lucky if most here have salt water in their reef tanks lol.

 

[Anonymous]

Go to reefnutrition.com, and you can order direct.

Great stuff!

 

[Anonymous]

or wait fot the sponsor banner to roll by, and click it

 

[Anonymous]

They way they're packaged, all I have to do is take the bottle out of the freeze, pop up the drinking-style lid (the type you find on bottles of water), and squeeze a few drops into the tank. No more thawing or extra containers.

No qualms about adding the 'pods with the water they were packed in adding excess nutrients to you tank or is it such a small amount it's not worrysome?

 

[Len]

So far, it hasn't crossed my mind. If I get algae blooms, I'll look into straining it. I don't think much excess water/liquid is there since it's syrupy/goopy (yay, I used goopy in a sentence!). It's about the same as thawing out and adding mysis. You get some fatty oils but that's about it.

 

[Anonymous]

I don't think there is much nutrient in that water... look pretty crystal clean saltwater to me. Since reefnutrition.com does not sell cleanup crews, I don't think they would purposely add thing in the culture water just to make more money when algae blooms. If most of the pods look alive and swimming, I won't worry too much about it. If you are paranoid, by all mean, strain the pods out with a very fine mesh, and drain the liquid away.

I wish the pods can establish a little colony in my fish tank, but appearantly, they all got eaten up.

 

[Anonymous]

I think Gresham uses a straw and sucks out most of the nutrient goop from every bottle

 

[Anonymous]

:lol: SFS!!!

 

[Anonymous]

OK, this thread has split directions. Seven ephors is talking about Tigger-Pods, live copepods, and the rest of yah are talking about Arcti-Pods, non live copepod concentrate.

The water in Tigger-Pods has nothing added, except a bit of Phyto-Feast to them to feed on.

Arcti-Pods are in a alginate and water solution. No phosphate is added to any of our products. They are preserved with a few different acids, which upon contact with marine systems, get bufferred out instantly.

Any uneaten food, whether it be a flake, or even a live food, will break down into PO4 if uneaten (and in the case of live, when it dies). Over feeding is a problem with all foods. People need to reconize their tanks metabolism and stick to what it can handle as a whole.

 

[Anonymous]

Sorry for the confusion. It is my fault.

 

[Anonymous]

GreshamH
thanks for the clarification! I'll remember that.