Reef Nutrition Apex Pods | 6oz

Apex-Pods are an excellent food source that attracts finicky fish, such as Mandarin Dragonets, Pipefish, Anthias sp. and Wrasses.  This copepod can also be fed to invertebrates, such as SPS, LPS and NPS corals, as well as other filter feeders. Smaller than Reef Nutrition’s Tigger-Pods®, stage 1 nauplii are approximately 70 micron and adults are approximately 600 to 700 microns.

Features
• Super nutritious: Apex-Pods will give your tank a healthy boost because they are fed on Reef Nutrition's super-concentrated, microalgal-based, premium quality feeds.

• Highest density: Our bottles are by far the most concentrated on the market. More value for your money.
• Easy to Culture: Perfect for direct feeding, culturing or stocking new tanks and refugia, Apex-Pods breed rapidly, producing hundreds of eggs per female.
• Your clean-up crew: Not only do Apex-Pods boost biodiversity in your tank, they gobble up organic waste!

 

Directions and Dosage
With the cap popped open, let the bottle stand at room temp for about 2 hours to allow the temperature to rise. Salinity acclimation is not necessary.

Note: Apex-Pods™ bottles contain approximately 2,000 juvenile and adult Apocyclops panamensis copepods.

Package size/volume
6oz, Stage 1 nauplii are approximately 70 micron and adults are approximately 600 to 700 microns.

Storage
DO NOT REFRIGERATE! Pop the cap upon arrival and during acclimation. After acclimation to room temperature, Apex-Pods should be added to the tank or culture vessel within 24 hours of arrival or purchase from a store. Depending on predators and tank size, Apex-Pods may need to be replenished routinely. To help promote a population, it is recommended that you feed phytoplankton to the tank often. Our Phyto-Feast is an ideal food for these animals and will also provide nutrition for many other invertebrates in your reef aquarium.