OceanPods. Pre-order. A First for Ireland

Hi Everyone.
Seahorse Aquarium with our ties to many aquaculture facilities across the world is bringing in OceanPods (live Copepods) into Ireland for the first time.

These are Copepod (3 different cultures, over 1000 creatures in total) that are cultivated for marine aquariums to start or boost copepods in your aquarium / refugium.

As they need to be placed in your tank within 2 days we have a batch of 20 units arriving from the USA on Thursday 14th April via Fed Ex. They are €19.99 a bottle and will not last so pre-order if you are interested? Please post here on the forum or email in to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 1 bottle per tank is sufficient as they will multiply.

Here is some more information on the product;

Ocean Pods is a unique product for the hobbyist. It is a combination of 3 species of copepods for starting or restocking your live rock copepod populations.

Ocean Pods are 100% aquacultured copepods that have been field-tested with multiple species of fish and invertebrates to ensure that there are not harmful interactions with your tank inhabitants.

They can be added directly to your tank and make a great live food for mandarin gobies, seahorses, pipefish, yellow tangs, clownfish, scooter blennies, corals, ornamental shrimp and many more species enjoyed by reef enthusiasts.

For more information see www.oceanpods.com/faq.html


Acclimation Procedures

Essential Live Feeds Copepods are shipped in a 4 oz. bottle at 28 ppt to 32 ppt salinity (1.022 to 1.025) with a little bit of food (this food will not harm your tank residents). Copepods will settle to the bottom during shipping, so if you open the bottle and don't see any, try shaking it up and holding it up to the light or pouring them into a clear jar or tupperware container (NOTE - make sure there is no soap residue on any of your culture containers - this upsets the 'pods).

You can add them directly to the tank after bringing them up to the temperature of the water, or you can get some water from your tank, and combine about 25% of the bottle of the copepods to this water, and check in 15 minutes to see how they are doing. If there is going to be an adverse reaction of the copepods, it will happen rather quickly, so you should know. (Of course, if there is something wrong enough with the water that it's killing harpacticoid copepods, then there's something very amiss with the system. These things live in highly variable environments and can withstand rapid salinity and temperature changes.)

Usually, if that first 25% make it, then just go ahead and add all the copepods to the tank water, and within a few weeks you will see a bloom. A bloom is easily detected at night by shining a flashlight on the side of the tank.

Hello all,

We are please to let you know that we are expecting arrival of 25 bottles of OceanPods this Wednesday.

Please contact us if you are after a bottle as we do not expect these items to last.

We have all new licenses and permits so these should not be a problem to arrive into the EU this time.

Many thanks

The Seahorse Team.

Hi all,

Only 8 containers of Pods left as flying out the door.

People whom have reserved there pods please come and grab them when you can.

this is a very good post, with very good information about the product and even an added link for further reading. well done.

derek wrote:

this is a very good post, with very good information about the product and even an added link for further reading. well done.

I agree.
And would go even further to suggest that the non-commercial info and the link here be put up as a thread of its own in view of supporting a means for supporting the health of our (well...other peoples) livestock.
I looked at these yesterday in the shop......and was intrigued myself to see them....and if I still kept marine tanks, then these would have been in my bag home.

(apologies to admin for adding my comments on a commercial thread).

ian