How do I add phyto and pods to my tank? I’m glad you asked. When you new product arrives, place in refrigerator until ready to use.
Remove pods from your fridge and acclimate to aquarium temperature for best results. Add pods to your tank 1-2 hours after lights out with my return pump off, for the best survival rate (avoids a feeding frenzy), this allows them to find a home in the rock work. That is when I dose in my refugium as well, but not as necessary as no fish to immediately attack them.
After dosing pods, it is best to dose the aquarium with phyto daily to ensure they have a ready food source. Yes many will survive in waste and other algae in the tank, but this provides the optimum environment for them.
Dosing Phytoplankton is also hugely beneficial to all of the organisms in your aquarium, whether providing nutrients to pods and corals, live phytoplankton will consume nitrates and phosphates as it continues to grow. Remove phyto from the fridge, shake bottle and measure to dose 10 ml per 10 gallons Fish only tanks, 30 ml per 10 Gallons Mixed reefs, and 50 ml per 10 gallons for reef with non photosynthetic organisms.
Remove pods from your fridge and acclimate to aquarium temperature for best results. Add pods to your tank 1-2 hours after lights out with my return pump off, for the best survival rate (avoids a feeding frenzy), this allows them to find a home in the rock work. That is when I dose in my refugium as well, but not as necessary as no fish to immediately attack them.
After dosing pods, it is best to dose the aquarium with phyto daily to ensure they have a ready food source. Yes many will survive in waste and other algae in the tank, but this provides the optimum environment for them.
Dosing Phytoplankton is also hugely beneficial to all of the organisms in your aquarium, whether providing nutrients to pods and corals, live phytoplankton will consume nitrates and phosphates as it continues to grow. Remove phyto from the fridge, shake bottle and measure to dose 10 ml per 10 gallons Fish only tanks, 30 ml per 10 Gallons Mixed reefs, and 50 ml per 10 gallons for reef with non photosynthetic organisms.