* Reef Legends Giveaway!! 6 WINNERS!! $1100+ in PRIZES!! *

Mschmidt · Mar 7, 2024

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ReefLegends · Mar 7, 2024

Gretchacha said:
Website bonus:
I would like to try live grown out brine shrimp to stock in my tanks before traveling. They seem out of stock right now. I like the idea of the combo phyto and pod package, too. What I don’t see on your site is information on how many pods are in each bottle size (approximately how concentrated the bottle is) and I would love to but amphipods as well, so a suggestion there for expansion of products that would make buying live foods from you more appealing than from other vendors.

Thanks for the input, pod counts vary per week. If you go to our instagram you can see pod bottles that are packed for the week. I've ordered several sizes and pod counts from various vendors who put numbers on bottles and none of them are accurate. For any company that puts those numbers on the bottle and cannot provide the data on how they count per bottle, this can lead to a lawsuit. On the 16 ounce bottles there are "thousands of pods" which you can see in each bottle.

This was a topic at Reefstock, this is why I also bring a flashlight, each pod bottle is about even in pod numbers. While at Reefstock our Apocyclops pod bottles were bottled on Wednesday and by Sunday you could see all the Nauplii in each bottle. I had to explain that this is not how each bottle will look as only adults 120 micron size and above are harvested. I also showed off our Rotifer bottles and density, those are counted each week and are pretty reliable. If you are buying pods and cannot see x number in a bottle you are buying water. Also if your buying a mix bottle of pods with Apocyclops their metabolism is higher, if they go 4-6 days without food, when you add them to your system they are going to die before reproducing. I know this will cause some uproar with other companies, the same applies to any bottle with rotifers, if they aren't packed in phytoplankton, when you get them in 2-4 days, the die off will be high and the amount that survive will be minimal to none.

With this said, I have ordered from Reef Nutrition multiple times, they claim x number of rotifers per bag and they provide x amount over. I'll tell you that the million bag gives you more than a million and the 5 million will give you 6-6.5 million per bag. The 1 million bag is a better deal than the 5 million bag and I address those findings with Chad at Reefstock. Also out of all the Apocyclops test orders, Reef Nutrition had the highest success rate and the salinity in the bottles was at 30ppt and while that number my change slightly, Reef Nutrition provides true numbers on every product i've done a test on.

All of our pods/rotifers are bottled with live phytoplankton for a road trip snack all of our pods are grown in clean sterile instant ocean salt water. Each pod is grown between 33-35 ppt and adapt well to your reef aquarium. While salt is expensive, the pods you are buying are expensive, growing and bottling at the correct salinity shouldn't be big of an expense overall. Each pod strain has their own harvesting equipment and harvested at different times of the week to avoid contamination. Our Tisbe pods have a hybrid pod in there. There is a new tisbe culture that will switch over all our cultures that is a clean tisbe pod culture.

I won't list other vendors I've ordered from and checked their bottles and pod counts, I don't feel bashing a company publicly or calling out a company does anything to benefit the hobby. If you see that I order from your company there is another order coming to another person to double check the order.

This is more information than you're looking for about pod numbers. I am only a novice and continue to learn and invest into more equipment. I don't hide what our pod bottles look like or cater to our pod bottles that we display at a show. I will usually update pod bottles on a weekly on social media so you can see what you are getting. On my thread on R2R you can find the instagram insert link to our pod bottles.

Brine shrimp are always growing there are a few people that buy all the juvies to adults per week. We use Brineshrimpdirect E-Z shell to hatch all of our brine shrimp daily. If you'd like brineshrimp please reach out, they will be grown and harvested for you when you need them.

ReefLegends · Mar 7, 2024

Gretchacha said:
Website bonus:
I would like to try live grown out brine shrimp to stock in my tanks before traveling. They seem out of stock right now. I like the idea of the combo phyto and pod package, too. What I don’t see on your site is information on how many pods are in each bottle size (approximately how concentrated the bottle is) and I would love to but amphipods as well, so a suggestion there for expansion of products that would make buying live foods from you more appealing than from other vendors.

Here is the thread link for R2R that should get updated on a weekly basis. I need to be better about updating a few times a week.

Reef Legends phytoplankton sale thread

tbrown · Mar 7, 2024

ReefLegends said:
Thanks for the input, pod counts vary per week. If you go to our instagram you can see pod bottles that are packed for the week. I've ordered several sizes and pod counts from various vendors who put numbers on bottles and none of them are accurate. For any company that puts those numbers on the bottle and cannot provide the data on how they count per bottle, this can lead to a lawsuit. On the 16 ounce bottles there are "thousands of pods" which you can see in each bottle.

This was a topic at Reefstock, this is why I also bring a flashlight, each pod bottle is about even in pod numbers. While at Reefstock our Apocyclops pod bottles were bottled on Wednesday and by Sunday you could see all the Nauplii in each bottle. I had to explain that this is not how each bottle will look as only adults 120 micron size and above are harvested. I also showed off our Rotifer bottles and density, those are counted each week and are pretty reliable. If you are buying pods and cannot see x number in a bottle you are buying water. Also if your buying a mix bottle of pods with Apocyclops their metabolism is higher, if they go 4-6 days without food, when you add them to your system they are going to die before reproducing. I know this will cause some uproar with other companies, the same applies to any bottle with rotifers, if they aren't packed in phytoplankton, when you get them in 2-4 days, the die off will be high and the amount that survive will be minimal to none.

With this said, I have ordered from Reef Nutrition multiple times, they claim x number of rotifers per bag and they provide x amount over. I'll tell you that the million bag gives you more than a million and the 5 million will give you 6-6.5 million per bag. The 1 million bag is a better deal than the 5 million bag and I address those findings with Chad at Reefstock. Also out of all the Apocyclops test orders, Reef Nutrition had the highest success rate and the salinity in the bottles was at 30ppt and while that number my change slightly, Reef Nutrition provides true numbers on every product i've done a test on.

All of our pods/rotifers are bottled with live phytoplankton for a road trip snack all of our pods are grown in clean sterile instant ocean salt water. Each pod is grown between 33-35 ppt and adapt well to your reef aquarium. While salt is expensive, the pods you are buying are expensive, growing and bottling at the correct salinity shouldn't be big of an expense overall. Each pod strain has their own harvesting equipment and harvested at different times of the week to avoid contamination. Our Tisbe pods have a hybrid pod in there. There is a new tisbe culture that will switch over all our cultures that is a clean tisbe pod culture.

I won't list other vendors I've ordered from and checked their bottles and pod counts, I don't feel bashing a company publicly or calling out a company does anything to benefit the hobby. If you see that I order from your company there is another order coming to another person to double check the order.

This is more information than you're looking for about pod numbers. I am only a novice and continue to learn and invest into more equipment. I don't hide what our pod bottles look like or cater to our pod bottles that we display at a show. I will usually update pod bottles on a weekly on social media so you can see what you are getting. On my thread on R2R you can find the instagram insert link to our pod bottles.

Brine shrimp are always growing there are a few people that buy all the juvies to adults per week. We use Brineshrimpdirect E-Z shell to hatch all of our brine shrimp daily. If you'd like brineshrimp please reach out, they will be grown and harvested for you when you need them.

TLDR version: Not all vendors are truthful (whether on purpose or accidental), Reef Nutrition is.

Also, Apocyclops won't live long enough to reproduce in our systems without overnight shipping.

There's a lot more there. Great info @ReefLegends !

ReefLegends · Mar 7, 2024

tbrown said:
TLDR version: Not all vendors are truthful (whether on purpose or accidental), Reef Nutrition is.

Also, Apocyclops won't live long enough to reproduce in our systems without overnight shipping.

There's a lot more there. Great info @ReefLegends !

If you want a bottle of Apocyclops pods I’ll send you one and yes they will reproduce for you. An 8 ounce bottle is packed with 2-3 ounces of phytoplankton.

Apocyclops is the best reproducing pod when handled correctly.

ReefLegends · Mar 7, 2024

Pod bottle display for week of feb 13th.

Jakejtown · Mar 7, 2024

Official entry, liked on IG & FB

Trueflo · Mar 7, 2024

Daniel@R2R said:
Reef2Reef is super excited to team up with Reef Legends to bring some love to your reef in this awesome giveaway! Reef Legends offers an amazing assortment of corals, reef supplies and live foods for your reef, and in this giveaway SIX LUCKY WINNERS are going to receive a bundle of awesome live foods for their reef tanks! These bundles of 11 Species Phytoplankton, Rotifers, & 3-Pod blend of Tigrio, Tisbe, Apo pods come in huge 32-ounce bottles! Don't wait! Get your entries in now for this awesome giveaway!!

HOW TO ENTER

OFFICIAL ENTRY (Required): Subscribe to the Reef Legends email to stay up to date on new offers (at the bottom of the Reef Legends homepage) then make a post in this thread telling us that you've subscribed.

BONUS ENTRIES: Optional but highly encouraged to increase your chances of winning! Also, be sure to make ONE post in THIS thread for each entry. (Combined entries in a single post only counts as one entry.)

Like Reef Legends on Facebook.

Follow Reef Legends on Instagram.

Check out the Reef Legends website and let us know something you found that you'd like for your reef.

Share this contest on social media (each social media platform can be used for 1 bonus entry. So, that could be 1 entry for Facebook, 1 for Twitter, 1 for IG, etc. Make a separate post in this thread for each social media post you make.

Start/Update your tank thread on R2R and post a link in this thread. You can do this once a week for bonus entries. Our members tanks forums are found here.

BONUS ENTRY FOR R2R SUPPORTING & PARTNER MEMBERS: This is an entry option that is only available if you are a Reef2Reef Supporting or Partner Member. If you are a supporting/partner member please make a post in this thread stating that you are a R2R supporter/partner. If you're not a supporting member, but would like more info on how to sign up, CLICK HERE.

THE PRIZE

Each winner will receive the Phyto, Rotifer, 3 Pod bundle (a BIG 32 ounce bottle of each!!)

(Photo shows 16-ounce bottle of pod blend, but winner bundles will be upgraded to 32 ounces)

Grand prize winner will receive a 6-month subscription to the Phyto, Rotifer, 3 Pod bundle (receiving one bundle each month for 6 months)

5 runner-up winners will receive 1 Phyto, Rotifer, 3 Pod bundle

THE DRAWING

Entries will be accepted through March 10, 2024 and winners will be drawn on March 11, 2024. We will choose the winners via a random number generator. The winners will have their usernames tagged. We will not email or contact the winners other than tagging the winning names. Be sure to check back to claim your prize. If it is not claimed within 3 days we will do a re-pick and so on until the prize is claimed.

Thanks again to @ReefLegends for this amazing giveaway!!!

#r2rgiveaway

Official entry. Subscribed to email newsletter.

Trueflo · Mar 7, 2024

Daniel@R2R said:
Reef2Reef is super excited to team up with Reef Legends to bring some love to your reef in this awesome giveaway! Reef Legends offers an amazing assortment of corals, reef supplies and live foods for your reef, and in this giveaway SIX LUCKY WINNERS are going to receive a bundle of awesome live foods for their reef tanks! These bundles of 11 Species Phytoplankton, Rotifers, & 3-Pod blend of Tigrio, Tisbe, Apo pods come in huge 32-ounce bottles! Don't wait! Get your entries in now for this awesome giveaway!!

HOW TO ENTER

OFFICIAL ENTRY (Required): Subscribe to the Reef Legends email to stay up to date on new offers (at the bottom of the Reef Legends homepage) then make a post in this thread telling us that you've subscribed.

BONUS ENTRIES: Optional but highly encouraged to increase your chances of winning! Also, be sure to make ONE post in THIS thread for each entry. (Combined entries in a single post only counts as one entry.)

Like Reef Legends on Facebook.

Follow Reef Legends on Instagram.

Check out the Reef Legends website and let us know something you found that you'd like for your reef.

Share this contest on social media (each social media platform can be used for 1 bonus entry. So, that could be 1 entry for Facebook, 1 for Twitter, 1 for IG, etc. Make a separate post in this thread for each social media post you make.

Start/Update your tank thread on R2R and post a link in this thread. You can do this once a week for bonus entries. Our members tanks forums are found here.

BONUS ENTRY FOR R2R SUPPORTING & PARTNER MEMBERS: This is an entry option that is only available if you are a Reef2Reef Supporting or Partner Member. If you are a supporting/partner member please make a post in this thread stating that you are a R2R supporter/partner. If you're not a supporting member, but would like more info on how to sign up, CLICK HERE.

THE PRIZE

Each winner will receive the Phyto, Rotifer, 3 Pod bundle (a BIG 32 ounce bottle of each!!)

(Photo shows 16-ounce bottle of pod blend, but winner bundles will be upgraded to 32 ounces)

Grand prize winner will receive a 6-month subscription to the Phyto, Rotifer, 3 Pod bundle (receiving one bundle each month for 6 months)

5 runner-up winners will receive 1 Phyto, Rotifer, 3 Pod bundle

THE DRAWING

Entries will be accepted through March 10, 2024 and winners will be drawn on March 11, 2024. We will choose the winners via a random number generator. The winners will have their usernames tagged. We will not email or contact the winners other than tagging the winning names. Be sure to check back to claim your prize. If it is not claimed within 3 days we will do a re-pick and so on until the prize is claimed.

Thanks again to @ReefLegends for this amazing giveaway!!!

#r2rgiveaway

Official entry number two. Liked their Facebook page
official entry number three. That king Kong Yuma on their website is something that I would want in my tank.
Official entry number 4, I am a supporting member

tbrown · Mar 7, 2024

ReefLegends said:
If you want a bottle of Apocyclops pods I’ll send you one and yes they will reproduce for you. An 8 ounce bottle is packed with 2-3 ounces of phytoplankton.

Apocyclops is the best reproducing pod when handled correctly.

Ohhh... I missed that part. Apocyclops won't do well enough to reproduce in our systems unless they're fed well DURING transit, right?