Live Seeder Kit (8oz Copepods / 8oz Rotifers / Phytoplankton / Coralline Algae)

Phytoplankton are small single cell organisms that are essential to the growth and sustainment of corals, copepods, and several other species of marine life. If you are looking for high quality Phytoplankton for your copepods, or if you want to culture your own Phytoplankton, you're in the right place!

Live Copepods are a fantastic way of adding biodiversity to your reef aquarium. They serve as members of your cleanup crew, eating detritus and improving water quality. In addition, their small size makes them excellent at getting into the tiniest crevices in your live rock and eating waste inaccessible to snails or crabs.

Pods are also the only food some picky fish will eat; examples include mandarins, pipefish, and some wrasses. These fish generally won't eat anything but live food, and copepods are their preferred menu item! Your corals also love to eat copepods, which helps them gain the nutrients they need to grow and maintain optimum health.

Tisbe are the smallest of the three types of copepods we stock. Tisbe pods are nocturnal, which helps protect them from predation (allowing them to build a robust, self-sustaining colony in your tank). Adults of this species prefer to live in your live rock and on your glass, eating detritus all night. Mandarins, in particular, love to eat Tisbe pods. Live copepods are a great natural reef aquarium food for your fish and corals.

Tigriopus are the largest type of copepod we offer. This live copepod species is a pelagic, or free-swimming, copepod. The large size and peculiar swimming motion of the Tigriopus make it easy to catch and are perfect for feeding your coral and fish.  

Rotifers an essential element of the food chain and critical to Marine Life in your tank and great for feeding larval fish and coral.

Once your tank is seeded with Rotifers, daily dosing of Live Phytoplankton will ensure the extended life and reproduction of the your rotifers, so definitely check out our Live Phytoplankton to add to your order!

Rotifers reproduce quickly and are naturally found in diverse habitats where they have adapted to tolerate wide ranges in temperature, oxygen, and salinity, making them robust in culture.

These can be refrigerated for several weeks before using to start a culture or as a live feed.

Coralline algae are rock-hard calcareous red algae that fulfill two key functional roles in coral reef ecosystems: they contribute significantly to reef calcification and cementation, and they induce larval settlement of many benthic organisms.