Pod transfer

Alright so I have a 100g tank with about 100lbs of fine sand in it. I shut it down about 4 months ago it is half full of water and I looked in it today and there are pods everywhere in it still and some are huge. I have a 240 with 2 mandarins so I would like to try to figure out a way to get as many pods out with out using the sand because it was a high nutrient system. (it was my first tank with fish only and I didnt know about gfo and I was way over feeding) Any suggestions on if and how I could do this without transfering phos and nitrates.

 

NET THEM!!! lol, I use a net to catch mine, we used to sell them, and the fine mesh nets at petco, also called brine shrimp nets, will catch all of the pods, including the smaller ones, like tigger pods, and even the micropods.

 

wont the net pick up the sand too

 

I thought they were in the water, too?

 

Copepods are at least, amphipods, you can put a ball of chaeto or filter floss in their, and the pods will live in their, then you can rinse them off in your dt.

 

They are in the sand and on the glass..those would be copepods right

 

Nope. Amphipods actually ;D

 

Could very well be harpacticoid copepods... with out seeing em, the description alone he gave is not enough to make any ID.

Harpacts tend to craw around, and swim in the water column.

 

put some filter floss or similar in there with a bit of fish food in it, let it set for a bit and pull it, should be loaded,

plus what anenome said