Description
Marine Tisbe Copepods (Harpacticoid)
These creatures are bethnic in other words they are (crawlers). They are excellent for seeding a new tank, and adding to a refugium.
These are very effective for seeding a reef tank prior to purchasing a Mandarin-fish or Dragonet. A bottle or bag will contain many 1000’s of copepods. Harpacticoida marine copepods are small in size approx. 100um – 300um.
If you are living in Tasmania and want to purchase Marine Copepods, Rotifers, Amphipods and Daphnia you will need to complete a Tasmanian Government interstate wildlife import permit.
Description
- Distinctive body shape
- Exoskeleton moderately chitinised
Ecology
- Widely distributed marine planktonic copepod
- Biology is poorly known
- Can be one of the numerically dominant species in coastal waters
- In oligotrophic waters, this species is known to associate with marine snow aggregates, where attached microbial communities provide a nutrition source
Distribution
- Epipelagic-bathypelagic
- Cosmopolitan, oceanic and coastal
- Found in tropical and subtropical regions of Australia
- World distribution: widespread in all oceans
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Nicolas (verified owner) –
A lot of water not many copepods
Graeme Potter (store manager) –
Hello Nicolas, it is obvious from your comment that you have never received Tisbe copepods. If you had you would know there were several thousand in the bottle. I have the video of what was sent. You are obviously unaware that there are 6 instar periods and 3 sub-adult sizes before the copepods get to adult size and then only the larger adult female pods are easily visible. Your tank will no dought have benefited from the influx of copepods of various sizes.
Richard Harris (verified owner) –
My mandarin really loves them.