Well I've upgraded from my planted 2.5g to a 5g over the weekend and poured everything into the new tank that I could. Everything from the nematodes, mini ramshorn-like snails, MTS, RCS, plants, sand (and any detritus), and my existing cyclops/copepod population was transferred over with no die-off whatsoever. I've got a 9 inch or so tall semi porous lava rock in the tank with a riccia ball attached to it that also switched over. I ordered some b. brigittae and dario dario that should come today at 3pm and tomorrow around the same time probably, and I bet they'd knock out some of my live food cultures I have going.
My question is this: What steps could I take to ensure hiding places/breeding grounds for the copepods to keep their numbers up with the micropredators in the tank? Anyone ever kept a live food culture existing with the fish that eat them at the same time? (Btw: I will be feeding frozen bbs and crushed flake as a main staple for those that eat it)
If it helps, here's my list of plants:
-3-4x anacharis strands
-1x anubias nana
-5+ java ferns (all sizes)
-10+ dwarf baby tears
-6 ludwigia stems
-5-6x hornwort bunches
-riccia ball (pool ball sized)
-1x banana plant
(going to add duckweed and maintain the amount also)
My question is this: What steps could I take to ensure hiding places/breeding grounds for the copepods to keep their numbers up with the micropredators in the tank? Anyone ever kept a live food culture existing with the fish that eat them at the same time? (Btw: I will be feeding frozen bbs and crushed flake as a main staple for those that eat it)
If it helps, here's my list of plants:
-3-4x anacharis strands
-1x anubias nana
-5+ java ferns (all sizes)
-10+ dwarf baby tears
-6 ludwigia stems
-5-6x hornwort bunches
-riccia ball (pool ball sized)
-1x banana plant
(going to add duckweed and maintain the amount also)
