Stop feeding your tank and start feeding your ecosystem. This powerful combo delivers everything you need to establish a thriving, self-replenishing food web in your saltwater aquarium. With a massive 48oz dose of live copepods and a 16oz bottle of live phytoplankton, you're not just adding food—you're creating a living, breathing micro-environment that sustains itself.
Phytoplankton feeds the pods, the pods feed your fish and corals, and the waste feeds your clean-up crew. It's nature's perfect cycle, now available in one convenient bundle.
What's Inside?
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48oz Live Copepod Blend: These active crustaceans populate every zone of your aquarium—from the water column to the rockwork and sand bed—providing a continuous, natural live food source.
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16oz Live Phytoplankton: A concentrated blend of nutrient-rich microalgae, packed with essential HUFAs, omega-3s, and natural pigments. This is the perfect live feed for your copepods, as well as a direct food source for filter-feeding corals, clams, and feather dusters.
Why Choose This Combo?
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Complete Nutritional Cycle: Phytoplankton feeds and fattens your copepod population, making them even more nutritious for your fish. In turn, copepods provide the ultimate live prey for mandarins, seahorses, pipefish, wrasses, and scooter blennies. You get a two-tiered feeding system that covers everything from the tiniest coral polyp to the hungriest fish.
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Unmatched Coral Health: While fish feast on pods, your corals directly consume the phytoplankton. SPS, LPS, soft corals, and gorgonians will all benefit from the bioavailable nutrients, resulting in brighter colors, faster growth, and fuller polyp extension.
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Natural Water Quality Management: Phytoplankton consumes nitrates and phosphates, improving water clarity. Copepods then consume detritus, uneaten food, and microalgae, acting as a living clean-up crew. Together, they work synergistically to maintain pristine water parameters.
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Seed & Sustain: Pour the copepods into your display or refugium and dose the phytoplankton regularly. The phytoplankton keeps your pod colony well-fed and breeding, ensuring you have a long-term, self-sustaining food source rather than a one-time feeding.
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Exceptional Value for Medium to Large Systems: This 48oz + 16oz combo is perfectly sized for aquariums between 75 and 200 gallons, or for reefers who want to give multiple tanks a massive biodiversity boost. Buying together saves you money compared to purchasing separately.
How to Use
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Acclimation: Upon arrival, float both containers in your sump or display tank for 10–15 minutes to match the temperature.
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Dosing the Combo: For best results, add the phytoplankton to your tank first (dose directly into the water column or refugium). Wait 30–60 minutes to allow the microalgae to disperse. Then, pour the copepods into your display tank or refugium. This gives the pods an immediate food source as they settle in.
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Ongoing Schedule: After the initial setup, continue dosing phytoplankton every 2–3 days to maintain a robust pod population, especially in tanks with heavy predators. Refrigerate both products after opening and shake the phytoplankton well before each use.
Give your reef the complete living food web it deserves. Order the 48oz Copepod + 16oz Phytoplankton Combo today and watch your entire tank thrive from the bottom up!