Too many copepods? Is it possible?

[Spiffy]

I have seen an explosion of life in the DT since I changed my lighting, everything for green algae (which is now stabilizing), to pink coralline. And now I am seeing lots of little white dots zipping around on the glass, even when that lights are on during the day.

I know copepods are good, but is there a such thing as too many?

[Mhay]

There's no such thing as too many.
A lot of livestock eat them and the population with stabilize at a healthy number to help sustain the tank.

[Donkeykong]

+1^^^
They will find their own balance.

[footballdude2k3]

This is why so many people say to let your tank mature before getting things like a mandarin, as long as everything is healthy in your tank, you should have a ton of pods.

[leveldrummer]

Pod populations will grow and fall according to available food sources until they eventually reach a balance. If you consistently have huge numbers of pods, its a good possibilty your either feeding too much or not removing detritus enough (low flow).

[Spiffy]

I do have an issue with detritus, but I plan on changing that when I upgrade to VorTech MP10's. I have started using flakes in addition to the brine shrimp that I feed to my fish. My LFS warned of phosphate spikes with the flakes, so I use them sparingly. But I have noticed more detritus since I have been using the flakes.

[Portsie]

You should do some research on brine shrimp. I remember reading somewhere that they provide very little, if any, nutrition for your fish, unless you are gut loading them or harvesting them yourself and including the egg sac.

[Donkeykong]

Portsie is right, unless you are gut loading the brine shrimp they are basically like candy to fish. They are a good food to get picky eaters started on, but arent a good long term staple of the fishes diet

[Spiffy]

Brine Shrimp was another thing I was worried about. I have been wanting to add a lot of diversity to their diets. What do you guys recommend?

[Crimson]

I feed nls pellets, mysis, brine, cyclops, nls marine flake (midas blenny loves it), sometimes rods frozen.

The brine, mysis are soaked in selcon.