Aquatic Live Food Marine Tisbe Harpacticoid Copepod - Live Food - Instore Pick Up Only

Marine Tisbe Harpacticoid Copepod is benthic, in other words, they are crawlers. They are excellent for seeding a new tank and adding to a refugium. These copepods 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.

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