5280 Pods :: Live Copepods :: Three Pod Species Tisbe + Tigriopus + Apocyclops :: Clean Your Tank & Mandarin & Finicky Fish Food (5,280+ Pods)

I bought these directly from Algae Barn and via Amazon in the past with no issues. However, due to the extreme heat and humidity here in The South in late July, one cold pack wasn’t enough. The cold pack was hot and the copepods were DOA. I decided to just take the loss, but a few days later I messaged Algae Barn on Facebook Messenger just to let them know they may want to include more cold packs when shipping to the South in the summer. Don’t get me wrong, their jars are always VERY WELL PACKED, they just need an extra cold pack or 2. The next morning, Algae Barn messaged me that they appreciated the feedback and wish I would have let them know ASAP. Even though I didn’t request a replacement, they sent a free replacement that day. They apologized and even gave me 15% off my next order. You can’t beat that! I got the package today. The pods were a perfect temp- with 2 cold packs. The closest to the jar was warm but half the second pack was still icy. I messaged them to let them know everything was perfect and received a quick response. Great job, Algae Barn! I had resigned myself to getting my pods from an LFS during the hot months, but not anymore. I’m am Algae Barn customer for life

Shipped across the country in just a few days....very cold temperatures here and it was very well packaged....well done algaebarn 👍👍👍

We ordered these for our saltwater aquarium. They arrived quickly, well packaged, and all alive. Will definately order from this company again

The pods work good packing. They still going been a couple of months.

When I first received I was very unsure as they all seemed dead I added to my tank and realized about a month later they had reproduced exponentially and I now have so many in my sand bed very pleased would recommend the buy totally worth the money I also received them about 4 days earlier than expected

Set up a new tank with dry rock and dry sand so I had no life what so ever in the tank. Figured this was the best way to add some little critters to get the ecosystem going. After reading mixed reviews I was a bit skeptical and upon first inspection when the box arrived it didn’t appear to have much life until I looked very closely. These guys were tiny. After a month it was clearly evident that this stuff did the trick. I had little bugs everywhere, it looked like I had a very established tank so overall I was very pleased

5280+ PODS What a joke. I've got more healthy pods from getting a ball of macro algae at the LFS, seen BRS bragging about how great algae barn pods are so figured eh! little pricey but if they populate in 2wks as they state and there are that many I would be overwelmed. I use to enjoy my old tank I could sit and watch my refugium with all the little pods crawling and swimming about. It's been 2wks and haven't seen the slightest hint of a pod in sight, claims to have mix of adult and juveniles in the jar, Right that's why they were so small you had to put your eye to the jar or use a magnifying glass to see the few that were in there. I get more brine shrimp in 1 scoop than with a jar of water than this has in pods. Only useful thing from this order was knowledge of never again and a plastic container to prepare my live brine shrimp and frozen foods in.

Great to start with adults quickly crawling on rocks and then BAM! Less than 3 weeks after adding to my tank I woke up to lights on and a few thousand white-ish flecks on the glass crawling and swimming around. Juveniles/babies are now out in force!