Prepaid One Year Subscription - Reef Snacklepack

This product listing is for prepaid subscriptions only. For one-time purchases or regular pay-as-you-go subscriptions, click here. How Does It Work? You'll select the size of Reef Snacklpack that you'd like to receive every month, then proceed to checkout and complete payment. This will immediately generate your first monthly order. For the next five months, a new order will be generated each month and shipped automatically - with no extra charge and free shipping! What is the Reef Snacklepack? This combo pack contains the two foundations of a healthy reef biome: live copepods and live phytoplankton. You'll get both our Reef Snacklebox Three Species Blend of Copepods and our Six Species Live Phytoplankton Blend. Reef Snacklebox The Reef Snacklebox is a dense blend of three species of live copepods to feed your fish and corals while also providing balance and stability to your reef. The live copepods included in each Reef Snacklebox - Tisbe, Apocyclops, and Tigriopus - eat nuisance algae and detritus. In certain cases, they are even known to consume other harmful microfauna (Tisbe copepods can eat certain strains of harmful dinoflagelletes). Live copepods are incredibly small but pack a significant punch. The Reef Snacklebox, when combined with our live phytoplankton, creates the basis for your reef's food chain. Your reef requires a strong foundation of live copepods and other microfauna in order to be stable, healthy, and vibrant over the long term. Biodiversity is key to successful reefing, and the Reef Snacklebox is a crucial component. As tiny as they are, live copepods are also powerful members of your clean-up crew. Their small size enables them to reach the tiny crevices in your rock that snails and urchins can't get to. They eat leftover fish food, detritus, and algae that settle in those spaces, which in turn contributes to lower nutrients in your reef tank. Live copepods such as the ones found in our Reef Snacklebox are also necessary to keep certain types of fish such as mandarin gobies, dragonettes, and pipefish. Live Phytoplankton Live phytoplankton is the basic building block of the ocean food chain. It adds biodiversity to your tank and feeds corals, clams, copepods and other filter feeders. The copepods and other microfauna which feed on our live phytoplankton will in turn become food for your fish and corals. Live phytoplankton, and the microfauna it supports, contribute greatly to the health and stability of your reef. Our live phytoplankton blend contains six different strains of phyto to provide balanced and well rounded nutrition for your tank’s inhabitants. Corals are like all other animals - they need a wide variety of minerals, vitamins, and fatty acids for optimal health. Simply feeding one or two species of phytoplankton won’t provide the diversity of nutrients that our six species blend offers. We recommend checking out our dosing guide to determine how much and frequently to dose for your unique needs. Our phytoplankton should be stored in the refrigerator and given a gentle shake every couple days. If stored like this, it should last at least two months. Buy With Confidence Shopping for live goods online can be stressful, but we use best-in-industry shipping practices such as biodegradable styrofoam boxes, checking your weather and including heat/ice packs as needed, and sending all orders with UPS two day shipping. If anything goes wrong, we have your back with our completely hassle-free, no-questions-asked Dinkins Delivery Guarantee. Don't take our word for it - check out our reviews section to see what other reefers are saying!