Ultimate EcoPack

Name: Ultimate EcoPack
SKU: ULT-ECOPACK-1
Price: 100.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Ultimate EcoPack

The Ultimate EcoPack presents a convenient and cost-effective way to give your hungry reef aquarium animals the nourishment they need to live long and look great. A complete nutrient cycling system, this package completes the base of your captive ecosystem’s food pyramid.

$100

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Ultimate EcoPack: Comprehensive Reef Nutrition

Coral reefs are among the most complex ecosystems on Earth. As such, recreating them in the home aquarium--especially their elaborate food webs--can be extraordinarily difficult. With the Ultimate EcoPack, providing high-quality live and prepared feed has never been simpler and more economical. More than just a food, the live phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in this unique kit actually promote nutrient cycling and water purification; to boot, the copepods mop up detritus and film algae. Provides a balanced nutritional profile and wide range of food particle sizes! See below for more information.

EcoPods:

EcoPods contains a mix of four select copepods. Each is chosen for its size, behavior and nutritional profile. The cohort featured in this product is far better as a food or as cleaners than any one of its members by itself. Since individuals of all life stages (i.e. all sizes) are included, it may be exploited by all zooplanktivores, right out of the jar!

Tigriopus californicus. This is the largest species in the mix. This harpacticoid is an excellent cleaner and is rich in color-enhancing carotenoid pigments (when included in its diet: See below)!
Tisbe biminiensis. Also a harpacticoid, but much smaller, it cleans the tiniest cracks and crevasses of live rock and macroalgae.
Apocyclops panamensis. Larger than Tisbe and smaller than Tigriopus, this cyclopoid rounds out your tank's zooplankton size range. Though it spends some of its time vulnerable to zooplanktivores in the open waters, it is roughly twice as productive as Tisbe and Tigriopus, laying eggs every 4-6 days, and so recovers from heavy predation.
Oithona colcarva. Like Apocyclops, this super-tough pod is a cyclopoid; though it spends even more time swimming in the water column, its nocturnal nature helps to protect it from predation. This species prefers miniscule food particles, and so is useful for turning over bacterial biomass (e.g. after carbon dosing).

OceanMagik:

OceanMagik is a special blend of four live phytoplankton species. It is formulated to provide your corals, pods and filter-feeders with the right balance of fatty acids, proteins, vitamins and amino acids. All phyto species in the Ultimate EcoPack improve water quality by competing with nuisance algae for nutrients.

Nannochloropsis gaditana. This is a very tiny, fast-growing algae that rapidly consumes nutrients such as nitrate and phosphate. Brown, non-flagellated, 1-5 microns.
Tetraselmis sp. Rich in amino acids, this species is especially wholesome. Green biflagellate, 6-10 microns.
Isochrysis galbana. This species boasts of a high DHA content and it excellent for enriching zooplankton such as copepods and brine shrimp. It is also widely accepted by oysters, clams, mussels and scallops. Brown biflagellate, 10-14 microns.
Thalassiosira weissflogii. The largest species of phytoplankton in the Ultimate EcoPack (and capable of forming chains), it provides a coarser particle size that is ideal phytoplanktivores such as corals and Christmas tree worms. This planktonic diatom consumes silicates and so competes with harmful benthic diatoms. Unflagellated diatom, 5-32 microns.

PNS Product Combo:

This critical component of the Ultimate EcoPack completes the package both nutritionally and ecologically. Each product, PNS ProBio and PNS YelloSno, contains the photosynthetic purple non-sulfur bacterium (PNSB) Rhodopseudomonas palustris. The first product is live (an inoculant) whereas the second, which simulates marine snow (a coral and invert food), is flash pasteurized to lock in nutrition and extend shelf life. Even as these bacterioplankton inhabit the water column and are responsive to carbon dosing, they colonize anaerobic areas (subsurfaces of rock and sand). Found naturally on the coral reef, and even within corals as a symbiont, the proven benefits of PNSB are mindbogglingly wide-ranging:

Consumes excess ammonia and nitrite. Because this is an assimilatory process, no nitrate is generated!
Consumes excess nitrate and phosphate. Carries out denitrification much more quickly than obligate anaerobes (e.g. Aeromonas).
Fixes nitrogen. This diazotroph is known to nourish zooxanthellae to promote coral growth.
Consumes dissolved and particulate organics, including lignocellulose-based detritus (e.g. macroalgal litter).
A powerful probiotic. Promotes digestion/feed conversion and synthesizes antibiotics such as Vibrio-killing streptomycin.
Synthesizes extremely desirable carotenoids such as astaxanthin, which act as antioxidants and enhance animal coloration as they are passed up the food chain!
On marine snow, it is deliverable to diverse organisms via wide-ranging particle sizes (<1 micron to >1 mm).

A Refugium of sorts, this algae bed helps clean the oceans!

Building Your Refugium Clean-Up Crew

No one ever said that keeping reef aquaria is totally uncomplicated. Especially keeping them clean! Sure, some maintenance approaches are simpler than others; natural methods are, for example, fairly effortless means to control nuisance algae, detritus and pests. Natural methods certainly require some research, planning and occasional monitoring; but for the most part, they involve …

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A Closer Look at Aquarium Substrates

We aquarists don’t talk much about sand. Quite frankly, it’s just not all that exciting–on the surface, anyway. But we don’t have to dig very deep to find that aquarium sand (or rather the stuff that lives within it) is not only quite interesting, but it also carries considerable importance for the health of our …

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Comparing the Metabolic Modes of Aquarium Organisms

in Few, if any, of us get “into” aquarium keeping to become marine ecologists, or become experts in metabolic processes. But it does happen, albeit over some time. We buy our first fish tank with the sole intention of keeping colorful animals–simple as that. We do soon learn, however, that an aquarium system is really …

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We take the worry out of buying Live Copepods, Phytoplankton, Inverts, and Captive Bred Fish online by going above and beyond to take care of our customers. That’s why we guarantee every order we ship will be 100% Alive On Arrival or we will replace it free of charge. Booya. We’ll even cover the shipping on the replacement no matter which service you choose. Double Booya.

About our policy: When your order arrives, be sure and inspect the contents to ensure everything is looking alive and well before you add them to your tank or put them in the fridge. We’ll give you 12 hours after delivery to make sure you are completely satisfied.

“We will take care of you and make it right”

If for any reason you decide something isn’t quite ultra grade, simply snap a photo of the unopened item(s) you would like replaced. Be sure to get the expiration date on the back label in the photo. After that, visit www.algaebarn.com/claims and submit the form. We’ll review the photo and have a replacement out to you faster than a six-line wrasse at feeding time.

Captive Bred Fish: We guarantee every Live Fish we ship to be 100% Alive On Arrival and we also offer a 7-day health guarantee on all Live Captive Bred Fish. In the event that your fish arrives DOA (Dead On Arrival), simply take a photo of the fish in the unopened bag/jar within 2 hours after delivery and visit www.algaebarn.com/claims to submit the form. If the fish is DOA, we will offer you a choice of either a full refund or a free replacement, including the shipping cost. If the fish expires from natural causes (this does not include being killed by tank mates, jumping out of the aquarium, being acclimated to the wrong environment, not being fed the recommended foods) within 7 days after delivery, just provide a picture of the expired fish and we will offer you a free replacement, however, you must pay for shipping, or a refund, less the shipping cost. We can offer this industry leading guarantee on all of our live fish because Captive Bred fish are generally healthier and hardier than their wild-caught counterparts!

Invertebrates: We guarantee every invertebrate (Invert) we ship to be 100% Alive On Arrival. In the event that your inverts arrive DOA, simply take photos of the DOA items within 2 hours of delivery and visit www.algaebarn.com/claims to submit the form. We will review the photos and issue store credit for any DOA Inverts!

Once your replacement order is processed, we’ll send you a brand new tracking number automatically. Thats it, pretty simple right?

So start giving your tank the love it deserves and order with confidence knowing that AlgaeBarn has your back.

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