PodDrop

10/23/2026

10/23/2026

A TREAT FOR YOUR REEF

Halloween starts early at PodDrop.

Bring more life to your reef with our live copepods and phytoplankton. Explore single-species cultures and signature blends, and make your next reef-care restock a little more rewarding.

Enjoy 20% off your total order.
Use code HALLOWEEN20 at checkout. www.getpoddrop.com

Valid through October 31, 2026.

10/15/2026

We’re proud to welcome Home Grown Coral in Sarasota, Florida, as our Southeast distributor.

This partnership brings PodDrop’s live copepods and phytoplankton closer to the region’s reef community, connecting our cultures with more independent aquarium stores and the reef keepers they serve.

For Southeast retailers interested in adding PodDrop to their shelves, contact Home Grown Coral or message us directly to explore wholesale opportunities.

Welcome to the PodDrop family, Home Grown Coral. 🤝

10/14/2026

Your reef is more than fish. 🪸

Bring live-food variety to your aquarium with PodDrop’s live copepods and phytoplankton.

Cultured in-house. Bottled by PodDrop. Choose the cultures that fit your livestock and make live feeding part of your reef routine.

👉 Shop live copepods and phytoplankton today at www.getpoddrop.com

10/14/2026

Your mandarin was made to hunt. 🐠

Put live prey on the menu with PodDrop’s Tigriopus californicus copepods. Bring movement and variety to your pod-hunting fish’s feeding routine.

Cultured in-house. Bottled by PodDrop. Ready for your reef.

👉 Shop live Tigriopus today @ Getpoddrop.com
🚚 Free shipping on orders $75+.

10/11/2026

🔬 **NEW PHYTOPLANKTON AT PODDROP: PAVLOVA LUTHERI **

Not all phytoplankton provide the same nutrition. Meet Pavlova lutheri (accepted scientific name: Diacronema lutheri), a marine haptophyte used in live-feed aquaculture.

🧬 MICROBIOLOGY

At approximately 4–6 µm, each cell contains photosynthetic pigments, moves with two unequal flagella, and bears a short haptonema—an appendage characteristic of haptophytes. Its small size makes it accessible to many planktonic grazers and suspension feeders.

🧪 WHY EPA + DHA MATTER

Pavlova synthesizes two important long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids:

• EPA (20:5n−3): Involved in membrane structure and lipid-mediated signaling.

• DHA (22:6n−3): A major structural fatty acid, especially important in developing neural and visual tissues of larval fish.

These compounds move from phytoplankton to zooplankton and onward through marine food webs.

🦐 AQUACULTURE APPLICATIONS

Pavlova is used in diets for copepods, rotifers, and bivalve larvae. When zooplankton consume these cells, algal nutrients can be transferred to fish and invertebrate larvae that feed on them.

🦪 WHY MIXED PHYTOPLANKTON DIETS MATTER

Different microalgae provide different cell sizes, sterols, and fatty-acid profiles. Hatchery protocols frequently combine Pavlova with diatoms such as Chaetoceros rather than relying exclusively on one algal species.

⚗️ THE SCIENCE BEHIND CULTURE QUALITY

The EPA:DHA profile is not fixed. Temperature, light intensity, nutrient availability, and growth phase can influence lipid production.

A darker, denser culture is not automatically more nutritious. Cell concentration and biochemical composition are two different measurements.

🌊 WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR REEF AQUARIUMS?

Live phytoplankton can provide nutrition to compatible filter feeders and planktonic grazers, indirectly supporting the marine food web. Actual consumption depends on the organisms present, their feeding preferences, and particle size.

10/11/2026

🪸 Real Symbionts. Real Results.

Give your reef a boost with PodDrop Live Tigriopus californicus Copepods — now available at Ocean Aquatics!

These nutrient-rich live copepods are a great natural food source for mandarins, seahorses, wrasses, and other pod-loving fish, while also helping support the food web inside your reef. They can even provide supplemental nutrition for corals and other filter-feeding inhabitants.

✅ Laboratory cultured
✅ 100% live copepods
✅ Easy flip-top 6oz bottle
✅ Great for building pod populations
✅ Reef-ready & easy to feed

Stop by and grab a bottle for your reef while they’re in stock!

📍 Ocean Aquatics – Redlands, CA
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