Bulldawg Reef

01/12/2025

Cyber Monday deals are live at BulldawgReef.com! Free 8oz present on all qualifying orders. Arrive alive guarantee on all orders, even if UPS messes up we have you covered!

01/12/2025

🔔🔔 Cyber Monday Deals are here! Save 40% on copepod mixes and phytoplankton through midnight (eastern) on the 7th! Free 8oz present for all orders over 30!

Bulldawg Reef LLC

28/11/2025

Ending tonight!

27/11/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! We are so thankful for each and every customer, every kind word you all put out there to help us grow, and most importantly the trust you put in us to help care for your tanks!

Don’t miss out on 30% off! Ends tomorrow night at midnight eastern. Qualifying orders will get a free present in their box!

21/11/2025

🚨 Black Friday Deals are here!!

🎉 Save 30% on copepod mixes and phytoplankton through 11/28/25 at midnight (eastern)!

‼️ Free 8oz sample present over 40, excludes shipping and tax.

04/11/2025

🎉🎊 Anniversary Deals are here!! We are so thankful for the support from all of our customers and stores. It’s been 2 years since we started the journey down the plankton path. To celebrate please enjoy the following deals below.

🥳 40% off pod mixes and phytoplankton through 11/9. Free 8oz surprise with every purchase over 30!

26/10/2025

🎃🕷️TRICK OR TREAT FROM BULLDAWG REEF

👻30% OFF, plus a FREE 8oz TREAT when you spend $40! It could be any of our blends, including RHODO! Or, a bonus pod mix! No creepy crawlers here, just the densist zooplankton you can treat your tank with🐠🌊

15/10/2025

Looking for ways to save on pods and phyto? We always have 3 ways to save everyday!

08/10/2025

We love to spot check across orders to ensure all bottles are packed full of pods of all 3 species! This is a sneak peak at Monday’s density spot check.

We are often asked why add pods? They are a great micro clean up crew member to add to your current clean up crew team. They are also helpful to get some finicky eaters such as seahorses, pipefish, dragonets, etc. to eat due to their erratic jerking swimming motions. They eat micro algae, phytoplankton, uneaten food and detritus. Once they eat the phytoplankton all of the various benefits of the strain are passed to it. Once it is consumed by coral or fish, again the benefits pass on! Good source of protein for fish and depending on what phytoplankton mix you feed them they can be gut loaded with a number of other things such as vitamins, omega 3s, amino acids, and even pigments.

Each species also serves a different purpose in terms of clean up crew. Tisbe b. are small and can get into the smallest spaces, they graze primarily on rocks, substrate and glass. Tigriopus c. are large and primarily feed in the water column making them also a great food source for finicky eaters like seahorses, mandarins and pipefish. Apocalypse p. are small to large and feed both on the water column and graze on rocks, glass and substrate. Having all 3 species colonizing in your reef system will cover all your bases in terms of nutrition for fish and clean up crew needs!

As with any pod species, they should be added to the refugium to be able to establish a population without predators so that they can continuously feed the reef above! We recommend using a pod hotel in the refugium to help move the pods to the display weekly to replish the colony that’s feeding the fish and corals above. Here is our dosing guide for pods:

Once you receive a bottle of pods open the top and let them get some oxygen. Pods are meant to be dosed all at once and never to be put in the refrigerator. Before you dose the pods into your tank turn off the lights and turn off the flow. Leave these off for 20-30 minutes, you can also dose at lights out time instead of turning off lights for a period of time.

We recommend creating 2 colonies by splitting your bottle between your sump and display. Put 1/3 of the bottle in the sump and the rest in the display. If you have a pod hotel place it in the sump and weekly pull it out and shake it into the display. This will help replenish the pod colony in the display!

These are 100% aquacultured here in house at Bulldawg Reef. We recommend feeding pods any one of our Bulldawg Reef Juice blends based on what benefits you are hoping to give to your reef!

05/10/2025

Our 3 pod mix is slammed full with active healthy pods!

05/10/2025

Rhodo back in stock this week! Rhodo is rich in probiotics, bioactive vitamins, amino acids and lipids. Contains the pigment Phycoerythrin which helps enhance the color of fish and corals! Consumes nitrates and phosphates during photosynthesis. Great food for corals, clams, pod, brine, and other zooplankton and filter feeding species!

03/10/2025

Only a couple days left to save big!