This was all driven by Melevs thread on breeding phyto
The History
Pods
We started breeding in our bio 29 gal that we installed a sump and fuge on (about 50gal of water). Every month we added 1 to 2 bottles of pods that we bought from "somewhere". We found that as long as we added phyto, the fuge was always alive.
When we upgraded to the 120gal with 300gal of water, we broken off some of the pods and seeded the system for about 4 months allowing