Why Salinity Matters: A Practical Guide to Shellfish-Safe Water In the world of shellfish holding systems, water quality isn’t just important—it’s everything. And when it comes to water quality, salinity is one of the key factors that determines the health and survival of your lobsters, crabs, or langoustines. Whether you’re using natural seawater or creating…
How to Carry Out a Water Change on Your Lobster Tank Maintaining optimal water quality is essential for the health and vitality of your lobsters. One of the key maintenance tasks in operating a Lobster Pod system or any lobster tank is performing regular water changes. Once your system is fully matured, we recommend a…
Shellfish Capacity in a Lobster Tank When it comes to storing live shellfish, particularly lobster and crab, capacity isn’t just a matter of volume—it’s about ensuring optimal conditions for animal health, water quality, and operational efficiency. At the core of our system design philosophy is a deep understanding of stocking density, tank surface area, and…
Setting Up Your Todd Fish Tech Lobster Pod: An Expert Step-by-Step Guide When your Lobster Pod arrives, it marks the beginning of an exciting venture into sustainable fisheries. Each system is thoughtfully packed to ensure it arrives in perfect condition. Now, as you prepare to set up your Lobster Pod, here’s a professional guide to…
Although we often refer to our shellfish systems as Lobster Tanks they are are also excellent at storing crabs and langoustine. Crab have slightly different requirements to lobster. They can make the seawater in the tank very mucky so we tend to have a larger mechanical filter. Â They produce more physical waste so we ensure…
Chloramine is a mixture of chlorine and ammonia and is being used more often in the UK to disinfect tap water. We are aware of customers in London, Birmingham and St Abbs in the Scottish Borders where the local water authority add chloramines to the water for disinfection and we are sure there are other…
We have several shellfish holding systems and supply them either with our triple filter or an integrated filter but many of our customers already have tanks and just need a filter. If you are looking to add filtration to your lobster tank make sure it has all of the following: Mechanical Filter – this is…
For your shellfish holding system to operate successfully it needs to have a mature filter. When you buy a new system (or when you start your system up again after it’s been empty for a while) it takes time to mature the filter. Â There are no shortcuts and you need to have patience. Â We hope…
At this time of year many fish merchants bring in Canadian lobster (Homarus americanus) as the native UK lobster is harder to get a hold of and more expensive. Although our systems are capable of storing these shellfish there are a number of challenges that operators should be aware of. Usually the Canadians are imported…
Which is better? Â The Lobster Pod versus Traditional Lobster Tanks. Firstly, I’d like to be clear that we always recommend a filter which at the absolute minimum has an ultraviolet steriliser, a mechanical filter, a biological filter and a protein skimmer. Â Why would you risk having any quantity of lobsters or crab in a tank…