My go at Culturing Phytoplankton...

[reddrum]

1 ml of the reed nano paste should feed ~ 1 million rotifers for a day. Make sure it is good and mixed up in saltwater before adding it because it will settle out and make a funk at the bottom of your rotifer tank. It is also helpful to add a small amount of chloramx every once in a while to the culture because you will get ammonia build up depending on how intensive you plan to get.

[Mr Cob]

1 ml of the reed nano paste should feed ~ 1 million rotifers for a day. Make sure it is good and mixed up in saltwater before adding it because it will settle out and make a funk at the bottom of your rotifer tank. It is also helpful to add a small amount of chloramx every once in a while to the culture because you will get ammonia build up depending on how intensive you plan to get.

Great info. THX.

[moe]

Hey Cob,

Just wanted to know how the phyto is coming along? Have u made a good batch? Since last I PM u, I notice a differenc with mine's. One have almost a smoothy look to it. The control batch is slowly chaning colors, while clump move about with the air bubbles. I don't how much of a progress I made, nonetheless I just observe for now.

I would like it to be a sucess. But I fear that I don't have all the proper ingrediants to maintan the batch.

[moe]

I have pic for soon

[Mr Cob]

Hey Cob,

Just wanted to know how the phyto is coming along? Have u made a good batch? Since last I PM u, I notice a differenc with mine's. One have almost a smoothy look to it. The control batch is slowly chaning colors, while clump move about with the air bubbles. I don't how much of a progress I made, nonetheless I just observe for now.

I would like it to be a sucess. But I fear that I don't have all the proper ingrediants to maintan the batch.

Smoothy sounds like a contaminated batch to me. Also, clumps aren't good. What species did you use to start the culture?

I gave up on this and decided that I would just use the phytoplankton paste to feed the rotifers.

I sold my large reef and clowns and will be upgrading in the future so this experiment is kind of dead to me right now.

[moe]

I know how u feel. I started the same species as u did. Do u still have phyto paste?

[moe]

sorry it took so long, but here they are pls let me know what u think















The left tube is the control.

[reddrum]

If that is nanochloropsis it doesn't look good to me. Do you have airation going into the bottles? You shouldn't have any visible clumps in a healthy culture when you start to see clumps it is crashing.I don't know how you started your culture but in large production we bleach the seawater (with VERY little bleach) and then dechlorinate. Contamination will cause a culture to crash fast. Then wait a day, add algae + f/2 (nutrients). Within 4-5 days you should have a water column that is uniform in color and dark green. Keep us updated on the progress.

[Mr Cob]

Moe, those definitely crashed. I had the same problem. I like the "lab" though. Nice "Hobo Tubes".

[moe]

Moe, those definitely crashed. I had the same problem. I like the "lab" though. Nice "Hobo Tubes".

thank cob, I figure they had crash. do u stop ur culture? How did u know the tubes were from ace? lol My friend say it look like a setup for a bomb lol.