Phytoplankton Culture
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It's generally around 68 to 70 degrees year round.
Not yet. As soon as I finish my upgrade this week I'm going to get started on it. I'll have to pickup a culture and I'm all set.
That's super cheap.
That would be awesome.
Very nice.
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Cool, those algeal discs have a lot of cells on them. I think that some might have been killed by the chlorine more then enough survived. Just wait until it looks like gnarly pea soup and you are good to go
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Great!!! Think that will be about a week? How do you sterilize the tanks?
Next week I am going to be purchasing a bunch of copepods and amphipods and start two separate cultures. I am thinking about a culture of a variety of copepod species and a amphipod culture. I really want to limit my frozen food. I think it will be better to have algae grazers than adding PO4 in the frozen food.
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That's awesome. I could give you a cup of water out of my chaeto Chamber it's loaded with pods. That's all I'm going to use to breed mine.
Little tip - you may want to go by a brewer's supply store and replace those cut/drilled metal lids with rubber/silicone stoppers. Over time they'll rust out and potentially contaminate your culture or at least turn seriously gross after about 3-4 months.
Learned about this the hard way when my coworker and I attempted to build DIY red volcano shrimp "ecospheres" (read - off-the-shelf unsealed room-temp pico vases)... almost all of his shrimp died in the first 72 hours, all of mine plus one Bruce Willis-style last-man-standing survivor from his are still trucking after over 3 years. Only difference was the drilled sheet metal lid (his) versus acrylic lid (mine).
Learned about this the hard way when my coworker and I attempted to build DIY red volcano shrimp "ecospheres" (read - off-the-shelf unsealed room-temp pico vases)... almost all of his shrimp died in the first 72 hours, all of mine plus one Bruce Willis-style last-man-standing survivor from his are still trucking after over 3 years. Only difference was the drilled sheet metal lid (his) versus acrylic lid (mine).
Seems to be growing really well. Every day except 3 to 4 appears to be a big difference.
