Best Place To Keep Your Home Brewed Phytoplankton?

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Wonder what’s the best place to keep your home brewed phytoplankton AFTER you harvest it? Sunny windowsill, refrigerator, or somewhere else?

Presently, I’m keeping mine in the refrigerator but I have to shake the bottle each day to keep the phytoplankton suspended.

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Wonder what’s the best place to keep your home brewed phytoplankton AFTER you harvest it? Sunny windowsill, refrigerator, or somewhere else?

Presently, I’m keeping mine in the refrigerator but I have to shake the bottle each day to keep the phytoplankton suspended.

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Unless you're using a couple of quarts a week, I'd suggest the refrigerator
 
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Unless you're using a couple of quarts a week, I'd suggest the refrigerator
So I use about 3 quarters every 2 week on my 90g aquarium (which is what I brew every 2 weeks.). Corals love it!
 

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I have a 10 gallon plastic reservoir used to do 1 gallon water changes per day. Each Tuesday and Saturday it gets about a gallon of finished phyto diluted with 2 parts fresh saltwater. In the reservoir is a power head. Grow Light on outside for 6 hours per day.
So we try to keep the phyto fresh in the reservoir.
 
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I have a 10 gallon plastic reservoir used to do 1 gallon water changes per day. Each Tuesday and Saturday it gets about a gallon of finished phyto diluted with 2 parts fresh saltwater. In the reservoir is a power head. Grow Light on outside for 6 hours per day.
So we try to keep the phyto fresh in the reservoir.
What a great idea! Do you find that the phytoplankton is still growing in your ATO while waiting for the water change?
 

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What a great idea! Do you find that the phytoplankton is still growing in your ATO while waiting for the water change?
Don't know, but that's the idea. It is alive, verified via microscope.
I could not find any source as to how long the common species live, nano, Tetra, iso, etc, outside a fridge.
 
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Don't know, but that's the idea. It is alive, verified via microscope.
I could not find any source as to how long the common species live, nano, Tetra, iso, etc, outside a fridge.
This is a phenomenal idea! You got me seriously thinking here…
 

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