I decided to start culturing my own phytoplankton as buying it every other week from my LFS was starting to get expensive (two bottles at $10.50 a pop).
I got my culture vessel all set up and ran over to get my starter culture. It was a nice green color and seemed like a healthy culture.
However, as soon as I added it to the clean salt water in my culture vessel, it immediately turned cloudy white. This doesn’t seem right to me and I am wondering if this culture is dead.
I also added about 15mL to my tank and it made chunky cloudy trails in my tank as soon as it hit the water.
I got my culture vessel all set up and ran over to get my starter culture. It was a nice green color and seemed like a healthy culture.
However, as soon as I added it to the clean salt water in my culture vessel, it immediately turned cloudy white. This doesn’t seem right to me and I am wondering if this culture is dead.
I also added about 15mL to my tank and it made chunky cloudy trails in my tank as soon as it hit the water.