Does algae barn ship to you?In case you missed it, it didint work. Im on the search for live ulva. It could be the processing or that they really add small quantities of it.
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Does algae barn ship to you?In case you missed it, it didint work. Im on the search for live ulva. It could be the processing or that they really add small quantities of it.
Does algae barn ship to you?In case you missed it, it didint work. Im on the search for live ulva. It could be the processing or that they really add small quantities of it.
Yeah i saw in another thread that he lives somewhere that not many suppliers ship to.Yes they ship. Only $9 for me
It's just a sea weedI’m suprised it’s that cheap to be honest
Yeah, but pods are just pods, but they’re 45-60$ lolIt's just a sea weed
660nmWhat light is best to grow this seaweed?
Does algae barn ship to you?
One thing I do believe is that it keeps some people grounded and keeps their mind engaged. I find this true of me. Worth every dime. Lol
Yes but 60 usd for shipping is crazy for a piece of algae.
Ok , so Ive been experimenting all week , I ordered some dried Flake type Ulva Lactaca , didnt recieve yet .also ordered some powdered .
I live in South Florida and usually have the ability to find my own macrolgae's here, especially this week as we've had a brisk 25 knot wind washing everything up onto my beaches. Went out beach combing on Wednesday , could find much Ulva but their was copious amounts of many Macro algae avai;able . Introduced into my sump some handfull's of various types . also added a plentiful amount of various copapods and many other types of Zooplankton . ( also from my local waters , which are very easy to capture many different types by swirling Sargassum weed into a container of water ) I introduced 1000's into my frag tank sump along with the Macro's Wed. night.I also started dosing phytoplankton wed night.
Brief backround on my dino problem , which I have never had in over 30 years of reefing . I set up a 60 gal frag tank about 8 months ago . completely cycled very quickly with much rock and sand from my display tank sump. noticed the Dino outbreak about 4 weeks ago , which I wrongly diagnosed as a diatom out beak, and was going to ride it out . after proper identification, I read thru the expansive Dino thread , and started to take some action about 2 weeks ago. tried 3 day black out , which greatly diminished the Dinos , removed alot of sand ,boiled, and returned to tank last early last weekend , 2 days later Dino's Started returning stronger than before . Saw this thread last Sunday ( Thanks Scrubber Steve) which led me to a couple days of research online. Whats been interesting to me is why I have no outbreak in my display tank , which is much more mature , in terms of the overall biomass . Even though both systems are separated , I am constantly cross contaminating the two systems , when I feed , and moving rock and livestock between the two, and lots of other things . Theirs also a large difference in water parameters between the two. system tank runs very high NO3, and fairly high PO4, frag tank was running undetectable levels of both. I started dosing both Nitrates and Phosphates into the Dino contaminated frag tank on Thursday.
Although I cannot pinpoint the cause within the last 3 days visible Dino's have reduced to almost nothing , and I stopped mechanically removing removing them on Thursday night so I could monitor more accurately. Its been only 48 hours of not seeing the bloom recurring during daylight hours.
I firmly believe the information on certain biochemical release by Macro algaes that may be toxic to dinoflagellates . I also have read that various Zooplankton feed on Dino's . Something Ive added has directly caused the Dino level in this system to drop dramatically , and obviously it has nothing to do with out competing them for nutrients.
So this is what has been added:
5-10 different types of Macro algae
lots of Zooplankton
Nitrates
Phosphates
Zooplankton
I wish these activities could have been a little more like a controlled experiment , but i had no patience to spend months trying one addition at a time.
any thoughts ?
Awesome. Is that a bulb from Home Depot or one you found online?660nm
Its the spectrum of light most necessary for photosynthesisAwesome. Is that a bulb from Home Depot or one you found online?
Do you have some photos of before & after?Absolutely AMAZED !!!
got my 1 oz of sea lettuce from Algae Barn on friday , but didn't have time to deal with it because I was leaveing the next morning for 4 days , so I put it in a mesh bag and floated it in the display part of my evo 13.5 . got home today to find that 75 % of my 3 month dino nightmare gone !
other than debris from dead algae and brown covered sand around the very outside edges , I've got white sand !