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Giving that we love tech and use any excuse to reduce labour in our tanks I will give you below the diagram to automate a phytoplankton culture. There’s no need to split cultures weekly, just set it up and forget it.
It’s really simple and it worked for me for two consecutive years without crashing.
You will need a doser to do the main work for you. Now you can set this up in the sump area and dose it directly into the tank or in a different room and let it collect in a collection cup and dose it manually.
How it works.
Week 1
Set up you phytoplankton culture as you would do normally and let it grow for 7 days.
Week 2
Select how much phytoplankton you would like to dose daily, anything from 20ml to 200ml, I would recommend to start small and gradually increase the dose according to your tank needs.
You can give it all in one dose or spread it over the day in smaller amounts.
Set your fertiliser line to dose once every 7 days, I used to dose 2ml every 7 days for the amount of phytoplankton I was using.
Important notes:
Add around 20 to 30 k1 micro media to the phytoplankton culture, this will help keeping the culture in suspension and keeping the inner walls of the vessel clean.
Salt mix
This will have to be adjusted depending on how much phytoplankton you dosing, adjustments will have to be made during the process as you will have to take in account the evaporation. I would recommend to start at 1.015 and adjust from there so that you can have a constant 1.019 on the culture.
Fertiliser
Choose one that you feel comfortable with a here’s different formulas out there.
Use 12mm tubing or higher for the overflow in the phytoplankton culture, anything smaller will clog easily.
Hope this helps someone to keep a constant supply of phytoplankton with ease. This system can also be expanded to create a continuous supply of rotifers if anyone interested in knowing how to had that give us a shout.
More information can be found on this thread.
It’s really simple and it worked for me for two consecutive years without crashing.
You will need a doser to do the main work for you. Now you can set this up in the sump area and dose it directly into the tank or in a different room and let it collect in a collection cup and dose it manually.
How it works.
Week 1
Set up you phytoplankton culture as you would do normally and let it grow for 7 days.
Week 2
Select how much phytoplankton you would like to dose daily, anything from 20ml to 200ml, I would recommend to start small and gradually increase the dose according to your tank needs.
You can give it all in one dose or spread it over the day in smaller amounts.
Set your fertiliser line to dose once every 7 days, I used to dose 2ml every 7 days for the amount of phytoplankton I was using.
Important notes:
Add around 20 to 30 k1 micro media to the phytoplankton culture, this will help keeping the culture in suspension and keeping the inner walls of the vessel clean.
Salt mix
This will have to be adjusted depending on how much phytoplankton you dosing, adjustments will have to be made during the process as you will have to take in account the evaporation. I would recommend to start at 1.015 and adjust from there so that you can have a constant 1.019 on the culture.
Fertiliser
Choose one that you feel comfortable with a here’s different formulas out there.
Use 12mm tubing or higher for the overflow in the phytoplankton culture, anything smaller will clog easily.
Hope this helps someone to keep a constant supply of phytoplankton with ease. This system can also be expanded to create a continuous supply of rotifers if anyone interested in knowing how to had that give us a shout.
More information can be found on this thread.
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