New take on dosing phyto

[Subsea]

I have a 2L Tetraselmis phytoplankton culture that doubles every four days. At present it goes into a 5G bucket of Apocalypse Copepods. In addittion to air bubbler this zooplankton culture is illuminated for 16hrs with 40W led grow light. It was my intention to continue growing phytoplankton as Copepods were consuming phyto. Also in 5G bucket is Red Grapes & Feather Caulerpa. When pod density in 5G bucket is self sustaining, I will add pods to a diy pod generator.

 

[Subsea]

I was dosing phyto and switched to easyreefs booster and saw the same results personally, good idea but too much work for me personally as somebody who is always traveling for work. Watching the thread to see where it goes

Do you dose “easy reefs“ booster manually or automatic?

 

[Hydrored]

Do you dose “easy reefs“ booster manually or automatic?

Automatic, same for SPS Evo

 

[Subsea]

Automatic, same for SPS Evo

Do you have a thread that describes your dosing system? Is the dosing solution refrigerated?

 

[BTimms]

I dose roughly 32ozs of tetraselmis phyto that I home brew every night 1 hr before lights out

NO3 stays around 5-10

I use to struggle with algae and GHA like everyone else that posts this problem 10,000,000,000,000 on these forums

Took about 2-3mos but my nightly tetraselmis phyto dosing started outcompeting all algae

I have NOT seen any algae (past glass film) in over a year.... and I feed heavy bc im mostly zoas/palys


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Do you run UV?
What type of system do you use to culture phyto?

 

[Virginia Dave]

I use sodium nitrate, and trisodium phosphate it's what I have on hand. Have to buffer it with an acid though. Mainly dosing phyto to get nutrients in tank and make pods explode so I can get some fish I want. To add I have a few picky fish in there already that are only eating live food. They clean the pods out quick. Going through about 1 gallon of pods, and about 2 liter of phyto a week doing this between a few tanks. Pods in back. All gallon jars.

The rubber airline tubes make it appear that you are transferring the phyto and pods with dosing pumps. Is this correct, or am I incorrect? If so, do you notice any phyto or copepod kill from the dosing pumps? Thanks

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

The rubber airline tubes make it appear that you are transferring the phyto and pods with dosing pumps. Is this correct, or am I incorrect? If so, do you notice any phyto or copepod kill from the dosing pumps? Thanks

The person you are asking hasn’t been on in a few months, but I’ll add that I’m sure a peristaltic dosing pump won’t kill phytoplankton. I also think it unlikely to kill pods.

 

[Virginia Dave]

The person you are asking hasn’t been on in a few months, but I’ll add that I’m sure a peristaltic dosing pump won’t kill phytoplankton. I also think it unlikely to kill pods.

Many thanks. Most dosing pumps are only 2mm, about 1/12 of an inch. While I think this should be
fine for phyto, it seems that the sudden acceleration might rip off the longer antennae of things like calanoids. On the other hand, if the calanoids are about to be eaten, it may not matter how well they take the transfer. Thanks for the response.