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Well HELLO neighbor!! we are down in Redwood City.
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Well HELLO neighbor!! we are down in Redwood City.
Hiya!Well HELLO neighbor!! we are down in Redwood City.
Thanks for the info. Where/what was your source of pods? How's the upkeep on the cultures, pretty simple I hope?Guillard's f/2 is a fertilizer specifically designed for culturing phytoplankton. I get mine from floridaaquafarms.com but there are lots of places that sell it.
For about a year I cultured large quantities of nannochloropsis, isochrysis (T-iso) and tetraselmis. I also have tried out Thalassorira and Porphyridium in smaller batches but was trying to set up continuous cultures and they crashed after a couple months. It looked pretty cool for a little while (see attached pic).
In my experience, tetraselmis is the easiest and most reliable. I know everyone says nanno is the easiest but that has not been my experience. The tet I used in this experiment was started from a 250ml starter left in my fridge for at least a year. I put it into a 5 gallon bucket and it started right back up. Try that with nanno (I have - it did not work out)... Which also leads to the primary reason I used tetraselmis for this - it's the only strain I currently have on hand because none of my other starters were viable. So... yeah I might try starting up some others again but would have to buy them so right now all I have to work with is tetraselmis. But this strain I have seems to be practically bulletproof so I figured it would be the best option anyway.
For pods I used Algagen for tisbe and apocyclops and and Reef Nutrition for Tig pods. I know algae barn also sells some pods and I recommend them in general although I've never bought pods from there. They are all abit pricey but after you get a culture started it should last a long time (potential of indefinitely).Thanks for the info. Where/what was your source of pods? How's the upkeep on the cultures, pretty simple I hope?
That looks delicious, can I have a double shot of that green stuff! Mmmmm....Guillard's f/2 is a fertilizer specifically designed for culturing phytoplankton. I get mine from floridaaquafarms.com but there are lots of places that sell it.
For about a year I cultured large quantities of nannochloropsis, isochrysis (T-iso) and tetraselmis. I also have tried out Thalassorira and Porphyridium in smaller batches but was trying to set up continuous cultures and they crashed after a couple months. It looked pretty cool for a little while (see attached pic).
In my experience, tetraselmis is the easiest and most reliable. I know everyone says nanno is the easiest but that has not been my experience. The tet I used in this experiment was started from a 250ml starter left in my fridge for at least a year. I put it into a 5 gallon bucket and it started right back up. Try that with nanno (I have - it did not work out)... Which also leads to the primary reason I used tetraselmis for this - it's the only strain I currently have on hand because none of my other starters were viable. So... yeah I might try starting up some others again but would have to buy them so right now all I have to work with is tetraselmis. But this strain I have seems to be practically bulletproof so I figured it would be the best option anyway.