@Reef Nutrition
Do you have data of nutritional value of fresh harvested phytoplankton compared to bottled & stored at room temperature and/or refrigerate?
A friend is designing an automatic continuous drip/dose of live phytoplankton from bottled live culture. Assuming max 80 degree ambient temperatur, what max usage time would you suggest.. As an alternate to live phytoplankton, he asked about nutritional value of non living phytoplankton.
Chad,
i use phytoplankton for biomediation in my mixed garden of softies, sponges, feathers, tunicates, bryozoan, clams, flame scallops & sea apples. The tank is 25 years mature with a newly transformed Cryptic refugium from Ecosystem mud/macro refugium. I can not show lab results. After 50 yrs of Reefing, I have unopened test kits 10 yrs old.
On your bio mediation thread, a constant theme was “where does phyto waste go to in our reef tanks”. Instead of nutrients in and nutrients out, let’s focus on nutrient recycling. I don’t protein skim for the same reason, I want multiple food webs to process inorganic & organic nutrients into live food for hungry mouths. Then again, I operate high nutrient invertebrate filter feeder systems.
Do you have data of nutritional value of fresh harvested phytoplankton compared to bottled & stored at room temperature and/or refrigerate?
A friend is designing an automatic continuous drip/dose of live phytoplankton from bottled live culture. Assuming max 80 degree ambient temperatur, what max usage time would you suggest.. As an alternate to live phytoplankton, he asked about nutritional value of non living phytoplankton.
Chad,
i use phytoplankton for biomediation in my mixed garden of softies, sponges, feathers, tunicates, bryozoan, clams, flame scallops & sea apples. The tank is 25 years mature with a newly transformed Cryptic refugium from Ecosystem mud/macro refugium. I can not show lab results. After 50 yrs of Reefing, I have unopened test kits 10 yrs old.
On your bio mediation thread, a constant theme was “where does phyto waste go to in our reef tanks”. Instead of nutrients in and nutrients out, let’s focus on nutrient recycling. I don’t protein skim for the same reason, I want multiple food webs to process inorganic & organic nutrients into live food for hungry mouths. Then again, I operate high nutrient invertebrate filter feeder systems.