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Hi everyone,
I’m playing around with the idea of culturing some plankton. I see all of these fancy setups with giant jugs and crazy lights...
But in the wild, we know they stay near the surface of the water because... well of the sun, so if I were to put my reactor in a sunny area shouldn’t that be enough? I imagine that algae would be a potential issue since they say to keep fish tanks out of the sun for the same reason. But then we go and put super high powered lights on a tank and make sure we grow the ‘right’ algae instead. So could the same concept be applied to a plankton setup? Am I missing something here?
I’m playing around with the idea of culturing some plankton. I see all of these fancy setups with giant jugs and crazy lights...
But in the wild, we know they stay near the surface of the water because... well of the sun, so if I were to put my reactor in a sunny area shouldn’t that be enough? I imagine that algae would be a potential issue since they say to keep fish tanks out of the sun for the same reason. But then we go and put super high powered lights on a tank and make sure we grow the ‘right’ algae instead. So could the same concept be applied to a plankton setup? Am I missing something here?