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rkelman
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That's cool agsansoo. I'd love to go to Hawaii. How are your own phyto cultures doing? You should have some ready by now.. How big are the containers / How long have they been culturing ect?
Its funny in a way. You can't get enough phyto and I can't get rid of it from my 16 day olds tank lol. I do water changes it comes back. Last night i figured I'd load the tank with Rots and nothing. The rots are gone and the tank is greener than ever. Here's a pic. Today it was much worse than in this pic.
Its funny in a way. You can't get enough phyto and I can't get rid of it from my 16 day olds tank lol. I do water changes it comes back. Last night i figured I'd load the tank with Rots and nothing. The rots are gone and the tank is greener than ever. Here's a pic. Today it was much worse than in this pic.
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agsansoo
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Well the rots in a 5 quart container the larvae were in, that's crawling with rots. I harvested 1/4 of them yesterday. The other two containers are 1 quarts each. One has L-strain rots, the other has s-strain rots. The L-strain container like the 5 quart is doing very well. The s-train is reproducing a little slower, I think due to their size. The s-strain is so small, about half the size of the L-strain. Like fine dust in the greenwater. I've been culturing the L-strain (e-bay purchase) one week. The S-strain (SeaHorseSource.com) I started last Thrusday. Live Phyto is a week old and not dark green yet. I only have one liter of live phyto going. Nano disks were shipped today from FAF .... 
agsansoo
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Yes, I'm using the e-bay supplied fertilizer. The phyto looked darker green tonight, so I split it I guess. Is it still called a split if I double the saltwater in the same container ? Plus I added more fertilizer. I did notice the live phyto does not smell. So I'm guessing that's a good thing ?
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That's cool agsansoo. I'd love to go to Hawaii. How are your own phyto cultures doing? You should have some ready by now.. How big are the containers / How long have they been culturing ect?
Its funny in a way. You can't get enough phyto and I can't get rid of it from my 16 day olds tank lol. I do water changes it comes back. Last night i figured I'd load the tank with Rots and nothing. The rots are gone and the tank is greener than ever. Here's a pic. Today it was much worse than in this pic.
Very cool! Looks like you're doing things right
For a quick and dirty fast start up, you can chop up the disk and drop it in your culture bottle, shake really good, and than set up your bottle at the culture station. It gets things going much faster than the typical method of adding a thing layer of culture water to the disk and floating off the top layer to a smaller culture vessel. The downside is that you end up with bits of gelatin in the culture that can lead to bacterial problems if your sanitation is bit off.
agsansoo
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s1214215, It's easy to build.
The whole thing sits inside the tank the evening the eggs are due to hatch. When the eggs hatch after lights out the fry are drawn to a moon light taped to my tank. Theres a small pump (Rio 50) inside the coffee filter 1/4"pvc pipe that sucks anything that comes near the slot in the Tupperware. The fry are protected from the pump by the coffee filter. After about an hour all are in the holding tank, the key for me was finding the right size pump and light. Though I'm re-thinking my design after my last hatch Friday night.
The whole thing sits inside the tank the evening the eggs are due to hatch. When the eggs hatch after lights out the fry are drawn to a moon light taped to my tank. Theres a small pump (Rio 50) inside the coffee filter 1/4"pvc pipe that sucks anything that comes near the slot in the Tupperware. The fry are protected from the pump by the coffee filter. After about an hour all are in the holding tank, the key for me was finding the right size pump and light. Though I'm re-thinking my design after my last hatch Friday night.
