I want to make a fish tank with Pyrocystis fusiformis and/or Pyrocystis lunula so that critters in the tank will disturb the algae and make it glow. Does anyone know what special conditions/considerations I might have to make to keep a stable population in sufficient numbers? I'm having trouble finding any good information and am almost to the point of just throwing together as simple a tank as I can, adding the algae and seeing what happens. I know they are dinoflagellates, and I've seen several articles about how to get rid of such, but nothing that seems useful for keeping a stable equilibrium like I want (plus I don't even know if these species are the kind of dinoflagellate that cause problems...)
Bioluminescent Algae tank?
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Bongo Shrimp
P. ceratophthalma
You'd have to culture them outside the tank and add them all the time to keep seeing them in the tank. They are a pelagic species and will not survive and grow in a standard filtered aquarium. They are different than the dinoflagellates that cause problems in aquariums.
Sounds cool, try it! Do you have access to said glowing algae?
Sure, it sounds difficult and impractical. But if you want it, give it a go. That's how breakthroughs are achieved. Bongo Shrimp said it was pelagic and wouldn't work in a standard aquarium. How about a jellyquarium?
I love weird ideas like this…
Sure, it sounds difficult and impractical. But if you want it, give it a go. That's how breakthroughs are achieved. Bongo Shrimp said it was pelagic and wouldn't work in a standard aquarium. How about a jellyquarium?
I love weird ideas like this…
Bongo Shrimp
P. ceratophthalma
No, it would not work in any filtered aquarium. They need to be cultured like any other type of plankton, in an unfiltered vessel.
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