DT's phytoplankton

[spoiledcats]

I was reading about DT's phytoplankton, and would like to find a retailer in my area who carries it. If anyone lives in or near Lehigh Valley, PA and knows of a retailer who carries DT's please let me know. I went to the website, and didn't see a locator option. I have not been able to find it at any of my usual stops.

 

[-TS-Vash]

Grow your own its easy and you can grow gallons for pocket change.

 

[Scatcat]

How do you grow your own phyto?

Thanks
Scat

 

[-TS-Vash]

Green water.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=663491

 

[Snarkys]

do you think the clam will do just as well with dead phyto ?

 

[Peabody]

No....the dead phyto clumps up and becomes too large for them to injest. They have VERY small particle size requirements

 

[Snarkys]

i thought if you used a small blender it would break back up.

 

[Peabody]

I've heard that as a theory, but not so sure. We're talking about a matter of microns, much thinner probably than the tip of a blade. Could be possible. There's also a matter of nutrition...dead perserved stuff isn't probably near as good as live.

Al in all, dead stuff, blended or not is still a million times better than not

 

[-TS-Vash]

If there dead then you lose all the nutritional value and your wasting you time anyway.

You can feed phyto to brine to and that makes them more nutritional as well.

 

[Snarkys]

hmm i "heard" differently. that the dead phyto is actually killed and preserved at the height of its nutritional cycle where as live products like DT's you never really know how much nutrition they still have, they can be alive and almost nutritionally empty for a long time. I guess i thought the reasons why live was better was because it swims around and stays in the water and that it is alive so it can find its way to the clams/corals over a period of time where dead phyto will start to decay in a matter of hours. out of the fridge and at t tank temps the phyto wont hold its energy/nutrition long anyways will it ? think you could keep the dead stuff suspended in the water with good pumps like tunze's ?

obviously culturing your own phyto is the best option , i just don't have time for that .