Randy can u help me plz....

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I posted this marine plant and macroalgae but no replies maybe I'm to impatient but my rotifiers need phyto. So here we go.

I have a strain of pure phyto called Selenastrum Capricornutum and i was wondering if I can grow this strain in a phyto reactor. Will it take the salinity or not?

the strain is 3 500 000 000 / ml very pure. They use it for feeding water flies which feeds trout here. Its the universities phyto for their experiments. The professor was not to sure if the culture would be able to handle the salinity on sea water. I will be recieving a culture called nanochloropsis phytoplankton
in a month or so.

Thnxs in advance
Regards......

 

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anyone knows...........

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I have no knowledge of its salinity limits.
Does the reactor need to be attached to your tank?

 

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no its not attached to the tank. Can i do a culture with fresh water and feed to rotifier then. When i set up the reactor is said to use cooked sea water 1.019 @ 7.5 ph which this is where i am.
Now being a freshwater culture will it shock and grow like crazy or not. Will this culture pollute my tank if used.

Any info will help.

I use it for a food chain phyto-rotifier-shrimp larval- brine shrimp
eventually ends up in the tank

ok more research for me thnx anyways

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I am by no means an expert on any kind of culture (Greg Hiller is, so you might PM him), so I'm hesitant to comment much, but if you have a reactor, I see no reason you need to use seawater in it.

However, the phyto grown in freshwater won't likely live in seawater, but it may be a fine food.

 

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thnx for the help really appreciated

Regards.........

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

You're welcome.

Happy Reefing.