MondoBongo
Obligate Feeder Obsessed
is anyone here interested in a starter green water culture?
i've been culturing phyto for a couple weeks now to feed my pods and it has been going pretty well. usually every 1 - 2 weeks i split the cultures out, feed a bunch to my pods, and give some away to others who want to start a culture.
mine are currently growing in two 2-liter pop bottles, each started with a couple tablespoons of refrigerated phyto i got from an LFS. for lighting i just set the bottles in a window that gets good sunlight most of the day.
i've been using the Melev's reef article as my basic guide:
http://www.melevsreef.com/phytoplankton.html
salinity about 1.019 (2.52%), and 5ML of Miracle Grow per 2L of saltwater.
if anyone would like to start their own culture, let me know, and the next time i split (probably in about two weeks or so) i can set aside a cup or so for you. if you're not going to start a culture immediately it should keep fairly well in your fridge for a couple weeks. just make sure you label it, so no one thinks it is delicious Ecto-Cooler and drinks it.
all i ask in return is that you can meet me somewhere relatively close (i live in the south hills), and if for some reason my cultures would crash in the future and yours were still living, i could get a couple tablespoons back to start up another culture set.
i've been culturing phyto for a couple weeks now to feed my pods and it has been going pretty well. usually every 1 - 2 weeks i split the cultures out, feed a bunch to my pods, and give some away to others who want to start a culture.
mine are currently growing in two 2-liter pop bottles, each started with a couple tablespoons of refrigerated phyto i got from an LFS. for lighting i just set the bottles in a window that gets good sunlight most of the day.
i've been using the Melev's reef article as my basic guide:
http://www.melevsreef.com/phytoplankton.html
salinity about 1.019 (2.52%), and 5ML of Miracle Grow per 2L of saltwater.
if anyone would like to start their own culture, let me know, and the next time i split (probably in about two weeks or so) i can set aside a cup or so for you. if you're not going to start a culture immediately it should keep fairly well in your fridge for a couple weeks. just make sure you label it, so no one thinks it is delicious Ecto-Cooler and drinks it.
all i ask in return is that you can meet me somewhere relatively close (i live in the south hills), and if for some reason my cultures would crash in the future and yours were still living, i could get a couple tablespoons back to start up another culture set.
