Wednesday is photo night

When I first mixed this stuff up, the color was blood red, and I thought something must be wrong, so I emailed the company:

From Varicon, the makers of Reed's f/2 dry mix:

Hi Cathy, I'm not sure if you received this already,
we've had so many difficulties with our mails!!

Thankyou for your enquiry. Typically the F2P media
would be mixed at a concentration of 100gr/Litre.

You have mixed at a rate of 200gr/litre, this should
explain the difference in colour. Also I gather you
may have bought this from Reed Mariculture? If so this
is a very recent batch purchased last summer, therefor
the influence of the Vitamin B12 on colour will be
significant. Older batches tend to deteriorate over a
period of 2 years post mix.

I hope this puts your mind at ease!! Pleaase do not
hesitate to contact me again if you require any
further assistance


Warmest regards


Joe McDonald
www.variconaqua.com
aqua-solutions@varicon.co.uk

Nicole,
Try mixing up a small bottle of this:

20 g in 200 ml. That is approximately 4 teaspoons of the dry mix (shake/mix the bag well to get an even distribution of large and small particles before measuring) dissolved in 200 ml good water.

Try using 0.5 ml of this per liter of culture.

 
Jason, are you sure you are getting rid of all the chlorine before you add phyto? Maybe you are bleaching too much. Just a thought.

How much prime are you adding?
 
Wait until I get home from work. I am going to borrow a portable scale from work and find out the grams/teaspoon, really.
 
OK, for this stuff, the density is :
drum roll...

4 grams per teaspoon! (water is 5 grams per tsp)

So that's 5 tsp per 200 ml. Keep it as sterile/clean as possible.

I use at 1/2 ml per 2 liter bottle. Previously I mistakenly said to use 1/2 ml per liter. XXXX
 
Folks,

Have been reading this thread with interest.

Firstly I too use the F2 from Variacon, and Joe is amazingly helpful. One thing that I did was to purshase a bottle of distilled water from a auto shop. It is this that I used to make the fertilizer. I do not have a problem and user 3ml per 1 litre.

I have my cultures, out in the shed at the moment and it is very cold there. Right now, I have two cultures that are still OK, vibrant green, and not a dull (armyish) green. I know that it is a lot colder than the 70 that I have read here,but with the swchedule that I have at the moment I do not do anything to this and it is hanging in there.

I used to bubble gently and it would take forever to darken, so speaking to some friends here, was advised to bubble at a rolling boil. This seemed to speed up the process considerable. I normally start a new culture with about 1/5th of a 2 litre bottle.

Hope this helps.

the ramblings of an ancient......
 
And I though only I have perishing green water ;)

Steve, do you know the brand Aquaconnect in UK? They have a fertilizier called PhytoStabil. Some of my friends have great success with it.

Most people I know use old tanks for Phyto culture. Any reason why you US folks prefer bottels?
 
A few Day 10 pics, courtesy of RC'er gho.

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And the scary one:
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He uses some fancy DSLR. Pro photographers, what can you say? :rolleyes:

I think they are very nice for the tough circumstances -- poor lighting, ISO 500, etc. The one with the dark dots all over him is eerie, but I guess it's normal pigmentation coming in? It's one of the more developed fish.

I like the first one where you can see all the fin rays and everything.
 
AWESOME, I want a DSLR really bad now, but it would cut into my salt budget ;) The clowns look great! My Clarks had black spots, but not to the degree your eerie one has.
 
Well I have the DSLR maybe not quite as nice as that one but not the talent to take pics like that those are awesome. We will see if I can make it that far. Way to go Nicole. I got so many rots now I feed allot to the tank. How do you slow these things down?
 
Feed them to FRY! LOL

You can drop the temp, and cut back on how much you feed them, but don't underestimate the feeding capacity of a tank full of baby clowns. They wiped my rotifers out pretty bad last time, they are just recovering in the nick of time too, another hatch tonight I think.
 
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