culture

First issue: Does anybody have experience with culturing tigger pods? I just started 2 cultures of tigger from reef nutrition. I followed the same protocols for both but 1 seems healthy and the other one is slowly dying. I then found some information saying tigger pods only last 2-3 days. Should...

I lost a culture this week, and I thought it might be helpful to post a picture and a bit of a warning/caution. To the untrained eye, this culture might look green and healthy, but in reality it has almost no phyto. Examined under the microscope, it is actually something that looks like...

I was just wondering if anyone has cultured their phyto under 24/7 light. I’ve seen the average light cycles people use is 12-12 or 16 on - 8 off. It’s not essential to turn off lights for some terrestrial plants although it can be beneficial for the substrate biomes I’ve read. But that’s...

I was wondering what people would think of this, so I plan on buying a Milk Fridge, they're small fridges usually with holes in the sides so you can plumb tubing from usually Milk. I've seen people use them to hold their liquid foods and automatically dose the aquarium. The first thing I would...

Hello, I have been fascinated with copepods, and to be honest, The main reason I wanted to do this was to get a mandarin goby, but then I saw and read and heard the benifts of copepods, and how expensive they are. So I just said ok, lets just culture my own and I believe I have all that I need...

Hey everyone, After moving house recently, I re-set up my tank. However, I have hesitation about my bacteria culture. I have AF pro bio S, bio S, and NP pro but all of them’s expiration date is February 2023. I smelled but none of them smell bad they smell what they should smell like. I kept...

Hey guys! I am starting a phytoplankton and copepod farm. Here is my progress so far. I have the tubes and the culture coming next week. Let me know your tips and tricks if you done this before. I am new to this and I would love the community inputs. Thanks

Started my phytoplankton culture and was wondering which placement of the light would be better. Right against the phyto or on top?

as i start my journey into culturing live foods: phyto,pods,mysis, etc. i’d love to see some of your tanks & get ideas as to how i could go about this. also what’s your favorite “live food” to culture? Thanks!

Hello there, I'm trying to extract and culture zooxanthellae. i know its possible. I have large amounts of Pulsing Xenia, which has a good concertation of zooxanthellae. Anyone tried it before? I've got some lab equipment for the process. Does anyone know a regular microalgae (phytoplankton)...

Happy thanksgiving, I was just wondering. To those of you who culture copepods, what pods do you culture and what do you feed these cultures? Right now I'm only feeding tetraselmis phytoplankton and I'd like to increase my yield every week. I read that other types of foods can help.

Hello. I am wondering If I should buy this it is very cheap, but will this be able to culture my 90 gallon tank with copepods, so my mandarin will be able to get fed?

I've been growing copepods (tisbe and tigriopus) using live phytoplankton as feed (tetraselmis, nannochloropsis, and isochrysis). I've noticed that the phyto I use has a big impact on copepod yield. I'm hoping someone, maybe @Reef Nutrition, @AlgaeBarn, or really just anyone with more...

I don’t know if I want to go through the trouble of cultivating or buying phytoplankton, but I want to cultivate copepods. I wondered if there’s any dried food they will eat or an easier/cheap alternative?

Hello! I've recently gotten into the realm of culturing live foods. Starting with brine shrimp as my fish and coral seem to enjoy them, and because theyre cheap and nutritious. I've been feeding Zoo Med's spirilina 20, and have read you can use a variety of foods (that I havent tried). but saw...

hi all, wondering if this is the right way to go about it. Right now I am on day 2 of my setup and the only thing that concerns me is the color of the water/phyto. Used this stuff to start the phyto culture Used only enough to give the water a tint of green even though this stuff does not...

So I setup a DIY copepod culture to try to keep a supply of pods around to dose my new tank. I have a 2 Liter Erlenmeyer flask w/stopper hooked up to a air pump. I added a jar of Tig pods f/algae barn and have added some ocean magik to tint the water. My water is not quite as dark as some of...

I bought a 500mL Nannochloropsis culture from eBay and thought I'd see if I could keep it alive with a few things I had lying about the house. I couldn't easily get my hands on specific algae culture media, and I wasn't too keen on maintaining a perfectly sterile culture environment, so I wanted...

I'm in the process of setting up aiptasia eating nudibranch culture. I'd love some on egg crates. I'm willing to pick up or pay for shipping if there are enough

I use bleach to sanitize phyto culture water. After growing out a week I use the phyto as feed for copepods and also my reef tank. After bleaching the bioreactor & culture media I "neutralize" the bleach (not sure this is the right term) either using sodium thiosulphate or UV. Is one...

I've been growing copepods for a while in a standalone tank and was wondering, what is the easiest live food to culture? I was thinking maybe Brine shrimp might be easiest but was wondering what people think.

I have decided to remake this thread because answers to this will help reefers all over the world: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/culturing-phytoplankton-without-fertilizer.767227/ Guillards F2 Fertilizer is American made. Which means anyone outside of America has to import it. I have been...

I imagine that the brand of bleach you use likely doesn't matter as long as there are no surfactants or perfumes in the bleach, but I was wondering what various brands of bleach people tend to use for their culture to get a good idea of what has been sort of "vetted" already.

I wanted to improve my phyto setup and I was hoping to improve my setup. I was watching a video and a guy stated that you can snugly fit a 1/4" tubing over a hard 3/16" air line tubing. However, what I don't quite understand is if 1/4" airline tubing would actually fit on a standard Tetra...

I know this diatom is quite common in aquaculture, mainly for shrimps, but I can't seem to find any decent source for a culture for me to start from. In addition, places like AlgaeBarn blend them in with their phyto feeds they sell.... but thats clearly not pure.The most promising seems to be...