Comments on: Culturing Plankton

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:43:30 +0000

I purchased the Micro Algae disk and the Micro Algae grow from your AquaFarms link but I called first because they didn’t quote a shipping price. That is unusual for a website to not tell you what your price will be for shipping. The two items cost me $15 and I was told over the phone that shipping would be about $6. When I ordered the products (Two items) The shipping was $11.83. That is high for one small box. This stuff better be good.

By: Mad Hatter Reef

Mad Hatter Reef — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:24:17 +0000

I’ve never cultured phytoplankton from the disk before. Good information here.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 01 May 2011 05:58:04 +0000

I’ve been doing it this way for years and don’t like to use only nanochloropsus. Every Florida Aquafarms sels is easy to grow. Now that Frank is no longer there you can’t tell when you are going to get your order, however. I think CCMP (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean $cience$50, but they have everything) and Seahorse Source dot com are good places too. Now that we can order everything from calanoid copepod eggs to live adults from AlgaGen dot com I’m going to start adding them. I think calanoid N1 nauplii is going to keep a lot more of my baby fish alive.

By: John

John — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:05:26 +0000

When I have my plankton growing, under 24hrs lighting, and using micro algae grow, it seems that it isn’t getting as dark as many pictures I have seen on the web. For example, the batch I have going now has been growing for about 6 days, but isn’t very dark. I’m thinking I just didn’t wait long enough on the first batch, before doubling it to make the second batch.

This is my second batch, as the first was used to double the amount growing. Once it gets dark enough, when I put it in new bottles and start over, how much of the mature algae do I use in the new bottles? 50% mature, and 50% new saltwater?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:46:30 +0000

Hey, I love your site and have looked at it for reference several times, but now am starting on my own and was wondering if you could give me an idea of how much of stuff I need to order and how many spawns it will last me. Thanks so much!!
Ryan

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:57:44 +0000

A culture cannot be started from rotifer diet.

By: Ric Schildwachter

Ric Schildwachter — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:34:30 +0000

I’m just starting my first attempt with clown fry. I’ve got my rotifers in their bucket and it looks like a bottle of rotifer diet from Reed Mariculture should last quite a while but can a culture be started from this purchased bottle of rotifer diet?