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How to grow live marine phytoplankton

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Uploaded by on Apr 1, 2011

Take live phytoplankton and start your own. need a 1gl bottle, 30w cool fluorescent light, air pump, liquid all purpose plant food miracle gro,

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  • What temperature is it when your growing it under the counter? Is it safe for it to be at a temperature higher than it says to store it in on the bottle while growing it?

  • @kwbsurfer You want to be at room temp ( 65 to 80 )

  • what's that for?

  • @Nettuno88 It's food for Clams, soft corals, feather dusters, tunicates, sponges and many sand bed inhabitants

  • I assume this is not for human consumption?

  • @paullie6719  Hello, Ro or tap water is ok to use , i go back and forth and i don't see a different . you just have to make sure that you clean everything really good.

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  • how can i star it i have a bottle that i bought is like half or less full ,so how much i need to star and have more,because i dont have half gal of phytoplankton?can u explain better to me.

  • @kissingbanditt 16hours + 8hours is 3 days . . . ?

    You live on saturn or something?

  • @nightreef1 Nice video there. I got some questions for you: Would you use tank water (with more RO/DI water to get down to 1.019) or you only take newly mixed salt? For the first mix, would you use a smaller bottle, or have a more diluted "plankton mix"? Last question: Let's say you don't use all the plankton you produce, would you just wait before spliting the bottles, or would you throw the old planktons down the drain, fill it back and put it into the fridge, then split the rest?

  • very informative video, just lost you in one part..you said after you split and make your new batch to put it under light for 16 hours then 8 off...ok, then what? you said after a week or two it will be ready...but 16 hours plus 8 hours is only 3 days...my question is what do u you do? repeat the light intervals? or is it ready after 3 days or so?

    thank you.

  • lol just playin bout the wording good info.

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