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Culturing live plankton & zooplankton


Achilles Tang
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Hi SRC members,

With the keen interest in culturing plankton and zooplankton to feed our corals and invertebrates, I will launching a 'How-To' series.

Although there are excellent sites out there already with good explanations, I will compile concise points and my own personal experiences and tips in our local context.

Be patient as I will be taking some time to compile photos and procedures.

Bawater and Chanbi has recently gotten their own culture kits and will undoubtedly set the trend going with PacificBetta's rotifer culturing and my phytoplankton and rotifer culturing.

I will also go over the artemia culturing procedure too.

AT

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Cheers! :lol: Glad to know that AT is coming up with the "how to".. Me and bawater has started about a week and we should be able to get our first batch to mature by Christmas time (hopefully if everything work out fine). This is my first time in culturing and i am learning quite a bit from AT and bawater.. but it is kind of fun and not as time consuming if u plan out well. But one thing for sure, your sugar level will go up! why? cos' u have to drink a lot of soft drink to get the 1.5l or 2l bottles.. <_< Below is a link given to me by bawater and i think this diy culture station is useful esp. for those who have space constraint (i am using it now)..

DIY culture station

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Cheers! :lol: Glad to know that AT is coming up with the "how to".. Me and bawater has started about a week and we should be able to get our first batch to mature by Christmas time (hopefully if everything work out fine). This is my first time in culturing and i am learning quite a bit from AT and bawater.. but it is kind of fun and not as time consuming if u plan out well. But one thing for sure, your sugar level will go up! why? cos' u have to drink a lot of soft drink to get the 1.5l or 2l bottles.. <_< Below is a link given to me by bawater and i think this diy culture station is useful esp. for those who have space constraint (i am using it now)..

DIY culture station

:lol:

hey, that looks like some mad scientist experiement!

cool, looks easy and thank for the tips. :D

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it was easy to assemble, & with a PVC cutter($13)- even faster. My cost for the PVC was $8,2x 20watt shop lights $20+ 2x 5 outlet air valve $4 each & it took 15mins to put it together. No pics yet, i'm Still busy splitting cultures.

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it was easy to assemble, & with a PVC cutter($13)- even faster. My cost for the PVC was $8,2x 20watt shop lights $20+ 2x 5 outlet air valve $4 each & it took 15mins to put it together. No pics yet, i'm Still busy splitting cultures.

Hi Bawater,

Still waiting for your pics leh :)

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