Copepods-BACK IN STOCK-LIMITED!!
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Sorry everyone! I didnt mean to go AWOL but school has been rather testing lately. I'm working in 2 research labs and I was running a club but thankfully the competition for it ended last weekend. On top of that I'm on a engineering job search for something in Colorado while trying to finish up my capstone project. It is literally a sprint to the finish right now. I don't plan to abandon you all as the support I've received here is rather amazing.
I'll have to establish some new cultures as I've lost several; however, I won't be doing too much with Algae Barn until May (finals and hopefully graduation!) but I have stockpiled some equipment which will allow me to ensure greater quality, more consistency and hopefully larger batches. I will try and keep everyone a little more updated and I'm sorry for the news.
I'll have to establish some new cultures as I've lost several; however, I won't be doing too much with Algae Barn until May (finals and hopefully graduation!) but I have stockpiled some equipment which will allow me to ensure greater quality, more consistency and hopefully larger batches. I will try and keep everyone a little more updated and I'm sorry for the news.
Unfortunately Andrew, I don't have anything in stock at the moment. I hope I can find some time before May to purchase some starter cultures(atleast algae) so that I have things in stock by mid-May. I've also invested in some microcontrollers to try and help me maintain a higher quality product when things get a running.
I small update everyone, I have started a 5 gallon culture of tetraselmis and I am in the process of scaling up my nannochloropsis culture. Once I have my nannochloropsis culture scaled up, I will go ahead and order some copepods and more strains of phyto (I'm thinking R. Lens, T. Iso, maybe Pavlova)
I innoculated another 5 gallon culture with a gallon of Nannochloropsis. The tetraselmis culture is coming along, a little slower than expected but the density has been increasing. I'll be starting a tigriopus californicus culture this week and, depending on finances, the week after I'll be ordering 2 strains of algae, rotifers, and 2 more strains of copepods!!
15 Gallons of phytoplankton going! Unfortunately, some of the air pumps I picked up (80W each, they make lovely bubbles) make way to much noise. Looks like I'll either have to get a place with a basement or rent a small warehouse to run those pumps. I have restarted my tigriopus culture and I have also started two cultures from an assortment of copepods from my aquarium. The fish have been eating them rather enthusiastically so I pretty much just need to give it some time and I'll have cultures soon!
-Sean
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