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Thanks! I started with the 2 gal glass jars beneath then upgraded to the 3 gal plastic car boys, which are much easier to deal with. I am culturing Tisochrisis, Tetraselmis, and Rhodomonas (brown,green,red). I learned a lot from top shelf aquatics YouTube series with their in-house phyto specialist. Long story short, I think daily dosage of LIVE phtyo is a game changer from a nutrition standpoint, especially for corals, but even for fish.
I put tons of this stuff in my tank and have seen nothing but beneficial results the main very obvious one is the explosion of diverse copopods everywhere i look.
I am in the process of starting up something of an aquaculture business and plan on selling it soon!
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I put tons of this stuff in my tank and have seen nothing but beneficial results the main very obvious one is the explosion of diverse copopods everywhere i look.
I am in the process of starting up something of an aquaculture business and plan on selling it soon!
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What does your trace element regime look like? Are you using a general trace element system and then tweaking some specific stuff after the icp test? Or are you doing moonshiners? Not sure I’m going down that road but some sort of trace element dosing seems smart. I have mostly counted on water changes taking care of things but I’m interested.
Keeping in mind I think for sooo long before making any real changes. Haha
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What does your trace element regime look like? Are you using a general trace element system and then tweaking some specific stuff after the icp test? Or are you doing moonshiners? Not sure I’m going down that road but some sort of trace element dosing seems smart. I have mostly counted on water changes taking care of things but I’m interested.
Keeping in mind I think for sooo long before making any real changes. Haha
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Keeping in mind I think for sooo long before making any real changes. Haha
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Here are my ideal numbers and what I'm shooting for each month, recommend looking at fauna marins library for each element. Great information on what the element does, how much is too high or too low how to recognize that etc.
Don't worry about iodine. Neither OES nor MS can tell which type of idoine was in the water and only Iodide is useful... Organic Iodine, elemental iodine, iodide, iodate, I++, shineola, etc. and all of the other forms show the same peak on ICP, but they are not useful. The compound matters, not the element, which is true of most things which is why ICP often has more questions than answers. My point is that it is not likely that iodine is overdosed, just in a form that is measured but not active.
If you are feeding your fish a wide variety of food, and enough of it, there are likely enough traces in it to supplement something like a CaRx or other way to get the macro elements. This includes iodide. Most of those elements do not have a known useful set point in marine aquaria that people other than supplement sellers can agree upon.
There are some massive ICP and trace threads on r2r with the organic chemists like Bingman, Dr RHF, including Cristoph who owns Oceamo, that outline what you really need to be looking for. Most things that come back in a test that are useful are done with titration, conductivity and stuff and not so much the ICP. A definate rabbit-hole, but a good read. In the end, you end up questioning everything that anybody knows about anything beyond probably 6 parameters.
If you are feeding your fish a wide variety of food, and enough of it, there are likely enough traces in it to supplement something like a CaRx or other way to get the macro elements. This includes iodide. Most of those elements do not have a known useful set point in marine aquaria that people other than supplement sellers can agree upon.
There are some massive ICP and trace threads on r2r with the organic chemists like Bingman, Dr RHF, including Cristoph who owns Oceamo, that outline what you really need to be looking for. Most things that come back in a test that are useful are done with titration, conductivity and stuff and not so much the ICP. A definate rabbit-hole, but a good read. In the end, you end up questioning everything that anybody knows about anything beyond probably 6 parameters.
I am using a simple grow light led from home depot it has reds blues and whites, which i think covers enough of what the phyto needs. A good amount of aeration is important as well, but not so much that the bubbles start skimming out the phyto.
I think the biggest factor that will crash a culture is contamination. You need fresh made saltwater in a clean bucket, and all vessels and tubing need to be sterilized and rinsed to insure there are no other bacteria or mold cells that will out compete/kill the phyto.
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I think the biggest factor that will crash a culture is contamination. You need fresh made saltwater in a clean bucket, and all vessels and tubing need to be sterilized and rinsed to insure there are no other bacteria or mold cells that will out compete/kill the phyto.
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What does your trace element regime look like? Are you using a general trace element system and then tweaking some specific stuff after the icp test? Or are you doing moonshiners? Not sure I’m going down that road but some sort of trace element dosing seems smart. I have mostly counted on water changes taking care of things but I’m interested.
Keeping in mind I think for sooo long before making any real changes. Haha
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Keeping in mind I think for sooo long before making any real changes. Haha
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