Recent content by Roadtoad

Coral Vite probably wont work. BTW, algae and plants need copper to grow miracle grow probably has more than you want though. If you can order some stuff from florida aqua farms use micro algae grow or you can get Guillard's F/2 media from other vendors. Algae will grow on lots of things...

I have had good luck growing nanochloropsis in fresh water with gold fish as the supplier of fertilizer. Just feed the goldfish regularly and the culture grows fast! When I need to feed the rotifers I just add enough salt to bring it up to the right concentration.

If you are familiar with basic microbiology techniques you should be able to clone algae from your tank or basically any natural water source. Some of the more commonly cultured species can live auxotrophically and therefore can be grown on agar plates. You then would have to pick colonies and...

most phytoplankton is smaller than 200 microns.

Be careful what you are asking about. You said you want to dose Kalk. Kalk does not need CO2, CO2 is used in a calcium reactor. Kalk is used in a Kalk reactor. They are very different. It would be relatively easy to make a Kalkreactor out of PVC. Look at commercially available designs and...

Hey tangs, are you in pacifica CA?

1/4 inch glass should do the trick especially if the light has to travel through the water and tank glass before it hits you. You can get special UV absorbing glass-talk to a specialty shop (borosilicate?). I was thinking of making one of these fixtures and I thought a glass tube around the...

I had a small tank set up with a 6 inch sand bed of the local "play sand" from Home Despot. Although the sand was nearly pure silica in origin, I did not have any problems with algae nor diatom blooms that everyone seems to be concerned with. The article is interesting, hopefully people will...

Is it an encrusting-slime like algae? I have some brown algae that grows into half shell-like and corkscrew like shapes. When it overgrows I just pull it out.