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It has 2 4' 6700k T5HO's on it so it should be okay. I do still have some phyto left over so I might experiment with different fertilizer amounts for another bottle.Not necessary. Even one drop of phyto can be multiply to a full bottle. The color just seems off. Maybe because of your background color.
You just need strong light on it now.
I was originally going to use that but ended up getting something by Fritz which is supposed to replicate it with 2 bottles (a and b), I followed the recommended dosing on the bottle. Also I used 1.025 saltwater because that's what Ocean Magik is at. Should I make another bottle at a different sg?If your fertilizer is the Florida-aqua-farm Micro Algae Grow F/2, you just need 10-15 drops for that 2L bottle.
You can also start a new bottle of salt water at 1.016 (instead of 1.018) and just put a dash of the phyto in there. You'll be amaze of what a simulated "contamination" can do to a bottle of clear water.
I'll make a few bottles tomorrow with different salinities to try it out. Thanks for your help.I think they put the phyto to 1.025 for the consumer to just dose it into the tank. The problem is, if you culture it like that, by the time your bottle is ready in a week, quite a bit of water will be evaporated, and the salinity will be even higher. That's why I like to start it at 1.018 or lower.
Since the iso and tet are motile organism, I'm afraid it may have salinity shock. I've never tried to change that much salinity for the culture before. You'll have to try it out.
Blackworms I feed every day and have been using them about fifty years but only 46 years in my reef.
It takes about 5 or 10 minutes a day to hatch the shrimp
I prefer smaller tank. Easier to get higher food density. Yet, big enough to have places for them to clang on and hide.
@WesleyC , what is your routine/setup for culturing the copepods? It look like you have a ton of them in there.