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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HankstankXXXL750" data-source="post: 11378034" data-attributes="member: 195173">I started doing this and have had some success. I got my starter cultures from [USER=12440]@Eldredge[/USER] here on R2R and he gave me great advice on how to proceed.You cannot culture a mix like ocean magic as one phyto will out perform the others. Have to run individual cultures. I am currently running 5, but a couple crashes and am restarting. I have two sets of buckets and have the second set cleaned, sterilized and refilled with sterilized saltwater (RODI/Instant Ocean/Bleach) day before I switch I dose ascorbic acid to neutralize the bleach. Then I drain 1/2 the new water into buckets (I fill them all the way so the bleach water helps to keep it all sterilized until I’m ready) then I transfer 1/2 of the culture into the new bucket and add F/2 and run. Then the other 1/2 I mix together in equal parts then pour together into storage containers that I refrigerate while using it. I dose my tanks and my pods.for my pods I run 1 gallon glass jars and when I harvest I suck out the gunk and everything from the bottom and then pour through a series of sieves to separate. I may end up with a portion of the “gunk” in my harvest but mostly it is clean. I have sieves from 800,250,120,52 micron.when I first started I pulled a 16 Oz bottle of each and kept open for air and sealed and inverted everyday for a back up starter. Once I moved from the 1 gallon jugs to the 5 I quit doing that (wish I hadn’t as I had to order replacement starters from Dave when they crashed this week lol). With starting transferring each week I will probably either keep back a portion or start running my 1 gallon system as a back up to my 5 gallon system.as far as the build up on the pod vessel are you using RODI?</blockquote>

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