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| New Red!!!!; A red phytoplankton! | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 30 2010, 07:26:33 AM (348 Views) | |
| Post #1 Apr 30 2010, 07:26:33 AM | Suzy |
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I am so pumped! Amie got a sweet present from her out of town friend! Girl, you have got to tell us about this guy! He sends you the coolest alga I have had for years, the pods I have been trying to culture for years, AND donuts?! Spill it! I know why I want to give you stuff: You are the coolest reefer I know! But, is he sending you stuff because of that, or because you are the only actual reefer in Utah that is credited in a real published book or because you are so incredibly cute? Back on topic! Everyone who has known me for a while knows I love phyto, right? In fact, on my own webpage, there is a photo of when I was growing all 3 color types of phyto: A green, a brown (really yellow) and a red. The red was Rhodomonas, the best alga on the planet because it is high in both types of fatty acids, EPA and DHA. All the other algae I can find to grow is high in one or the other, not both. But, the Rhodomonas was really hard to grow, finicky, needed quite a bit of pampering and need cold temps. I could only grow it in my basement in the winter. As soon as temps in the basement reached 70`, it would peter out. So, I finally gave up on having a red, until now! Amie turned me on to Porphyridium, a red that I cannot find on my old nutrition lists thus far. But, I have found tons of info on it's growth. It seems it is great for growing for fuel sources because it has a strong growth rate! I hope so, because Amie gave it to me when I was having a really busy week, and going out of town. I just put it in a jug by a light source, put in a small bubble line, and left it. I did not put it in any new medium until a few days ago, and I thought maybe I added too much medium and too little innoculation and I was nervous about it. But, today I can see it has grown. and the biggest bonus: Today it is PINK! Thanks, Amie! You know I love PINK stuff in my tanks! |
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| Post #2 May 2 2010, 04:04:34 PM | Amie |
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I'm so glad that it is doing well. Mark says that this phyto is really easy to grow. The guys name is Mark Vera and he owns the company called Phyto2. I don't think he's sending me stuff because I'm cute because we've actually never met. Plus, he seems to be happily married, with a new baby in tow. ;-) Phyto2 sells 3 different kinds of phytoplankton - nanno, tetra and iso. But, behind the scenes, they have quite a few other species that they work with. They also sell a couple different kinds of critters, which I just received this week, btw. (I'll tell you later) Mark is the president of the international Marine Ornamental Fish & Invertebrate Breeders group. So the reason I received donuts was because I have been doing a lot of work with that organization kind of as the secretary to the Board of Directors. He was out of town for quite a while so I kept him up-to-date and in touch with everything that was going on while he was gone and made sure that he stayed in touch when he needed to, etc. He sent the donuts as a thank you for doing that. Cool, huh? He recently sent me 2 types of critters, pseudocyclops and tisbe, plus a large thing of isocrysis (about 1/2 gallon). He sent them to me because he asked me if I would be willing to studying them and see if I could figure out a faster way to get them to multiply. The pseudocyclops are really small, just a little bigger than rotifers, and stay in the water column, but they multiply so slow that he can't do anything with them. If I can figure out the right conditions, maybe they will multiply faster. So I'm going to set up a bunch of different experiments and see what I can do. |
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http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/technology/mammals/interns.html Tell them Adam sent you. | |
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| Post #3 May 2 2010, 04:10:12 PM | Amie |
| BTW, Suzy, I'm sure Mark would love to know any information you can find about the red algae. He hasn't really found a use for it yet and doesn't know what eats it. He has had it tested and knows it's really high is astaxanthin, hence the red color. I could probably get the entire break out of what's in it if you would like. I fed it to the moina last week and they are red now, so they eat it. If we could figure out if rotifers ate it, then it would be an awesome phyto to use when raising larvae because it would enhance their colors. |
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| Post #4 May 3 2010, 10:45:31 AM | Larry H |
| What kind of critters are in the frozen cyclopeze? Are they something like those pseudocyclops? I think it is so cool what you are doing. |
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| Post #5 May 3 2010, 05:09:02 PM | Amie |
| Frozen cyclopeze are Arctic copepods called Calanus glacialis (don't quote me on that). If I was raising them, I'd have to keep them in the refrigerator because they are used to very cold temperatures. |
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| Post #6 May 3 2010, 06:41:59 PM | Suzy |
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That is very cool. I am glad I know a bigwig of MOFIB! When this jug blooms, I will feed it to rots, pods and bbs and see what happens. |
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| Post #7 May 5 2010, 07:45:27 AM | Amie |
| excellent, let me know. And knowing the big wigs definitely is a good and bad thing sometimes. I just got asked to help with some wedding plans, I'm starting to figure out why the donuts got sent. :-/ |
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| Post #8 May 5 2010, 09:58:35 AM | Larry H |
| Planning a wedding has got to be worth more than a box of donuts. It wouldn't be so bad if they lived in Utah. Speaking of donuts my daughter just brought home some donuts from Las Vegas that were better than delicious, bear claws, apple fritters and just glazed and chocolate donuts but get this they were vegan also (no eggs, dairy, honey, etc.). I think she said from a bakery called Ronald's. |
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| Post #9 May 5 2010, 02:45:53 PM | Suzy |
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Can I make the cake? Then you can drive it to Chicago. Overnight so it doesn't get too dry...... ;) |
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| Post #10 May 14 2010, 05:58:49 PM | Amie |
I hit him up for some graphic design stuff for a project I'm working on right now, so it will even out in the end. Actually, I think I'm coming out ahead. |
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