culturing Green water from tank water...

[chinmo]

hey culture fanatics! i've read up on other sites that it maybe possible to culture GREEN water from aged tank water..... Possible?

[FuEl]

Seems possible. Just use a pure strain culture for initial innoculation and make sure you have enough phosphates and other necessary nutrients in the water to fuel their growth?

[chinmo]

Seems possible. Just use a pure strain culture for initial innoculation and make sure you have enough phosphates and other necessary nutrients in the water to fuel their growth?

erm..... think they don use any strain wor.... just scope water from tank..... leave under sunlight or strong lightings... whoa la! GREEN water! Dun know whether true or not?

[ervine]

U get green water coz of algae not coz of phyto leh...

[ryz]

phytoplankton = algae

[ervine]

wrong type of algae?

[chinmo]

if it turns the water( not walls of container) into green colour.... That's what i want!

[Clownfish]

u shld use sterilised saline water if not minimum freshly mixed saltwater to culture phytoplankton.... else ur culture is gonna crash...

[johntanjm]

u know... i was just thinking.. why dont we use the stuff collected from our protein skimmer to feed the plankton? hahahha... since its all nutrients inside.