Things You'll Need
- Nanochloropus green plankton on disk
- Synthetic sea water with a specific gravity of 1.019
- 5 plastic bottles, 4-pints
- 5 vibrator air pumps
- 8-foot air tubing
- 5 wooden air diffusers
- Micro Algae Grow
Instructions
Add a small volume of synthetic sea water with a specific gravity of 1.019 to a disk of nanochloropus green plankton.
Lift and carefully swirl the dish every half hour. Pour the culture into a clean 4-pint plastic bottle after a two hour period.
Push one end of a 1.5-foot long piece of air line tubing into a wooden air diffuser. Push the opposite end of the air line tubing into the exhaust nipple of a vibrator pump and place the wooden diffuser into the bottle.
Shake well and then add 20 drops of Micro Algae Grow to the 4-pint plastic bottle.
Place the 4-pint plastic bottle on a shelf in a room that receives sunlight.
Fill up to 3/4 of five, 4-pint bottles with synthetic sea water.
Add a wooden diffuser that has been attached to a vibrator pump to each of the additional bottles.
Monitor the color of the water in the original bottle. At a point that it turns dark green, pour a quarter into each of the four new bottles.
Refill the original bottle with synthetic sea water with a specific gravity of 1.019
Add a small quantity of synthetic sea water to a new disk of nanochloropus green plankton and begin the process once again.
Pour a quantity of green water from one of the four bottles into the crustacean and zooplankton cultures, until the water takes on a light green tinge. Add additional green water, as soon as the color in the zooplankton containers disappears.