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Culturing Vessel Details
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| Temperature: |
73-79 indoor, 50-95 outdoor ° F
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| pH: |
8 usually… I don't routinely check after the cult
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| Specific Gravity: |
20 ppt salinity indo
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| >Vessel Description: |
Indoors, 1 gallon clear plastic jar with wide mouth, cap with hole in center, rigid airling tubing to bottom of jar connected to small air pump. Medium air bubbling.
Outdoors: 17 gallon black round tub outdoors on concrete patio, shaded from afternoon sun by a large sycamore tree. Bird netting secured over top to keep out birds, squirrels and small children (drowning hazard).
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| Lighting: |
Indoors: fluorescent Grow light, 5500 K . Outdoors: Natural sunlight, though mostly shaded
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| Lighting Schedule: |
Indoors: 14 day/ 10 night. Outdoors: as varied as the seasons
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| Methodologies |
| Feeding Tactics/Medium: |
Indoor: Algal food is 6 parts N-rich, 1 part Roti-Grow+, equal volume ChloramX. Also fed about 100 ml daily Oxyrrhis Marina, fed with same algal food. Sometimes fed with RGcomplete.
Outdoor: Aged saltwater in 17 gallon black round tub outdoors on concrete patio, layer of detritus on bottom from pollen, insects, small leaves, etc. that fell thru the bird netting. I noticed an occasional algal bloom. Once I dumped some wild algae in from my attempts at culturing. Otherwise no intentional feeding.
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| Split Cycle: |
Weekly, decanting jar to a clean jar, and discarding or feeding the remaining sediment, and daphnia to an aiptasia culture.
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| Split Yield: |
various and unknown. I've noticed cycles of increasing and decreasing populations of the daphnia in both cultures.
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| Number of Cultures: |
2
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| Number of Splits:< |
weekly with jar change
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| Density: |
unknown. I've noticed cycles of increasing and decreasing populations
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| Harvest Methodology: |
filter through a larger sized mesh seems to work, 200-300 microns. Backwash into clean dish.
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| Adjustments Made: |
see journal
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