Excellent mix of diatoms that will replicate in your system and one of the most important tools you can use when fighting Dino’s - I actually dose this into newer set ups as it gets diatoms growing on the surfaces which in term out compete the other nuisance algae’s which are so much harder to deal with - then once a system is matured / stable you can back off adding silica and let the diatoms consume all the silica in the system - then they will quickly fade away - corals and filter feeders love this stone as well
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Rhodomonas lens for culturing
Rhodomonas lens for culturing
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Rhodomonas salina & Rhodomonas lens require overnight shipping and to have the culture running the day of arrival to get our 3 day guarantee. We recommend using Fritz F/2 two part to culture this strain.
Rhodomonas lens is an important strain of phytoplankton for the pigments the strain contains including phycoerythrin which is known to intensify the color of corals and fish when fed to rotifers, brine shrimp and pods.
We recommend a 6k light with blue and red spectrum lighting as supplemental. When Rhodomonas lens is not given proper nitrogen or in an environment that causes stress to the strain, this culture will change to a green phytoplankton at a rapid change. We have noticed this ourselves, we have had strains go from red to green within 48 hours. While the strain is still Rhodomonas lens, the green version of this strain is full of carbohydrates and isn't what we are looking for to enhance colors with phycoerythrin. Once Rhodomonas lens goes green it is extremely hard to get back to a red strain. We recommend keeping a bottle or two of this strain inside the fridge incase something happens. For best results we recommend growing 2-3 cultures.
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