I use this stuff periodically to keep the good bacteria up in my 150 gallon. Has a strong odor of eggs or sulfate so make sure you plan accordingly for a few hours when using.
Excellent quality phyto, very dark and quick shipping
Orders for live feeds placed before 8am MDT ship same day
Reef Legends
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 salina is our favorite phytoplankton strain, maybe its because we love looking at the red color the first few days or it may be the color enhancement you'll notice after feeding this strain to your reef, pods, rotifers or all combined.
Rhodomonas salina 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 salina 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 salina, 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 salina 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.
Love your products. The last order we got was not healthy.
Hey Jose,
Thanks for leaving a review, we did send out a replacment for this order. UPS delayed your package over the weekend. Rhodomonas is a tricky strain to ship. There is about a 65% survival rate when orders are shipped 2 day, when packages get delayed over the weekend, there is an automatic reshipment. We recommend next day air on this strain when you want to culture. Hopefully the replacement you got on order 1933 that was sent out arrived in better shape. If there is a concern always reach out, there is a 3 day guarantee on all cutlure bottles.
Skyler
Always communicate till the transaction is done and more . Much appreciate the knowledge
Culture crash almost immediately. Replacement was sent and customer service was amazing.
Hopefully the replacment arrived without an issue!
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I use this stuff periodically to keep the good bacteria up in my 150 gallon. Has a strong odor of eggs or sulfate so make sure you plan accordingly for a few hours when using.
Excellent phyto and pods and quick shipping.
First order and came in safe and well packaged!
Excellent quality phyto, very dark and quick shipping
After purchasing a beautiful Mandarin Dragonet, I was in search of a sustainable way of keeping him well-fed. Reaching out thru chat, I got a timely response from Skyler, who got me set up with a kit that has everything I needed to start culturing two different kinds of pods. When I received the order, my Tigriopus pods were mostly DOA. I informed Skyler right away, and he sent me replacements at no cost, which arrived, healthy, soon after. Skyler responds to my many questions via chat in a timely manner, and is always courteous and helpful. Just harvested my first batch of pods! Super cool! Great products and awesome customer service!
Very satisfied with the shipping and the quality of the elegance. Can’t wait to see and buy more from you guys. Thank you.
Tons and tons of pods that were happy, healthy, and great eaters! The rotifers took very well to my tank and my juvenile fish and corals love them!
As for the phytoplankton, it was perfect. Nice and dark, did it's job well, and keeps well in the fridge too!
Bottles were sturdy and clearly labeled.
Can't reccomend Reef Legends enough!
I’m on the 3rd generation from the Rhodomonas Salina culture from Reef Legends. I would not hesitate to buy again!
Very pleasant experience from the communication to the ordering, to the products in hand, five star service at its best. Additionally, some of the most generous bottles of pods I have ever seen, to say that they were stacked would be kind of an understatement. Definitely give them a shot and order today!!!!