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 salina for culturing
Rhodomonas salina for culturing
4.25 / 5.0
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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 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.
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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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