Phyto Station

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Easy design to construct if you need one.

For the frame you will need

5' piece of 1" PVC (thin wall works but is more difficult to cut with a PVC cutter - it crushes unless you have a very sharp cutter.

1 1" Cross
2 1" Tees
4 1" Elbows
4 1" Caps.


For the Top section

4 3" long pieces of PVC
4 Elbows - drill 1/4" holes in three for the airline tubing
1 Cross

For the Uprights

2 11" long pieces of PVC
2 Tees

Base

4 6" pieces of PVC
4 Caps (drill 1/4" hole in cap)




flexible airline tubing
rigid airline tubing
airline tee
airline valves
air pump
light holder and bulb

2 L bottles
 
@the floor guy wrote:
ok stupied question i could build that but how or what do u need to get it to start growing u just fill those bottles with salt water? said:
You can find the recipe on Marc's website, google, or even on Franks bottles. It's very easy.

Nice station Frank. Have you used it to grow out other foods for the tank, rotifiers, etc?
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I prefer the Aquatic Eco hatchery for Brine Shrimp

http://www.aquaticeco.com/subcategories/1384/Brine-Shrimp-Hatcher-Small/hatchery/0

and the 5 G bucket (batch method) for Rotifers

http://www.reed-mariculture.com/rotifer/small.asp

Both can be done in this type station, I just find the other methods are easier and I am incredibly lazy so easy is best.


Starter cultures can be aquired from another member, you can also use DTs, or get cultures from FAF (https://3kserver7.com/~frank/secure/agora.cgi) although I don't really care for the petri dish culture they send - a liquid culture is way better and for some algae types is the ONLY way to get started.


FAF also has a decent book on culturing phyto (check with our librarian, perhaps the club has one (or should acquire one) and they have f/2 food for the phyto (although Autumn's rant on "don't use Miracle Gro because it has copper in it" rings a little hollow when you check the ingredients list on their f/2 and it contains (surprise, surprise) copper).



This site has a decent discussion of growing phyto as well.

http://www.copepodgeek.com/index.php/handbooks/Nannochloropsis-culture-handbook.html
 
@chrisrush wrote:
Nice station Frank. said:
I bought this off this site so credit goes to whoever it was who built it first.

With the group purchase of materials, the PVC and rigid tubing was just under $10 per person.
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