Diatom culture

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Diatom culture

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This is the result of a two week culture of a sample taken from a stream. I used a commercial algae culturing solution in a 1L plastic bottle inoculated with a sample collected from a clump of hair algae found in the stream. I provided light and aeration which resulted in a dense culture of several species. 100x olympus S-plan Acromat. DIC flash 2 Frame focus stack.
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Post by Mitch640 »

Very nice. How long did it take to grow? I have seen these cultures listed and thought about it, but just haven't had the time. Do you have to feed it? :)

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Post by Linden.g »

I'm using the Micro Algae Grow solution from here

https://3kserver7.com/~frank/secure/agora.cgi?

It took two weeks from a natural stream sample as the inoculum

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