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DT1003 |
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| Type Use: |
Saltwater |
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1 |
| Wt Each: |
6.00 |
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| Product Name: |
Phytoplankton 30oz
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| Category: |
Reef Nutrition, Live |
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DTs |
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Live phytoplankton is food for clams, soft corals, some stony corals, feather dusters, tunicates, sponges, many sand bed inhabitants, their larvae, and other zooplankton that are food for many stony corals.
Contains:
• Nannochloropsis & Chlorella
• N. oculata @ 2-3 microns
• N. salina @ 4-8 microns
• Chlorella @ 5-12 microns
DT's live marine phytoplankton is a unique concentrated live phytoplankton blend, which is cleaned to the point of being washed phytoplankton cells. Almost every trace of nutrients and metals from the culture media have been removed, without damage to the living cells.
Keep Refrigerated. DO NOT FREEZE
At least once a week, invert the bottle and shake vigorously until the phytoplankton is visibly off the bottom and back into suspension. Some of the phytoplankton will settle quickly, but does not need to be shaken more often that weekly for storage.
Short Description:
Virtually any kind of small particles and many chemical additives can cause a coral to react by expanding its polyps. Unfortunately, this phenomenon alone has influenced many hobbyists to feed to their corals products that provide no real benefit as coral food. It is almost impossible for hobbyists to determine the immediate and most long term effects to aquarium animals, due to any products that are added to the aquarium.
Phytolankton often causes coral polyps to extend, but it does not directly feed most stony corals. The benefit provided to stony corals by phytoplankton is to increase the amount of zooplankton available for the corals to feed on. Although copepods do not need to feed on live phytoplankton, the fats that they store are determined by the fats that they consume (in other words they are what they eat). Therefore, higher quality phytoplankton will produce more nutritious copepods.
For over 10 years, the various companies that are producing or repackaging phytoplankton based feeds have made strong claims of their effectiveness for feeding various captive reef inhabitants. Because they all claim to feed clams and clams are raised only on phytoplankton, clams were determined to be the best animal to use to test product nutrition. Overall, results showed that juvenile hard clams fed fresh cultures displayed the best growth and lowest mortality rates, followed by those fed the commercial diet DT's Live Marine Phytoplankton. |
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