Green Water Culture recipe.

[Ballyhoo]

I was going to make a green water culture. After doing some reading I'm going to take some water from my tank that has an algae bloom and put it in a jar with an algae wafer and put it in the sunlight.

Will this work out ok? and does it need to be covered?

 

[RisiganL.]

Thats pretty much what I did. I put an algea wafer in some aquarium water and added a pinch or miracle-gro. I also added an aerator to the bottle I was using (2L). I had an algea bloom in about a week and it was really growing by week 2.

 

[jetajockey]

i never bother with aeration. If you are using already cloudy/greenish water from a tank it shouldn't take long to get going.

I used to keep mine covered with a small hole filled with filter floss to let some air in, but I found out that leaving the top off completely makes the culture go faster.

 

[bangme33]

also a gd 1 is tank water with a lettuce leaf in it and leave it on the window sill to grow culture

 

[oscardelahoya]

So do you just add the green water to say a 10 gallon tank or how do you go about that?

 

[OldMan47]

What you do with the green water depends a lot on why you are growing it. The only thing I have used it for is to feed a daphnia culture. To use it I add enough green water to visibly tint the daphnia culture a greenish color. That way the daphnia get enough to feed on.

 

[Ballyhoo]

What you do with the green water depends a lot on why you are growing it. The only thing I have used it for is to feed a daphnia culture. To use it I add enough green water to visibly tint the daphnia culture a greenish color. That way the daphnia get enough to feed on.

I'm growing it to feed small fry.

 

[oscardelahoya]

I'm starting up a mbuna tank and wanted to know in case some of them spawned so I could feed the babies once they hatched

 

[mellowvision]

commercial systems use aeration.

 

[oscardelahoya]

This might sound dumb but can someone go into more detail with this? Like how long you can keep the culture if it expires or post of a picture of theirs? I have a 2 liter bottle with the top cut off full of tap water and some crushed up lettuce leaves sitting by my window to get sun light. I also capped it off with some foil with holes punched in it for air.