Pictures of Algae as supplied by CSIRO in Australia. They provide pure samples and it's a much more significantly presented to the last liquid culture I received as a starter (in an empty coke bottle).
The box arrived
Including this warning
Inner Box
Packaging (cotton wool)
Packaging (foam beans, more cotton wool, each flask individually wrapped)
The flasks
65ml was added to 1000ml of media in each 2000ml flask.
The flasks were sealed with sterile cotton wool.
Each of the flasks and tubing were microwaved for 7 minutes with 1000ml of water in an enclosed container in an attempt to ensure that they were as sterile as possible.
A total of four containers have been used.
2 x 2000ml flasks. Two of these flasks contained FAF Micro Algae Grow at 0.4ml/1L, 65ml starter with 1000ml media added.
1 x 2000ml flask with a two part F/2 solution I have had for about 18 months, 65ml starter with 1000ml media added. This was added at 1ml each of parts A & B per 1L. I am unaware of the "brand" of this F/2, But I have approx 300ml of each of the 2 parts and wanted to see if it was still good.
1 x 250ml flask water was added that contained FAF Micro Algae Grow at 0.4ml/1L, 65ml starter with 65ml media added. This is the backup sample. It is being kept separately to the main cultures under a CF globe and has an air line bubbling in it.
After 4 days
The flasks look slightly less brown/golden than this image shows
After 3 days (1 day behind main culture)
The T-ISO actually looks slightly more brown than this image shows.
Two of the three 2000ml flask cultures look to be doing well, one does not seem to be going well.
The small flask is going ok, it was looking like the only one growing until today.
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