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Old 10/11/2006, 12:00 AM
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Is anyone culturing phyto or roti's in plastic bags instead of 2L bottles??

I think I am going to try it. Nobody drinks pop much anymore, it seems. I am going to try using bags to run my phyo cultres. After a bit and with any success, I will try them on my rotifer cultures. In the past, collecting and keeping 2L pop bottles was a pain. I even tried the 10g tank method but it takes up way too much room!!

Anyone else culturing either one??
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Old 10/11/2006, 06:54 AM
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Mr James

the problem with the bags (to me)and the 2L bottles is the small size and its instability. I had a friend in the D.C. area doing breeding in a tiny beltway apartment and he got a ten gallon stand 3 tanks high for his culturing. Top tank was phyto and bottom ones rotis. Worked for him.
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Old 10/11/2006, 07:06 AM
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Bags are just small scale. Now the 10g tanks are a pain because you need backups for when you rotate your cultures. You can't keep it in the same vessel all the time. Bags are cheap and disposable, plus you can remove the airline, tie it up and put it in the fridge. I may do a few bags of each.

Where in Michigan?? Gaylord/Grylingarea?? Former Lansing resident here. If I could find a job back in Michigan, we'd move tomorrow!!!
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Old 10/11/2006, 08:05 AM
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I'm east of Gaylord, take 72 east to Curran and one mile south. I'm retired, only way I could afford to live here. Only jobs are service sector and a very few entrepreneurs. Plus some hard working farmers. The high gas prices knocked the tourist sector a big blow here this year.

I've had good luck with the same tanks, but do siphoning and water changes. Probably 20-30% per week, its not wasted, goes to the reef tanks.

Work IS scarce, but no better place to live and raise a family.
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Old 10/11/2006, 11:41 AM
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use, as suggested by someone else on the boards (forget his name), 1/2 gallon rubbermaid containers from Wal-Mart. They have a large screw on lid so when they need cleaning, you can get your whole hand inside and scrub them out. Only cost like $1.30 a piece I think here in PA. They are in the food storage aisle.
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