Thanks for the welcome Dave!!
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| We can supply clean liquid starters if you are interested.
In most cases starting a culture from a plate is the way to go. The idea behind using a plate is to pick single colonies to obtain as clean a culture as possible. Also storing algae plates/discs is easier. The down side of starting from a plate is that it can take days for the culture to "come-up" and if you select for single colonies it can take 1week or more.
If you use clean (no contamination minimal amounts of bacteria) starter from a test tube or other source you will be in slime very quickly...Something to think about. |
im not in a hurry
. now when you say it takes days for the culture to "come up" are you meaning from the disk? i personally would like to start with a liquid culture, but i have read alot about how much cleaner the culture is using a disc. without having the access to any lab equipment, is there any way to tell?
im the kind of person that likes to research like crazy first, and get it right the first time. im still a few weeks away from starting minimal. one thing i liked about the kit from Florida Farms is it comes with a book on culturing several different things. so that will give me something to read while im waiting on the cultures
. thanks again for the help!!
