Greetings. I would like to introduce AlgaGen.

We are a marine products company that has developed a level of expertise in the production of microalgae and live feeds. Our experience ranges in scale from bench to 40 acres, and aquaculture projects ranging from abalone to shrimp.

Over the past years we have developed a product called PhycoPure which is an 8 species blend of microalgae with zooxanthellae, clades A and/or B. It is cultured in natural ocean water that has been ozonated, carbon filtered and uv sterilized. It is produced fresh weekly and contains no preservatives. In addition, we offer a variety of microalgae and rotifer starter cultures commonly used in aquaculture. We have recently begun to offer a decapsulated brine product (making the use of brine very clean and easy, an amazing product).

Our more recent focus has been in the collection, isolation, and production of traditional as well as new copepod species (both benthic harpacticoids and pelagic calanoids) for use in finned fish aquaculture.

All hype aside, if can be of use to the community and provide any useful information we would be happy to do so.

regards,
Erik Stenn
President
AlgaGen LLC

Welcome to sponsorship, look forward in trying your product.

me too.. looks like i dont have to go to my normal place anymore for decap brine shrimp eggs.. :)

i cant even say how exciting this partnership is... these products are SO useful. i think the biggest issue is that many people dont realize how important and helpful they really are..

Thanks. I think the site and concept are great.

Regarding decapsulated brine in general, I have seen people add a teaspoon to their tank..where the eggs are consumed by corals and the eggs that are not, hatch to feed fish. Others pour some into a cup and virtually watch the hatch. The important issue with decapsulating brine cysts is getting rid of any deletarious bacteria and fungus assopciated with the cyst wall, and the hatch rate is supposedly improved...They are stored in a concentrated brine solution so be aware of this when feeding directly to a tank, but they store for months in the refrig.

I'm really excited about this too. Thanks for sponsoring Talking Reef.

Thanks AlgaGen!! It's great to see you here! These products are really exciting.

Soooo....the big question....do you offer your products to Europe?!:lol:

AlgaGen,

Great to see you here. I'm looking forward to trying your products.

Where in FL are you located?

Christi,
Sorry for the delay...no not in Europe, yet but very open to it. Thanks for the support.

regards

Christi,
Sorry for the delay...no not in Europe, yet but very open to it. Thanks for the support.

regards
so you don't currently offer them in Europe, or just have sold any yet...
the questions i think Christi is after is "can" you ship your product to Europe.. :)

yep! Thanks Rob! :-)

Christi,

We can send product to you. It might make sense if you get some people together to place an order to lower the cost of shipping.

Okay! Cool! I'll check out with some people here if there are other's interested and i'll get back to you! Thanks! :-)

Hello Erik, I was just wondering about your decapsulated brine product. Is it up on the website? I can't find it?

Also, which starter culture would you recommend to start out with?

Congrats on becoming a sponsor!

Hello Erik, I was just wondering about your decapsulated brine product. Is it up on the website? I can't find it?

Also, which starter culture would you recommend to start out with?
check out this thread for the products
http://www.talkingreef.com/forums/showthread.php?t=597

Sorry...there is alot that is not on the website. We have been busy with expanding and product development and have not paid attention to the website. This will change very soon. Please don't hesitate to ask specific questions about the products.

We are expanding our collection of copepods, both calanoids(pelagic) and harpacticoids(benthic) and have recently added a decapsulated brine product.

What do you want the algae for? Nanno is popular but I like the T. iso (Tahitian isochrysis), because of its nutritional properties, and its ability to grow well at warm temps(18to 28C).

Thanks Erik for the info. I'll be patient...I know how much work it is to update a website! :-)

Algae? Well, after watching Rob's vidcast and seeing that it's not a big science to grow my own phytocultures, I'd like to get started with it in a few months. But, since I'm a newbie to phytocultures, I have no idea which of the strains would be a good one to start out with. I think I read on the website that it's not good to grow mixed cultures, because the "weed-like" algaes would take over. Is this right? or are there some mixes that do alright together?

Christi,

In general many species co-exist in nature but specific species will bloom to the point of preventing others from doing the same. The cultures will grow real well if kept as a monoculture. I have seen tanks with 2-3 species cultured at the same time, the cells are healthy but the densities are weak.

A tough species is Nannochloropsis and may be a good one to start with but a species such as T. iso is really nutritious, and not too difficult to raise. Many bivalve farms use this one. Pelagic copepods eat this one. It can be fed to rotifers, brine shrimp and will potentially boost thier nutrional value...

all the best
Erik

Great! Thanks so much Erik!! I really appreciate it!

Hey Rob - what are you using, by the way?

from AlgaGen?
nothing yet, but i do plan on trying the PhycoPure and the decap brine shrimp eggs.
once i get the time to place the order...lol

no...i meant what strain of algae are you culturing in your phytocultures?

sorry, i misunderstood,
i am culturing Nannochloropsis now.
and various rotifers. (separately of course)