Re: High intensity lights - question

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• Subject: Re: High intensity lights - question
• From: wjhamlin at hydro_mb.ca (bill hamlin)
• Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 08:39:22 -0800

>From: sywang at whale_st.usm.edu (Shiao Y. Wang)
>Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 13:12:31 -0600 (CST)
>I'm trying to do something opposite of what we usually try to do - I'm
>trying to grow algae. I have a setup to grow phytoplankton (suspended algae
>essentially) to feed diaphnia and fairy shrimp. I'd like to have more intense
>lighting for the phytoplankton.


Is more intense light really needed to grow algae or just longer hours?

For my daphnia culture have a plastic garbage pail with a 100 W bulb mounted 
in the lid.  I fertilize with a little garden fertilizer and leave the light 
on all the time.  There is plenty of green algae growing on the sides and 
surface and lots of daphnia.

I would love to get the green water, suspended algae.  I guess I have to 
wait for spring to get a wild culture. 

Bill Hamlin, P.Eng.
                                                            
Power Resource Evaluation Engineer            
Manitoba Hydro                                          
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada                    
Personal homepage:     http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~hamlin/bill.html

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