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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Boulet <stepheb at comm.mot.com>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [RML] astaxanthin
>I found one place that has the algae culture:
<http://www.botany.utexas.edu/infores/utex/>
>
>They have just about everything. The cost though is $15 for academics
>and government research, but $50 for everyone else. :(
>
>I guess that this algae does an OK job of competing with euglenia, since
>the Hawaiian firm Naturose cultures it outside
><http://www.cyanotech.com/algaepond.html>, and surely some kind of
>greenwater algae can spread by air. I would hate to order a $50 culture
>and have it be overrun by greenwater...
>
>If this algae is anywhere as easy to culture as greenwater, then it
>should be great for feeding to daphnia.
>
>-- Stephen
>
>
>Jim Capelle wrote:
>>
>> Try Aquaculture Supply at Dade City, FL E-Mail at ;
ASUSA at Aquaculture-Supply.com
>> They have a few starters in their catalog and thye have vast info on
where to get
>> something that they may not have. Frank Hoff is president and he has
done a lot
>> work in research in this field. JiM C.
>>
>> Stephen Boulet wrote:
>>
>> > Adrian Tappin wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Perhaps it would be better to feed the algae Haematococcus pluvialis
rather
>> > > than a concentrate?
>> >
>> > I was looking for a starter culture of Haematococcus pluvialis, but
with
>> > no luck (does anyone have any sources?; Carolina biological doesn't
have any).
>> >
>> > I was hoping that it can be raised like greenwater.
>> >
>> > Stephen
>> > --
>> >
>> > Stephen Boulet, Grayslake, IL, USA
>> > spboulet at enteract dot com
>