r/algae
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Wondering what this is
I found it in October, this is a fairly stagnant part of a river under a bridge that connects to Lake Superior. They were all less than 2 inches long. They were on rocks near the shore in the shade.
u/urmomdotcom1823 — 8 days ago
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Algae pills for cholesterol?
I'm not sure if this is the right group, but here goes.
I've read that algae pills help lower cholesterol. With that said, can anyone here testify to that?
If so, which algae pills have you tried?
u/East_Sentence_4245 — 7 days ago
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Algae plate help!
Hi! My lab and I have been having a hard time growing algae on plates. Could people drop the protocols they have for their plate recipes? I wanna try something new to see if it works and to see what's wrong with ours! Below is ours:
Materials for making the tubes:
- 500mL flask
- Size up if volume of DI water is >200mL (there is a liquid autoclave step)
- Graduated cylinder
- Instant Ocean (0.0325g/mL)
- DI water
- Bacto Agar
- F/2 media, sterile and kept at 4ºC (1uL/1mL)
- Glass test tubes and metal lids, autoclaved
- 25mL glass serological pipette, autoclaved
Master-mix (12 tubes):
- 20mL saltwater per slant + 20mL extra (20 * (12+1) = 260mL)
- Use a 1L flask since total volume > 200mL
- 2% agar (260 * 0.02 = 5.2g)
- F/2 media (260mL = 260uL)
u/Best-Slide-4401 — 7 days ago