Author: ShopAlgae Team
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Algae Cell Walls: Why Chlorella Is Tough to Break
Chlorella has a rigid cell wall that resists digestion and grinding. What it is made of, why it matters for feeding and how cell-breaking works.
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Daphnia and Algae: Raising Live Food at Home
How to start and keep a Daphnia colony on green water: container, temperature, feeding, harvesting and what makes a colony crash.
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How to Harvest Algae From a Healthy Culture
The four ways to harvest microalgae at home or small scale, from straining to settling, with what suits each species and what to do with the result.
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Harvesting Spirulina When Feeding Live Food
How to strain Spirulina through a fine cloth, rinse it and feed it fresh to shrimp, Daphnia and snails, step by step.
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The Growth Phases of an Algae Culture
Every batch culture passes through lag, exponential, linear, stationary and decline phases. What each looks like and when to harvest or split.
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Green Water in Larval Rearing: What It Is and Why It’s Used
Green water is live microalgae added to larval tanks. What it does for fish larvae, how it is used in hatcheries and how hobbyists apply it to fry.
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Nutrients and Culture Media for Home Microalgae
What algae need to grow: nitrogen, phosphorus, trace minerals and carbon. Standard media, a simple home approach and how to spot a deficiency.
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Recirculating Aquaculture Systems and Algae: What to Know
How microalgae fit into recirculating aquaculture: nutrient removal, oxygen swings, where they help and where they cause trouble.
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Preventing Contamination in Home Algae Cultures
Most failed cultures are contaminated cultures. The sources, the warning signs and a short routine of clean habits that prevents nearly all of it.
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Seeing Microalgae Under a Microscope
What Chlorella and Spirulina look like at 100x to 400x, what you need to see them, and how to tell a healthy sample from a contaminated one.