Information from DT's plankton about their Premium Product Line

Live phytoplankton is an extremely important food for a great many animals that are maintained in reef aquariums.

DT’s Live Marine Phytoplankton is concentrated and cleaned to provide nutritious live phytoplankton without the contamination of excessive nutrients or metals from the culture media.

It is very rare for phytoplankton species to survive refrigerated storage. DT’s Plankton Farm only uses species that have been proven to survive refrigerated storage for the entire five month shelf life our “best if used by” date is based on.

Marine reef aquariums can be populated with a variety of phytoplankton feeding animals.

Although some of these animals may feed on preserved phytoplankton, some will reject dead phytoplankton or detritus as food and not consume it. Clams have been shown to reject nonliving partials, passing them instead as pseudo-feces.  Only live phytoplankton will be accepted by all phytoplankton feeding animals.

DT's Live Marine Phytoplankton – Reef Blend and Premium Reef Blend naturally provides needed nutrition for your reef inhabitants, through both direct and indirect feeding with a positive effect on water quality. It provides this nutrition without any additives or preservatives with a unique, concentrated, and cleaned live culture. The combined effects of DT's live Marine Phytoplankton have not been duplicated with preserved phytoplankton or any other product.

Aquarium hobbyists have relied on this product for years to provide high quality nutrition for clams, soft corals, feather dusters, tunicates, sponges, and many sand bed inhabitants, their larvae and other zooplankton that are food for stony corals.

DT’s Live Marine Phytoplankton – Premium Reef Blend

Premium reef blend contains Nannochloropsis oculata, Phaeodactylum tricornutum and Chlorella with a cell size of 2 – 20 microns.  Phaeodactylum tricornutum is a large and very nutritious diatom that makes Premium Reef blend an even more nutritious and accessible to some phytoplankton consuming animals.  One noticeable effect is an increase in the population of copepods and other small fauna in reef aquariums.

The primary benefit that the use of phytoplankton provides for stony corals is to increase both the population and nutritional value of zooplankton that corals prey on in the reef aquarium.   

For more information:

Food Production by Design

Part 1: Sandbeds

Part 2: Refugiums

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live phytoplankton products since 1996.