FS : Trigger Pods

[Guy]

Sending products out tomorrow morning through Canada Post.

Please make sure you've paid up before hand to receive your product.

There's still time to order and receive limited offer of free delivery

All products come in 8oz or 17.5 oz sizes.

- Live Rotifers
- Live Phytoplankton
- Live Trigger (Tigger) Pods

Cheers!

[Phormium]

PM sent

[Guy]

2/3 Local orders arrived the next day in the lower mainland and all were very happy with the contents and content with the packaging. The last package arrived after 3 days and had minimal die off, (~10 pods)

There's still an order of phytoplankton travelling to Ontario, that'll be interesting to follow up on to see how things did!

There's a person running the same tests I did long ago on some of the usual suspects of "Phyto Live" and is coming to the same conclusions that I did... Most commercial phyto isn't live, even if it says it is on the bottle. It doesn't reproduce and it's not viable. Seems it's treated with UV or sterilized in a way to prevent it from reproducing. They also often use a brown algae with the blend that will darken the colour and make it appear more dense, while at the same time, no doubt adding a different nutrient profile (that's good!)

Probably too much information, but each phytoplankton and diatom has a different density vs opacity. They differ greatly. All comes down to the physical size of the cell. Nannochloropsis for instance is 2-3 µm, Tetraselmis is 3.5-25 µm, Isochrysis 4 to 6 μm, Thalassiosira 4 to 32 µm, Synechococcus 0.8 to 1.5 µm.

What that means is that 1 million cells of the largest thalassiosira will appear much denser than 1 million cells of tiny nannochloropsis. I'm not sure what the competitions exact measurements of mixing are, but ours is a 50/50 split.

Reef Solutions currently only uses 2 Green Phytos, Nannochloropsis and Tetraselmis in our blend. As such, it won't be able to compete with the brown algae in terms of colour density.

BUT

Ours is alive. Like, actually alive.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

[Carson.]

Possible to purchase individual strains as opposed to a mix?

[Guy]

Originally all I sold was pure strains of both. Unfortunately I would hear feedback from retail that people thought the product wasn't as dense as the competition of blended product. So at this time, pure strains are not offered but if there's enough demand for pure strains again, I won't take the option off the table in the future.

It's nice sending direct to the end user though, I can harvest at the peak before it plateaus and don't have to worry about it aging on the shelf.