How can you grow Volvox algae at home (algae culture)?

I'm wondering if there's a way to keep a permanent culture of Volvox algae at home without too much in the way of special equipment or chemicals. I guess information on any fresh water algae would be helpful but those little communities of Volvox Asked by percival 58 months ago Similar questions: grow Volvox algae home culture Science > Plants.

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Best formula I don't know how much of a chemistry/biology major you have become. I found a recipe on the University of Texas website....www.bio.utexas.edu/research/u.... Theres two recipes here.

One for dextrose{sugar}. Most of the stuff looks like stuff in your kitchen. Other stuff can be easily purchased from different hobby or chemical stores.

Hope this helps .

Mild iron-rich fertilizer, a surface of duckweek, and no direct sunlight Volvox is an excellent live food for baby fishes. Here's a summary from one expertWide mouth broad 1-gallon glass jar or aquarium, keep it somewhere cool with indirect light. Add some chelated iron and a dash of aquarium plant fertiliser once every couple months.

Keep a nice layer of duckweek growing on top--volvox likes to be underneath. You can also raise tublifex worms at the bottom. Daphnia and cyclops may overtake your volvox during cetyian seasons, but they will come back.

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About how long would it take for mushrooms or algae to grow on a rock that doesn't have anything on it for saltwater.

What cellular carrier is found only in plants, algae, fungi, and some kinds of prokaryotes.

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