Awesome thanks! I screenshotted this for laterI got lots.
1). Culture at 1.022
2). 14 hours of light is perfect for a 7 day culture cycle, some people say 16 hours a day though.
3). I actually culture off hours, my lights kick on at midnight to 2pm, this regulates the water temp at night. I found that if they have light all day the temp gets too high (I'm using the Poseidon Reef Reactors so it is an LED strip wrapped around the glass so your mileage may vary).
4). Nanno is the easiest to culture, so start there. Tetra is easy too. Iso is the easiest to crash unless you ask @ros3to
5). F/2 medium varies, I've found the Mercer of Montana works the best from Amazon
6). Use a salt with lower calcium. I started my culturing with Reef Crystals since it was cheap, but it has high calcium which causes the phyto to fall out of suspension faster. It still works, just need to swirl phyto more frequent. I use the cheapest Aquaforest salt now since their Fowlr version is around 350 calcium and same price as reef crystals when on sale.
Let me know if you need more tips or want to buy some start up strains for culturing.
@ros3to did the bags help with culturing at all?
I have a supply closet next to my tank room so I'm planning on creating a fish area. My goal is to breed ghost shrimp, Molly's, and have a shelf dedicated to phyto