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Isn't it grown in salt water... or at least very saline water??

brackish i believe. very alkaline and "hard" water, yes.

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Humm... so some of those people with bore water could maybe look at it... especially those with "heated" bore water??

the NT outfit uses bore water.

tonys water sounds like a candidate

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I'm not sure they freeze dry it, they don't do that here, to keep the best nutrious value and keep it somehow "natural process and produce" even with putting mineral fertilisers in the water.
I'll try to contact a farm here and see if I can send you some by mail if you can't get it, wouldn't be straight away but could be done.
Do they scan all the mail before getting it into your big island?
If so i'll have to put it in an essay tube in a metallic tube.
They say in the link you posted, that it can stay alive for a week in an essay tube.

I have 1-2" clear plastic tubing coming to mind. Or acrylic tubes if you want to fork out an arm and a leg....

I want to try it now too! I am going to dump a teaspoon of store bought stuff in some water and see what happens....

AQIS might complain about a tubeful of living green stuff coming in the post though...

hey guys, you know we have one of those on this forum

Hi Wade

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OOOPS!
Just that I had seeds coming in and fish eggs coming out, while I was downunder 4 years ago, thought it was not that bad and hard.
Hit me but don't break my AP setup, pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaase....

steve pictures the AQIS special operations group kicking over growbeds and hitting tanks with baseball bats...............ROFL.............and then food and fish hooking up with all the growbeds that they dump at the tip!

Was someone saying that the CSIRO had starter cultures here?

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I don't know, this is the search on CSIRO's site
http://www.csiro.au/csiro/search/CSIROa ... o&area=all

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LOL, thanx mum close to just doing the work for me...............

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I was looking up something else on their site when you mentioned it

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HOLY SHIT, $120 for a 20ml sample

http://www.marine.csiro.au/microalgae/supply.html

nice selection though http://www.marine.csiro.au/microalgae/s ... _Sep04.pdf

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do you have any friends at a university? most of them have marine or aquaculture units, "borrow" some

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