Live Phytoplankton - Six Species Blend

Phytoplankton is the basic building block of the ocean food chain. It feeds corals, clams, copepods and other filter feeders. Our live phytoplankton has great benefits for your reef tank, both for feeding your corals and copepods as well as adding biodiversity to your tank.

Our live phyto blend contains six strains of phytoplankton in order to provide balanced and well rounded nutrition for your tank’s inhabitants. Corals are like all other animals - they need a wide variety of minerals, vitamins, and fatty acids for optimal health. Simply feeding one or two species of phyto won’t provide the diversity of nutrients that our six species blend offers.

Our phytoplankton should be stored in the refrigerator and given a gentle shake every couple days. If stored like this, it should last 3-4 months.

Each bottle/jug from Dinkins Aquatic Gardens contains six species of phytoplankton:

Nannochloropsis
Tetraselmis
Pavlova
Isochrysis galbana
Thalassiosira weissflogii
Phaeodactylum tricornutum

Each phyto species is cultured separately and then combined upon bottling.

Dosing Size for Phyto

Dosing recommendation is 1 ml per gallon daily. We recommend buying enough Phyto (storing it in the fridge) for at least a month.