Reef Alchemy Culture Kit

Description

The Reef Alchemy Starter Kit is a complete, lab-inspired system designed to help reefkeepers cultivate live microfoods at home with reliability and precision. Whether you’re producing phytoplankton to support coral health, or enriching live zooplankton for larval rearing or nutrient export, this kit provides the tools and starting cultures to do it right.

Kit Contents

Everything included has been selected for function, durability, and compatibility with a controlled, small-scale marine culture environment:

• 4.5L clear culture vessel – wide-mouth jar with stable base for easy observation and cleaning
• Air pump – 2.5W twin-outlet (3 L/min total output), suitable for continuous low-pressure aeration
• Inline valve – for precise control of airflow
• Check valve – protects pump from backflow
• Flexible airline tubing – cut-to-fit
• Suction clip – secures line within the culture jar
• Syringe (10 ml) – for measured nutrient dosing
• 2 pipettes – ideal for sampling or target feeding

Select Your Culture Type
Each version of the kit includes the above hardware, plus one of the following Reef Alchemy starter culture packs:

Rotifer Kit

• 250 ml Brachionus plicatilis live rotifer culture
• 500 ml Nannochloropsis (live microalgae feed)

Copepod Kit

• 250 ml mixed copepods (Tisbe & Apocyclops)
• 500 ml Nannochloropsis

Nannochloropsis Phytoplankton Kit

• 500 ml Nannochloropsis culture
• 250 ml Guillard’s f/2 enrichment medium

Tetraselmis Phytoplankton Kit

• 500 ml Tetraselmis culture
• 250 ml Guillard’s f/2 enrichment medium

Purpose-Built for Serious Reefkeepers

This isn’t a novelty kit. Reef Alchemy culture systems are designed around practical, tested methods used in professional aquaculture and education labs. Every component has been chosen to balance affordability with proper scientific control, making it ideal for hobbyists who want to grow high-quality live food — not just keep it alive.

Whether you’re culturing pods for fry, dosing phyto to boost biodiversity, or feeding filter feeders, this is your foundation.