Algae Research Supply

Algae Research Supply: Algae and Zooplankton Education Kit

$ 19.99 $ 25.99

Algae and zooplankton can be used to help teach many lessons from the Next Generation Science Standards.  We have designed this kit to be used as the basic equipment you will need to do hands-on work in:

• Photosynthesis
• Respiration
• Reproduction
• Populations and communities
• Experimental Design 
• Energy and matter transfer through systems
• many more...

Kit Contents: 

Each kit is a complete set that can be used for a single project or shared by multiple students.  The kits each contain:

• Algae culture salts (Used to prepare water for culturing algae)
• 0.5L kit contains salts to prepare 0.5L culture media
• 3.8L kit contains salts to prepare 3.8L culture media
• 18.9L kit contains salts to prepare 18.9L culture media
• Algae culture nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, vitamins, and trace metals)
• 0.5L kit contains nutrients to prepare 0.5L culture media
• 3.8L kit contains nutrients to prepare 3.8L culture media
• 18.9L kit contains nutrients to prepare 18.9L culture media
• Algae culture (Nannochloropsis)
• 0.5L kit contains 50mL of algae culture
• 3.8L kit contains 1.0L of algae culture
• 18.9L kit contains 3L of algae culture
• Secchi stick (used to estimate biomass)
• 0.5L kit contains 1x Secchi Stick
• 3.8L kit contains 10x Secchi Sticks
• 18.9L kit contains 30 x Secchi Sticks
• Zooplankton (Artemia salina), brine shrimp pouches (~50cysts per 500mL)
• 0.5L kit contains 1x pouch
• 3.8L kit contains 10x pouches
• 18.9L kit contains 40 x pouches

Pricing:

Teacher:  We have special pricing for our heroes, the teachers (our founder's wife is a teacher) who are buying for their classrooms. 

District:  If you are a district and can afford to pay list price, we would appreciate it.  It helps us to stay in business. 

Algae Research Supply: Algae Culture for Six Algae Strains for Classroom Investigations

$ 27.50

Algae Research Supply: Algae Culture Kit for Arthrospira platensis (spirulina)

$ 15.95 $ 32.99

Algae Culture Kit for Microalgae. We have perfected the method and supplies for anyone to grow an ecologically or industrially important strain of algae. It contains everything you need to grow a laboratory-grade culture at home or at your desk! It includes the following: (1) Instructions: information about the strain of algae, illustrated growing protocol, culture care lessons, lifecycle background of batch-culture cycles. (2) Culture flask: tissue culture flask (50 ml volume) with a breathable cap. (3) Culture inoculum: 1ml in a dense culture in a 1.5ml micro-centrifuge tube. (4) Nutrient Fertilizer: our nutrients are a modification of the media formula called f/2 (Guillard and Ryther 1962, Guillard 1975). It uses NaNO3 (sodium nitrate) and NaPO4 (sodium phosphate) as the nitrogen and phosphorus sources. (5) Culturing Salts: Add salts to a 500ml bottle of drinking water (water not included in the kit). Different strains of algae have a preference for their water quality. We have perfected the recipe and include a small bag of salt to make 500ml (1/2 liter) of media. The salts provide a needed carbon source as well as slow the growth of competitive algae strains (weeds). Great for science fair projects!

Algae Research Supply: Algae Culture Salts, Marine Algae

$ 3.50 $ 15.00

Algae Research Supply: Algae Harvesting Screen

$ 27.95

Algae Research Supply: Algae Research Kit: Culture and Supplies for a Science Project

$ 23.95

This is kit designed to give the student the tools to do a science project. It includes

1. Starter culture, 50ml concentrated algae (Nannochloropsis)
2. Culture Tubes, self standing, 50mL  x8 
3. Salts, (sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, and trace metal containing sodium chloride) four packs that make 500mL each
4. Instructions for cultivation
5. Pipetter, polypropylene, graduated with 3ml capacity.

This kit is good for two groups where an n=4 is used: one treatment and one control.  Lots of folks use this for science fair projects.   Sometimes they also get some extra culture Nannochloropsis) if they are short on time and want to explore different ways to KILL algae.  This is a good kit to start out with if you are curious about algae experiments. 

Algae Research Supply: Spirulina Farming Kit

$ 79.99

Universal Brine Shrimp Refill Kit: Brainy Briny Algae and Brine Shrimp Refill

$ 8.99

We think that this kit is probably the coolest thing since the moon landing.  We have made and remade, tested, retested and reformulated everything... fifteen times (not kidding).  You can use this with our culture flasks or any other water holding container you can find. 

The kit is designed to use a 500mL bottle of drinking water.   You can grow the algae in the bottle, or use a separate container.  

 Each one of these kits includes:

• Salts
• Algae culture
• Algae nutrients
• Brine shrimp

Start the algae culture first and let it establish itself in the culture vessel. After a few days the culture will look more green, then add in the brine shrimp cysts. In a couple days they will hatch. The algae and Brainy Briny's can live for years without feeding if the light and temperature conditions are good.