Algae Research Supply

Phytoplankton Cultures for Students, Teachers, Aquariums, Researchers, and Spirulina Growers

Phytoplankton for Everyone

Algae Research and Supply believes that a the tools to understand science are for everyone.

We are a small and dedicated group of nerds, teachers, and parents. The products that we are selling are well designed bring the richest possible educational and scientific benefit to the user. We believe that our products inspire curiosity about the world and they are down right cool!

Aquarium Reef Feed

Want to feed live algae to your coral, reef, or filter feeders? Click here and see how we can bring out the best color in your tank!

Education

Equipment and Projects for Researchers, Teachers, and Students

Spirulina Production

Equipment and supplies to grow algae for consistent production

Science Play!

We have made kits to play with real scientific equipment for your kids.

Science Projects for the Classroom

Easy to use classroom and Home-School projects to investigate photosynthesis, pH, spectrophotometry, energy transfer between trophic levels. We can even design low-cost kits for custom projects!

Classroom Algae Projects

Bring on the Pigments!

If your polyps need some pep, and your cnidarians have needs- FEED them what they would eat in nature- ALGAE! We have vivid RED, GOLDEN, and GREEN algae that will make your marine friend's tenticals tickle!

Aquarium Feeds

Ready made experiment kits

Do you already have a question to ask algae? We can send you a kit FAST to get you started. Grab hold of your scientific method and dive in to your project.

Experiment Kits

I think I need one of those....

We love to culture phytoplankton, but more importantly, we want you to do it too! We stock the best and most reliable equipment to culture algae. Some equipment did not exist, so we build them ourselves.

Culture Supplies

Best Sellers

Algae Research Supply's list of top best selling phytoplankton and algae cultures.

Algae Culture: Six Algae Strains- For classroom investigations $ 27.50

Algae Harvesting Screen $ 27.95

Algae Research and Supply: Algae Culture Kit, Arthrospira platensis (spirulina) from $ 15.95 $ 480.00

Algae Research and Supply: Algae Culture Kit, 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! View full product details

Algae Research Kit: Culture and Supplies a Science Projects $ 27.99

Algae Research Supply: Spirulina Farming Kit $ 79.99

Algae Research Supply: Spirulina Farming Kit

$ 79.99

Howdy Spirulina Farmers! Our research staff has been culturing algae since January of 2000, supported spirulina farmers on six of our seven continents on Earth, and had our cultures sent to space… three times (would have been four, except for a small rocket explosion.) We have helped tens of thousands of students, hundreds of schools and universities (including Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Texas A&M, UCSD, and more). Growing algae is a great platform for experimentation and harvesting biomass is super rewarding (we dare you not to say “Green Gold!” when you are done). To the farming kit-----> This kit has three parts: BIOLOGICAL (algae culture), CHEMICAL (nutrients), PHYCISAL (salts and water mixing). It includes easy to set up instructions and a booklet on algae culture. Better yet, we have a quick video series to answer questions (AlgaeResearchSupply.com). Our 5-gallon kit is the basis for the farming kit. Each 5-gallon salt and nutrient packets can yield around 20-40g of dry weight or around 500g wet weight (Approx. 1 lb of wet weight). Algae Research and Supply’s mission is to educate on aquatic environments. We want to help you grow algae! Supplies you will need: 10-gallon aquarium, small air pump, and a light source.

Call our 'Algae Hotline' for our scientists to help with your culturing projects.
Complete Farming Kit for growing Arthrospira (Spirulina): Spirulina culture (500mL), Bubble tube-12" (304 stainless steel), air hose (6'), Beaker (1-Liter), Culture Salts (2x5-gallon bags), Culture Nutrients (2x50mL), Harvesting Sieve (6-inch), Secchi Stick (density determination), instruction manual
Instructional videos on our website: AlgaeResearchSupply.com
Teachers! Have this product delivered to your school and we will include extra supplies to aid in teaching algae culture in your classroom! Please send a message to us letting us know what supplies would be helpful and we will send what we are able for FREE! (limited time offer)
Our mission is to increase the understanding of our aquatic environment through education and distribution of knowledge and materials to culture algae.

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