Photosynthesis and Respiration are easy to teach.
Grow and create your own algae beads using our amazing kits.
Complete Education Module: Lesson plans, projects, and experiments
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 to bring the richest possible educational and scientific benefit to the user. We believe that our products inspire curiosity about the world, but most importantly 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.
Let us help make your project
One-to-one help setting a project up? This form is intended to get information from you so that ARS can deliver a customized product to you so that you can teach an aquatic science project. ARS will reach back to you usually in 24 hours with suggestions.
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!
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
Look through our education section to get ideas on projects and some general aquatic science knowledge.
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.
Best Sellers
Algae Research Supply: Algae and Zooplankton Education Kit
$ 19.99 $ 25.99
Nannochloropsis is a useful genus of algae found all around the planet in marine and brackish environments. The cultivation of Nannochloropsis is relatively simple and produces beautiful green cultures. Artemia is a genus of aquatic crustaceans also known as brine shrimp. Baby brine shrimp can either hatch from a cyst or are born live. Its life cycle is affected by salinity, water temperature, and food availability. In the wild, Artemia feed on algae. Their cysts hatch with the highest food availability. The emerging brine shrimp feed on the abundant algae to reach maturity, a process that takes 2-3 weeks depending on food availability and temperature. The algae and brine shrimp can happily live together by helping each other out!
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...
-
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
- 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
- 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
- 0.5L kit contains 1x Secchi Stick
- 3.8L kit contains 10x Secchi Sticks
- 18.9L kit contains 30 x Secchi Sticks
(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
Algae Research Supply: Algae Beads
$ 24.95 $ 36.00
Want a simple way to demonstrate photosynthesis and respiration?
Use ALGAE!!!!
Algae Beads from Algae Research and Supply is a simple and easy way to perform experiments in the classroom. Our algae beads are made from Chlorella vulgaris (green freshwater algae common across the world and commonly consumed as a nutritional supplement). We concentrate the culture and add sodium alginate in the presence of calcium ions- and POOF- algae beads are born.
These simple and robust beads can be used repeatedly in experiments in the classroom. Store in the refrigerator or leave on your benchtop in light bright enough to read. You do not need to do anything to them for them to stay healthy for weeks.
Experiments: Dark and Light: Show if photosynthesis or respiration is taking place. Light color: Place colored screens to demonstrate that the color of light is important to photosynthesis (hint: green is not that useful to algae!) Light intensity: Place containers from close to far away from a light source (hint: the containers closest to the light source will change color the fastest). You can use our color-indicator that shows if photosynthesis is taking place (change in pH).
-
Algae Beads>200 beads
- Part number: ABCv-00200
- Count: >200 beads
- Suspended in freshwater
Indicator, Hydrocarbonate
- Part Number ABIN-00015
- Concentrated, 10x
- Thymol blue, cresol red in dilute ethanol and water
Algae Beads with Indicator - Ready to Go!
- Part Number: ABCi-00001
- Packaged in 1.7mL snap cap vials
- 5-beads per vial
- Packs of 10, 30, and 100
- Ready to use! Just pass them out!!!
Algae Research Supply: Algae Culture for Six Algae Strains for Classroom Investigations
$ 27.50
Algae survey kit includes 1.7mL or 50mL options for culture and a culture booklet: Spirulina (Arthrospira platensis) Nannochloropsis Porphyridium Chlorella vulgaris Isochrysis Tetraselmis Algae culturing...
View full product details
Algae Research Supply: Algae Culture Kit for Arthrospira platensis (spirulina)
$ 15.95 $ 32.99
About the Algae: Spirulina is the common name of the cyanobacteria Arthrospira plantensis. It is commonly found all around the world making it one of the rare endemic strains of the Earth. It is also an extremophile for pH, it does very well at pH ranges up to 10.5. Spirulina is commonly used as a food or nutraceutical for humans and animals. It contains the pigment phycocyanin which is a water soluble phycobilin or photosynthetic protein. It is shaped as a beautiful helical colony called a tricome.
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 is great for a science fair or even art projects!
-
Instructions
- Information about the strain of algae
- Culture care lessons
- Illustrated growing protocol
- Lifecycle background of batch-culture cycles
Culture flask
- Tissue culture flask
- (50 ml volume)
- Breathable cap
Culture inoculum
- 1ml in a dense culture in a 1.5ml microcentrifuge tube
Nutrient Fertilizer
- Modified media formula f/2 (Guillard and Ryther 1962, Guillard 1975).
Culturing Salts
- Small bag of salt to make 500ml (1/2 liter) of media
- Salts should be added to a 500ml bottle of drinking water (water not included in the kit)
Algae Research Supply: Algae Culture Salts, Marine Algae
$ 3.50 $ 15.00
This is salt for MARINE algae.
Our culture salts are a modification of the media from Aiba, S. & Ogawa, T. (1977) and Schlösser (1994). It uses NaNO3 (sodium nitrate) and NaPO4 (sodium phosphate) as the nitrogen and phosphorus sources to maintain a favorable environment to keep your spirulina happy and healthy!
This media kit includes only salts, if you need more than just culture salts, consider one of our many Culturing Kits which contains everything you need to grow a laboratory-grade culture at home or at your desk, or Complete Media Kit (salts + nutrients) to freshen up your algae's environment.
TO GROW ALGAE YOU WILL NEED: A Marine starting culture, chlorine-free water, a growing vessel (such as a 10-gallon fish tank), air supply (small air pump, not the band, but if you could get the band to sing to the culture- that would be amazing!).
-
Nutrient and Salt Media
- 500mL, 10x 500mL, 3.8L (1-gallon) and 19L (5-gallons) available
Algae Research Supply: Algae Research Kit: Culture and Supplies for a Science Project
$ 23.95
This is a good kit to start out with if you are curious about algae experiments, it is designed to give you everything you need for a science project either at home or in a classroom. This kit is good for two groups (n=4); one to be used as the experimental group and one to be used as the control group. Use this kit to explore many variables responsible for the growth (or death) of algae. Explore our lessons and experiments for inspiration for your experimentation, or create an experiment of your own!
-
Instructions
- Information about the strain of algae
- Culture care lessons
- Illustrated growing protocol
- Lifecycle background of batch-culture cycles
Starter Culture
- 50ml concentrated algae (Nannochloropsis)
Culturing Salts and Nutrients
- 4x Nutrients to make 500ml (1/2 liter) of media
- Should be added to a 500ml bottle of drinking water (water not included in the kit)
Equipment
- 8x standing culture flasks
- Pipetter, graduated with 3mL capacity
- Secchi Stick
Algae Research Supply: Spirulina Farming Kit
$ 79.99
Howdy Spirulina Farmers!
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). 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!)
This kit has three parts: BIOLOGICAL (algae culture), CHEMICAL (nutrients), PHYSICAL (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. Our 5-gallon kit is the basis for the farming kit. Algae Research and Supply’s mission is to educate on aquatic environments. We want to help you grow algae!
The only supplies you will need are a 10-gallon aquarium, a small air pump, and a light source.
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!
-
Instructions
- Information about the strain of algae
- Culture care lessons
- Illustrated growing protocol
- Lifecycle background of batch-culture cycles
Starter Culture
- 1L Spirulina Culture
Culturing Salts and Nutrients
- 2 bags of salt to make 5 gallons of media each
- 2 bag of salt to make 5-gallons of media each
Equipment
- Air hose 6-foot
- quick connector for air hose and bubble tube
- stainless steel bubble tube
- Secchi Stick
Algae Research Supply: Spirulina Harvesting Screen
$ 27.95
This is an Algae Research Supply Spirulina Harvesting screen. It has been specifically engineered to separate colonies of spirulina from water. Videos of this device...
View full product details
Brainy Briny Refill-1
$ 12.50
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...
View full product details
Brainy Briny Refill-10
$ 62.50
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...
View full product details
Brainy Briny Refill-30
$ 112.50
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...
View full product details
Brainy Briny's in a Beaker Bag: Algae and Brine Shrimp Growing Kit.
$ 24.95
This kit was designed in collaboration with the Foss Waterway Seaport for use as an educational product to teach:
- Algae culture
- Zooplankton culture
- Photosynthesis
- Respiration
- Energy exchange across trophic levels
- Population dynamics
But mainly, because it is really really cool!
-
Video:
