Where can I purchase f/2 medium?

09 September 2014 1 3K Report

Hi i am growing algae at home personally and wonders where can i purchase f/2 medium but not through the usual official channels like fisher.

René Groben

You can also buy algal growth media through some culture collections like CCAP (http://www.ccap.ac.uk/media/list_of_media.htm) or NCMA (https://ncma.bigelow.org/products/growth-media/) if you don't want to / can´t use companies like Fisher.

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