Cultivation of spirulina

lamashree

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Greetings this Dipawali!
Would like to learn the process of cultivating spirulina at home. Any guidance would be highly appreciated.
With metta,
Lama Shree
 

Hello sir,
Spirulina can be cultivated like azola in cement basin 2-5 feet, plastic in lined pits so on.
for successful spirulina cultivation pH should be between 8-11 at this all the elements required will be made available,
Sodium Hydrogen carbonate NaHCO3 8g/ltr
Sea salt NaCl 5 g/ltr
Potassium Nitrate KNO3 2 g/ltr
Magnesium Sulphate MgSO4. 7 H2O 0.16 g/ltr
Ammonium Phosphate
(monobasic)
NH4PO4. 12 H2O 0.08 g/ltr
Urea CO(NH2)2 0.015 g/*ltr
Iron Sulphate FeSO4. 7H2O 0.005 g/ltr

basically spirulina consumes carbon dioxide ideal temperature for spirulina is 35-37 o Cand water level in tank must be 20 cm for further details please visit fallowing web
http://iimsam.org/images/IIMSAM-SpirulinaCultivationManual-2007.pdf
 
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