Nano silica and micro nutrients for Diatom Algae 9
Diatoms are perhaps the most useful of all algae. They are responsible for about 25% of the oxygen in the atmosphere and 50% of the food in the oceans.Diatoms are the natural source of food for fish in lakes and oceans.
However, they require silica to bloom, since they have a silica shell.
In nature dissolved silica is available but we have found that nano silica is also bioavailable and that diatoms consume it and bloom rapidly.
Diatoms can solve many problems of water pollution - eutrophication, fish kills, dead zones, red tides, etc.
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Tue July 27 2010 11:29:36 AM by Bhaskarmv
Diatom algae | nano silica | micro nutrients
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Nualgi sounds great !
Pretty interesting. hmmmm.
What is your source for nano-silca? We have a very large Frac sand processing factory and
open mine less than twenty miles from us. Do you think they would have any nano sized silica in
their wash water?
Respond to alanschaefer@att.net
Thank you
so far i know, rice husk ash has very high silica content. Is it good enough as nutrient for algae culture?
Bhani, I think you are right about the silica content of rice husks and straw. Besides burning to ash how else might one reduce the straw and husk material to its inorganic elements?
Would these materials be availible to te algae?
hi Alan, there is plenty of rice husk ash available with me.