Benjamin Leong, Week 3, More Greens... and a Shock!
I spent the most part of this week conducting daily tests on my algae cultures just as I had done last week. Only this time, I had to carry out testing for six algae cultures as opposed to the three that I had last time around. This is because I managed to establish three Chollera algae cultures, which is part of my main project, of tracking the growth of two different kinds of algae being grown in three different kinds of media. These include water from a tank with catfish, or simply catfish water, wastewater from reverse osmosis, or RO reject for short, and a control solution. I must say, the Chollera cultures are looking a lot better (greener) compared to the first three Spirulina algae cultures that I set up! I did have to learn a new way of counting the Chollera cells as required of my cell count test, which gives an estimate of the concentration of cells within each algae culture, and figure out how much to dilute my Chollera test solutions in order to obta...