Thank you Suzy, It's really good that you started this thread. I had been wanting to get more of this stuff ever since Andy's July visit. Please forgive me for any offence I caused you by stepping in. I'm just impatient and didn't want this to drop for lack of resources. Erik copied you his response to my first email, to let you know he had begun corresponding with me about the order. Did you not receive that email?
BTW, Erik says that Copepod production is not ready for market yet.
Jeff and everyone, It will be shipped Monday for 2-3 day delivery. I don't know which carrier. I've already paid for it. ($480 + 1/2 shipping) Erik's not making any money on this, just recouping a tiny bit of his start-up expense.
He feels that his product doesn't really compete with a product such as DT's because a different type of person with different needs (a clam lover for example) will use Phycopure rather than Velvet Green.
Also, I did not get the impression from Erik that he had decided to have Fish4U be his local distributor.
When I spoke with him on the phone yesterday(Wed.) I mentioned Richard Brown and his LFS distribution business, Corals & Clams. Erik was unaware of the local distributors and seemed to agree with me that it makes more sense for that kind of company, which already has all the contacts with all the LFS, to be a Phycopure distributor.
Though the Aquarium hobby is a portion of his business, Erik's bigger "fish" are companies that need algae grown for specific reasons, such as bio-pharmaceutical and nutrition. The day may come when anti-viral compounds are ingested by eating an algae wafer!
Many nutritional, food ingredient, and pharmaceutical components are already being produced by companies that culture and grow and/or harvest algae on a large scale.
Can you guess how the San Diego company,
Kelco, got it's name?
As for Suzy's question regarding Zooxanthellae Algae in Phycopure, Erik got it originally from some Atlantic Pocilipora coral (that's an SPS). He now cultures it without having to grow the coral.
Here's a bit of interesting info...Zooxanthellae Algae, the class of algae that grow in coral, seem to be almost as varied as their host coral. Different Z.A. even live in the same coral at different water depths. There are some Z.A. that tolerate or thrive in warmer water. Coral seem to have the ability to dispose of their original Z.A. in order to acquire this warmer water Z.A. Good news for those of us worried about global warming and coral bleaching.
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