ADaM

Description

ADaM is short for "Aachener Daphnien-Medium" and is a easy to prepare, well-established medium for a variety of Daphnia and other limnic zooplankton species species. The following recipe is based on the original publication by Klüttgen et al., with a modified selenium content first mentioned in Ebert et al..

Recipe

To prepare ADaM, a high quality sea salt for scientific purposes is needed. Specifically, two sea salts have been frequently used in laboratories all over the world to prepare ADaM:

• Crystal Sea^® Bioassay Laboratory Formula (Marine Enterprises International; Baltimore, MD, USA)
• hw-Marinemix^® professional (Wiegandt; Krefeld, Germany)

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