[TampaSnooker]

Hoping someone can save me going back through the thread:
When culturing skimmate, should the solution be kept in light or dark? Is aeration/circulation necessary?

I have to treat a skimmerless tank but have several other systems with skimmers that I can culture from. Unless there are other suggestions, I plan on collecting skimmate from other systems and adding dinos from the affected tank to the culture. I have not ID'd the species that we are fighting yet, but thought that if I added the species I want preyed upon, there is hope that there are predatory organisms in the skimmate and I would be able to monitor what grows in the culture. I can borrow a scope in a week or two to snoop around the culture to see what the dominant microbes are.