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  • David

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    May 3, 2023 at 7:14 am

    Hi Iva,

    The agar is indeed very solid, but the main reason why I use 25g/L we use is to avoid leakage in the wheat bran an reduced dehydratation. When we tried 7 g (much cheaper) it did not go very well.