Brett and Lacto levels

Ingredients
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Do the levels of yeast in these settled vials look low to you? Is this normal for brett and lacto to have this small amount of sediment in the vial?

I don’t recall brewers yeast in the vial looking like this.

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The sach strains have close to 100 billion cells while the brett/lacto strains have 2-3 billion.

[quote]The single-strain Brettanomyces tubes and bacteria tubes that White Labs sells to homebrewers have far fewer cells than those from Wyeast, only 50– 80 million cells per milliliter in a 35 mL homebrew tube (1.8– 2.7 billion cells total);
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3

Yep, normal

4

Totally normal for White Labs.  That is why, when I can, use Wyeast brett and bacteria cultures to start with.  Simply more cells.