give me the best way to make brine shrimp and the easiet?
give me the best way to make brine shrimp and the easiet?
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give me the best way to make brine shrimp and the easiet?
go to your local pet store and buy brine shrimp eggs find a dark container add water salt and eggs probably 2 tablespoons of salt per cup of water then 1 tablespoon eggs stir it up and set it in a room temperature area check on them in a couple of days there you go
i keep fish reptiles etc and did the brine shrimp thing a couple of years ago but for what its worth frozen is just as good without the hassle
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Well, I don’t know what’s the best way, but we bought a Brine Shrimp Hatchery from petsmart. It’s just this black box with a see through container at the top. Add salt and the eggs (that it comes with or bought separately) and in about 20 hours little brine shrimp start to swim around at the top. Only thing is they start to die off pretty soon after that so if you’re looking for fresh live ones, gotta use them fast.
i keep fish reptiles etc and did the brine shrimp thing a couple of years ago but for what its worth frozen is just as good without the hassle
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You can purchase a brine shrimp hatchery at your LFS or I know Petsmart carries them. The brand name I use that works great is the Sanfrancisco Bay shrimpery. I think it was $10.00. It comes with 3 packets of dormant eggs mixed with salt but once you use thes you can purchase little tubes of eggs for $4.00 but you have to add the salt yourself. These tubes last for maybe 20 batches. With the initial packets all you have to do is empty one packet into the main container that is an opaque black box and add cold water, then stir for a minute and put on the lid. The lid has a hole in the top that the secondary container fits into. This secondary container is smaller than the first and is made of clear plastic and is cylindrical. This container you fill with cold water and place the cap on it which has a small hole in it and you place it upside down (cap down) into the hole in the first black container. Now you set it near a window or light source and wait for 18 to 40 hrs for the shrimp to hatch and swim up through the little hole in the lid into the secondary container. The reason that they do this is because they are attracted to the light. A benefit of this is that the freshwater that is in the clear container will rinse the shrimp free of salt as they swim into it, therefore making them ready to feed to fish without having to rinse them first. Once the it has been long enough and you can see the little brine shrimp swimming around in the container, you remove the container, take the lid off and pour the shrimp, water and all, into the tank that you are feeding. You may fill this back up with water and place back on the shrimpery to get more out of one packet of eggs as some will still be left in the bottom. You can do this a few times untill it seems there is nothing left, then you start over again with another packet or portion of eggs and salt if you buy the tube of eggs. Directions for using that method are somewhat different considering that you have to add your own salt and it reccommends using warm water instead of cold, but the directions come included so as long as you read them you’ll be fine. Another thing that you can do to extend the life of your brine shrimp is to provide some aeration. You can drill a hole into the lid of the Sanfrancisco Bay shrimpery pretty easily and insert an airline tube with a pump into it. This is probably the best thing to do though it isn’t really neccessary. I am currently hatching brine shrimp myself for my cichlid fry so this is all fresh on my mind. Hope this helps.
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small simple Air pump, tube of eggs from fish store, sea salt water and a window
Add water and salt to dissolve, pour in eggs turn on pump. You have brine shrimp.
That easy. If you decide to go the “seamonkey.com way, the same principal works with them.
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