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Hatching Baby brine Shrimp Q?
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rigid being any kind of strong durable pipe for the air line to hook onto and push throught the cap.
check this diagram its better:-
http://ng.netgate.net/~jlatham/Hatch.html
you could use paper towels but a net is best, as you can give the shrimp a quick rinse before placing them in the tank.
they wont die straight away, they are quite tuff, but do need salty water to survive a long length of time, hence, when they go in with your guppy, the water is freshwater, so they will last a few days.
they will last a few days in a separate container, they need an air pump though, slow flowing.
last but not least, they survive for 6-8 months in there ideal conditions.
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You can find rigid airline tubing at petsmart or petco or any other good LPS that has fish products. It is the tubing that was utilized for Under Gravel Filters. You will need normal flexible tubing to connect to the rigid tubing but the rigid is necessary due to the fact that you need to drill a hole through the cap and glue it in place so as not to leak water out of the container.
You could use paper towel, but I use a coffee filter inside a net instead.
You must realize however that brine shrimp are technically the celery of the fish world unless they are gut loaded with vitamins unless you feed the newly hatched brine shrimp to your fish while they still have their egg sack attached. They will utilize and loose this egg sack within 24 hours of hatching.
The container you plan on using is for creating one batch of brine shrimp and feeding the whole lot to your tank at one time. You could create multiple containers so you have food for feedings on several days and then just recycle the container for the next batch.
You could also lower the number of shrimp you are hatching in each batch if you don’t have a lot of fry.
One thing to remember with this procedure that you are doing is to ensure that you cover the container for about 10 minutes before draining. That way the brine shrimp will sink to the bottom of the container and it you will get concentrated napali when you start to drain.
I follow this procedure and use this setup for my saltwater tank as I use the napali to feed some of my corals and clown fish fry.
As far as staying alive, if you are wanting to raise them there are other articles out there for a longer solution, but the key to remember is that you are going to have to gut load them in your feedings so they have a nutritional value if you utilize them as food past 24 hours of their hatching.
Below is a search link on raising brine shrimp
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=raising+brine+shrimp&fr=yfp-t-501-s&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
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Tubing can be something left over from an air tube from your aquarium.
2. Paper towel, try a coffee filter they work better and less likely to break.
Yes
3. Preferable salt water (they are salt water shrimp) and yes they will die without water.
4. You can keep them in salt water to feed your fish Usually they are kept in the breeding container until you feed. Then removed.
5. That depends on where you are keeping them. If in a salt tank, they can live for a long while. In fresh or in the frig, they usually wont live longer than a week or so. All of this varies upon the types / quality of eggs food, temperatures etc.
Try looking at seamonkeys.com for care since this is what is sold as seamonkeys
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For the rigid tubing that just means strong thick tubing or wide tubing.
2. Yes you can use a paper towl or a coffee filter works wonders for me. Yes seperating the BBS from the water is usually the only way to get them out.
3. They won’t die right a sway with out water but they will soon, the purpose of this is to feed them all to your fish right away. Not to keep them. ( they only live to be 1-2 days old.)
4. If you do do this they will only live on average 1-2 days before they all die.
5. Like I said 1-2 days on average. I have had some live to be 4 days old. ( DONT FEED THEM TO THE FRY IF THEY ARENT ALIVE!! ITS NOT HEALTHY FOR THEM)
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