I was just wondering if koi fry could eat brine shrimp eggs, and I’m not talking about the decapsulated kind. I know I can just get the decapsulated cysts, but I just wanted to know if the koi fry could ingest and digest the brine shrimp eggs, shell and all.
Thanks everyone! =)
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I have a clown, one firefish, one long nose hawkfish, a green mandarin, and a bicolor goby. all of them love to eat frozen mysid and brine shrimp and not much else. Of course the mandarin goes for the pods. But I am planing on being away for possibly up to two weeks. I don’t really have any options other than to get an automatic feeder for these guys, b/c I am new to the area and I don’t have anyone who could check up on them and feed them for me. Are there any options out there to have an automatic feeder to feed frozen foods? I would give them live food, but I have a 37 gal. eclipse and I am not sure how I could hook up something to that to give them a continuous supply of live food. The tank is completely covered with a hood. Could I just dump a bunch of pod and brine cysts in there to hatch while I am gone? That would ruin the water quality. Does anyone know of how I could pull a two-week vacation and still have live fish when I get back w/o having to give them unwantedfood
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I have tried several times to decapsulate my Brine shrimp cysts and when I put them to the hatching container most of them stuck to the upper part of the hatchery. Yielding low hatch result.
I have tried with less cyst,…it still happens. It seems to hatch better w/o decaps.
Any advice please? Thank you.
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hatching baby brine shrimp(bbs) easy, fast, and cheap. feel free to ask me questions
heres the materials
-glass soda bottle
-air tubing
-airstone
-air control valve or guages
-brine shrimp
-sea salt or non iodide
-and some water
*only hatch small batches so you dont waste*