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Raise Brine Shrimp Indoors to Adults, easy and almost free
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- Опубліковано 2 січ 2013
- Hatching Brine Shrimp eggs? Just dumping the left over salt water, unhatched eggs and the last few shrimp? Here is a quick and easy way to raise those left over shrimp to adults using just a light source and some aeration and feeding spirulina powder. This is a collection of short videos spread over 6 weeks showing step by step how you too can be raising up your own adult brine shrimp for your fish. Come on, give it a try, its EASY!
Very interesting. I raised brine shrimp to adults back in the 70s and used plain Morton Salt (non-iodized) and used a cheap flotation hydrometer to get the right salinity. I fed them boiled egg yolks pressed through a sieve and it worked just fine. Now in my late 70s I've gone back to fishkeeping and am trying to learn the advances that have been made in the Hobby. I'll try it the way David outlines in this page, already have the GSL eggs and spirulina powder and am awaiting delivery of sea salt. Have bred Angels and Rams back in the 70s... I'm currently trying to breed Red Melon Discus and feed them as much live food as possible!
Good for you! I wish we had the same Marble angels today that we had back in the 70s. They just do not measure up now. I just do not want to do all the water changes to try discus. Have you tried doing earthworms for the discus? Easy to raise in a small space and the discus could eat them whole. Uncle Jims Worm Farm has great small earthworms.
"spirulina powder" Ah, so that's what he said. Thank you!
I've scraped the eggs that gather at the top of the hatching container and placed them into a separate container just to see and they are definitely not just empty shell casings. I've actually found that they continue to hatch over time. Had a container sitting with all these eggs for over two weeks now and they're still hatching. There is no aeration in this container and it's below 70°F.
Good to know. I always wondered and I think I'm going to try it out too
Yeah exactly. People and their assumptions of "empty egg shells" and fear of "foul water". LOL! inexperiences
Hey, that was helpful! I've been throwing the "slop" out after a run, but now, I'm gonna re-use it using your method! Thanks!
All great information, thank you so much! I figured there had to be a way to allow them to grow and get some reproduction going so you don't have to keep starting with purchased eggs. Quite an operation you have going there. Thumbs UP of course!
This is really fascinating. I'd never have guessed you could raise them this easily. I'll have to give it a shot! Nice video.
It definitely is! I thought just hatching baby brine shrimp would be enough for my fish, but the frozen shrimp is what they really go crazy over. I'm getting supplies today, thanks to your video. Appreciate it Dave!
I used to do this as well when I was breading Angelfish. The newly hatched eggs make perfect live food for angel fry they grow big fast feeding them brines.
Nice setup, David...I did something similar with my brine shrimp rearing efforts, I took a 10 gallon tank, added lift tubes in each corner to create a mild circular flow made from thin-walled clear PVC tubing that had a 90 degree bend at the top, and used kosher salt mixed with a teaspoon of Epsom salts and crushed coral in the bottom of the tank (about a handful). The water for growout was 40ppt of salt, so much more saline than regular saltwater. Kept it going for 6 months that way! Good Job!
I'll attempt to selectively breed them to live in freshwater, and then dry land. My great (x53) grandchild will give you an update 😜
That sounds awesome
I dont even remember what my comment was about.
You could just get fairy shrimp. They are basically freshwater brine shrimps.
How’s it going?
@@IdiotWithEducation xd
Great video Dave! I may just raise some up to feed my bettas some meager foods.I never gone past 3 days past hatching. This is a great video.
Spirulina is a type of algae. Extremely rich in nutritional components. Used as a supplement by many people. Not as expensive as chlorella algae but almost as good.
Glad I ran across this video. So simple!
Thanks for sharing. I am educating myself so I can make a hatchery, and also raise some. I have fry, and gobies. The fry need the baby shrimp, and the gobies need the adult, so this is great!!! Thanks
Very cool! I am trying to replicate this so I have brine shrimp for my pea puffers.
hey guys who ever stumbles upon this comment, this technique is 100%, i'm 2 weeks in and the brine shrimp are getting big 3-4mm. all i feed mine is ''artemia fluid'' by JBL, and use 12hrs light to save money 15w. i think the only thing is that dont overcrowd the tub with one small spoon of brine shrimp. feed 3/4 of the batch and raise 1/4
MUST READ MR. RAMSEY:
You mention your basement is cold thus stunting shrimp growth. I have ideas for you to run through cost-benefit analysis. For starters, consider placing the air pumps in a heated room that is upstairs and near a heat source, and then running the air line(s) to the basement tubs. I imagine all the air lines could be run together through the floor (shortest route) via an HVAC vent perhaps. Could go a bit further by braiding the length of the air lines together (like braided wire). The braiding will serve heat retention by eliminating surface area, and ensure the tubs will be the same temperature. Insulating the length of the braided air lines with pipe insulators will better conserve the heated air now being pumped through them. Or, leave the lines separate so each tub has different temperatures and thus different growth rates.Your tubs are now heated. The other idea would be to plumb a 1/4" hot water line into the hot water supply. A the end of this new hot water line, where your tubs will be, tree the line off so that each tub will have its own line. Complete by running each respective line inside and lengthwise along the bottom of its tub and capping off. Desired water temperature can be obtained by gently adjusting the amount of line submersion in each tub. However, each line could be looped back into the cold water supply as well. Using an old radiator from an old air conditioner, refrigerator, or similar in each tub in this loop system would be ideal further honoring your shrimp and fish. Considering you have electric near the tubs, the heating element from an old stove or dryer could be used in lieu of a hot water line. Using heating elements over hot water radiant heating is not as legendary and thus serves lesser achievement. If god-like shrimp mastery is sought, epic achievement can be had through the utilization of rabbits. That's right, rabbits, nature's fuzzy little furnaces. The basement floor area with a drain is perfect. Using free saw dust from your local mill as litter would be beneficial. Spread a one inch layer of sawdust on the floor, and sweep it up just before becoming saturated for an outside compost pile. Rabbits can also be trained to use litter boxes to keep things neater and more organized. Saw dust infused rabbit excrement would be an excellent compost for a vibrant garden and in turn creating feed for the rabbits. Organic Rabbit Compost Tea could be marketed to bring in steady revenue to cover start up cost before making potentially unlimited income. Being that a rabbit puts off 8-40 btu/hr you will need 100 six month old rabbits (to ensure sexual maturity) comprised of 2 males and 98 females. This will bring up the temp in the basement for optimal brine shrimp conditions during winter. Once set up, turn the lights low and loop Fly Me to The Moon by Sinatra. Being that rabbits have robust reproductive rates, 2 rabbits can easily turn into 1000 by year's end, so we'll base approximations from this fact. At the end of the first month you would have 750 rabbits. Such a historic endeavor requires a solid plan at this juncture. At the end of the first year as few as 50,000 rabbits can be had. If each rabbit were to be sold at $1, that would be $49,900 (minus the 100 starter rabbits). However, if these rabbits were kept another year for a larger investment return, one could expect to yield $250,000. This takes into account not every female rabbit will give birth every month and for litter mortality rate. Feeding a family of four one rabbit each per day would not affect this projected monetary figure. If not sold for $1 each, a high grade organic small dog food could be produced marketed. If 1 rabbit, at 1lb lean meat, were used per 40lb bag of dog food to comprise required protein content per serving (454g per bag = 15g/day for 30 days). If each bag sold for $30, projected annual profit would be approximately $1,500,000. But how in the world could 50,000 rabbits be housed in this operation? Funny you ask. If 8c.f. per rabbit is used, five tiers of stacked cages in ten 50ftx100ftx10ft pole barns all comprising just one acre is the answer. At 5000 fuzzy furnaces, the avg winter temp inside a northern operation would hover around a tolerable 40F. +20F if the pole barns are insulated. In a slightly larger pole barn a multi-tiered hydroponics system could be utilized feeding both the rabbits and your family in return. Your stellar self sustaining way of life can take you from frugal brine shrimp master to millionaire rabbit master. But why stop there. Spread your wings and fly, David Ramsey.
LOL! Are you totally insane or what?!
Lol I'm making a healthy living off it
Epic.
I have been wasting my life.
James Joyce
This is one of my favorite brine shrimp videos :) Ty for your details from start to finish! I love the idea and will so something similar with two spare 5 gallon tanks I have.
I have a couple of comments basically the same. I have an airline (no airstone, it clogs too quickly) for the containers inside the house. I don't use an airline outside. I let the breeze do the water movement, plus the containers are too far away to get air to them. An airline outdoors would most likely increase the growth and survival of the brine shrimp if you wanted to try it.
Thanks for the replies, but the container is capped and the water is not stirred by the breeze. Because I think uncapping enter insects or perhaps other organisms that may harm the artemia.
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I make my own every day. 6-8 teaspoons of salt to a gallon of water.
+David Ramsey Thank you for a very interesting and informational video, straight to the point and easy to understand! I have never been able to grow them that big, however I'm working on it. Do you have to add more salt water to the bucket when the water starts to evaporate? Or do you just add plain water to equalize the salt concentration?
+bobb9gt Only add plain water (dechlorinated). Problems getting the shrimp to grow outside are usually where you are not getting food to them. Either too much sun or too little and the algae does not grow. If you think that could be the problem, then give them some spirulina, pea powder, bread yeast for food. But only really small amounts or the water will get too polluted. Too much or too little food is usually the problem inside also.
you have them spawning and carrying eggs in there as well
I have a betta that wont eat anything but live food like mosquito larvae, this is a great inspiration thanks
Once again Dave-THANK YOU for taking the time to show us. I'll let you know how it goes in my fish room!
Hi Dave, I want to thank you for passing on your knowledge, I've watched several of your videos they are great.
I raise Killies and have no LFS that sells adult brine shrimp, I want them to help condition my breeders.
I was having difficulty getting the shrimp past the first week or so. I think the brand of spirulina I purchased may have been too large for the young shrimp after they absorbed the yolk sack. I purchased a liquid phyto plankton (not live) for feeding reef filter feeders that seemed to help get them past the first week and onto the spirulina. Also it took about 3 solid weeks to establish algae on the sides and bottom of the container, I think this really helps shrimp growth.
Just wanted to pass this info on to help others.
Mine will have females with egg clusters. I would assume the eggs eventually would get released but I don't know if they will then hatch or not, or how long it takes for those eggs to hatch.
Hi David - Thank You for sharing your way of growing Brine Shrimps.
I used to do it too - but my yeld was verry low. Out of plentifull of little brine shirmps after 48 hours I transwerred water without eggs (using big 200ml syringe) to bigger containet ant then changed 20% water every week. It took me always 4-5 weeks to grow them and out of full batch I usually eneded up with around 20-30 shrimp. It was pointles to me to grow them for more than a month just for one feeding. I kept mine in 3 liter jar - so maybe I didnt have enough water volume to grow them succesfully?
I feed them spirulina powder every 2 days and my jar was lod with lots of natural alge in it
Nice video mate :) Planning to cultivate some for seahorses's breeding lol, thanks for the valuable info. shared with us!
Thank you for the video. I am inspired to grow them myself. I love your narration BTW :)
Very classy setup.
and here i am watching this to see if i can grow shrimp to feed MYSELF and not FISH! hahahaha
ROFL nice one Kiki Bear
ChillWii , how do you know how they taste? So given that you know how they taste means you ate them right? I would say humans can be the nastiest things on earth. She was joking anyways ..
the fuck bitch
KiKi do you love me ? are you never ever ever going to leave from beside me ? and i need you..
@@kai1243 i do to
RIP uncountable shrimps. We will always remember you in our fishes tummy
thank you sir. your video is very useful armature fish breeders like me.....
awesome vid , i want to do this so bad
thanks for following up and showing time progression!
The water is green from algae growing. Algae grows using nutrients in the water and light. The light I use is just a regualr flourescent light that is turned on all the time and is within 6 inches of the water. David
there breeding in there in that last shot well done
sounds good now. The shrimp will tell you how you are doing in a few days.
Correction! David, you said, “ 3 days”, for maturing adults, I think you meant 3 weeks. Brine shrimp grow fast but not that fast. Still it looks like it is well worth the effort. Thanks.
He did say they mature in three weeks, several times
Take a shot eveytime he says "just a little bit of spiurlina"
Thanks! Very handy and simple way to do it.
i bought some shrimp to eat with shell still on. When I was shelling them, many of them had lots of eggs, some pink-orange and some had black spots - can I hatch any of them? if so how?
You can make up a new batch of water just like you would use to hatch brine shrimp and add that. Just be sure the temperature is the same or close. David
This is an excellent video and has been very helpful. Thank you for sharing.
have you ever tried to grow a larger shrimp for feed? like ghost shrimp or bait store type "crayfish"? would love to see a video about something like that
Thanks for the very good informational video.
I am using a very fine powdered spirulina. A little stirring with my finger or other object will mix it in the water. Even if you leave it floating, it will slowly get wet and get into the water column.
my brine shrimp don't seem to grow and die after only a few days. Any tips?
I need something to go if I am going to try and help. Look at my indoor brine shrimp video from about a month ago and see if that helps you along.
David Ramsey i
use saltwater? of not they die,use aeration? if not they die.and warmth will be 25-28 celcius
I don't do water changes, I start a new tub avery 3-5 weeks. Add spirulina directly. I just sprinkle the powder. Artificlal light inside. Flourescent light over the tub turned on all the time. 24 hours a day.
So by starting a new tub do you mean you throw your water out? Or do you syfin the brine out into another tub and add water? I’m trying to copy you.. I just wanted to make sure I understand the next step. Thank you.
@@glamwithafam8766 I start a brand new tub, from scratch. I do have a later video where I would take out about half to a gallon, filter out the brine shrimp and put them back in the tub and then dump the half to a gallon. Then do the slow daily refill until the container was 2/3 full. I would repeat the process. So it basically got a partial water change out every 3-4 weeks. I kept one going a year that way. At some point you will get the algae that sticks to everything. That is when I bleach and start over.
Love it ! Thank you for sharing some of your wisdom . Aloha and Mahalo
I add the left over brine shrimp water every day until I have 3-4" of water in the container. I never add tap water, it isn't salty and would kill the shimp.
SIMP
@@Silentjustin06 Thank you. Good info to see 2 kinds of phytoplankton that is actually small enough for the shrimp to eat.. Do you still keep a light on all the time with that?
@@djrramsey I usually do 12-16 hours on and 8-12 hours off. Almost like a normal day/night cycle. Sometimes I leave it on 24 hours a day if I'm being lazy but not often. I'm constantly culturing new phyto right now. I keep the brine tank and phyto culture on the same schedule. I've read constant light will crash the phytoplankton
So would I, but I would need a much bigger water container! David
Trying after seeing this video, hope I get it right... Thanks for sharing...
curious: can they crawl out of the water? I had a shrimp that decided to go on an adventure (not a brine shrimp)...
Aroop Roelofs I had a crayfish that climbed out of the tank, down my kitchen counter, across my living room, down a flight of stairs and ended up under my bathroom counter! I still couldn’t believe he was a live when I found him and in perfect condition except for some dog Hair and dust bunnies being stuck to him.
And no, these cannot crawl out of the water. They swim upside down.
They cannot. They're not actually a real brine shrimp, regardless of the name.
Looks doable. Thank you for the info.
Where do you get brine shrimp
where do you install the basketball court?
This is great. Can you make a video of your fishroom and some of the fish you are breeding. Thanks
+David Ramsey I've followed your guidelines and so far is third day and I do see less brine shrimp than what I initially put in, but my question is, on your video you mentioned "is 3 days later " you meant 3 weeks for all that algae on the bottomto generate plus the brine shrimp growth or 3 weeks and a half for that ? am confused
Yes it is 3 weeks later
David, Thank you for video. I will try do it on this way.
1st of all, a stable PH cycled salinity saltwater.
2nd, only top up evaporated with fresh water or top up additional saltwater as in the video.
3rd, food is quite a problem either it is too much or too little. Food need to be a very very small particles which is able to dissolved as bbs is considered tiny enough.
At the end of the day, it is not only the bbs that lives in the tank or bottle, we need to have good bacteria to clean up the water. When the water is clear, the bacteria is there assisting bbs. If the water is dirty or cloudy, it means the water unable to solve the food poisoning and watching bbs die in future as poison needs to take time to kill. Food Poison basically is the same food not able match with the water reaction.
Moving water with airstone is to get the food reachable and mixing the food, while intensity of the light is the activeness of the bbs, while adding freshwater algae (not the green freshwater) to collect the dust of the food that bbs like to scratch.
Try to maintain the first generation of bbs until giving birth or old, or probably you can see the largest size of bbs.
All true, well said. Thankfully, once it gets figured out most of it takes care of itself. Failure is a big part of the learning process.
@@GrowAndEatThis thanks you are welcome.
I dont get why people always say those cysts at the top are "Empty Egg Shells". LOL! Those are UNHATCHED cysts. Empty ones will fall bottom of tank if not bottle. Reason they STICK on top is because salt water has YET to be appropriately absorbed by those cysts. I have them too and by stirring, squirting down to the aeration, by the next day I wake up from sleep, those same cysts are gone leaving 1% from the 60% leftover stuck cyst and TONS of nauplii have hatched from it.
nice video! thanks for explaining how to raise them
New sub I liked your video :) Looks like a cool setup Thanks for sharing :)
Sir brine shrimp tank in my room..so need air pump for oxygen? I want to keep them as pets.
You can use Algae for oxygen and food
@@connorsams182 how to make algae?
I won honorable mention in the 4th grade science fair for the "Life Cycle of a Brine Shrimp" My set up was nothing like this.
David,
I see that in plastic container is a little bit green algae before you put nauplii inside.
Please let me know did you do it and, please, how you do feeding. I hear that you are talking about it aut I don't speak English very well yet and have a problem to understand everything correctly. I will really appreciate your answer.
Thanks for sharing
What temperature range can brine shrimp tolerate? What do you find to be the ideal temperature for them?
Javier Duenas I get the best hatch at 76F - 80F. They hatch in roughly 24 hours and not a lot left over unhatched eggs.
Hello I'm using another method of letting culture sunbathing. Grab a few hours of morning sun and very little afternoon sun, a shadow. The nauplii are 4 days old. I'm crumbling spirulina powder just like you said. Am I doing right now?
Thanks! Easy & (in retrospect) obvious... which means that naturally we didn't think of using a generic plastic tub. I was trying to overcomplicate it... left over brine shrimp from feedings and no heater/complicated filtration? THANKS!
These things just appeared in my amano shrimp nursery. Must have come in from the fresh Cornish seawater!
They're bloody massive as well!
Can a 'normal' house bulb be used?
Would they grow faster with warmer water?
If so the bulb will help grow the Algae & help keep the water warm, what you think?
incandescent bulb will work fine. Just be sure it does not get the water too hot. If it directly against a plastic container be sure it does not melt the plastic and cause a fire.
Dave, for those of us cheapskates without a florescent light - will an incandescent light work?
@@tago8039 Remember the old incandescent light for 5 gallon tanks. The single skinny screw in bulb? That was my favorite light for this until the fixture itself just rusted away. So yes, gives light and some heat.
@@djrramsey thanks Dave.
Motivating video. I've been buying frozen bs (and bs fed spirulina)
and though it's not really expensive, fresh adult spirulina fed shrimp are more nutritional I've heard.
I use regular salt and regular out of the tap fresh drinking water.
Wait so just regular salt and do you think Fiji water will work for the shrimp
@@miti13439 no... Dechlorinate tap water by leaving it out for 3 days or using a dechlorinator. And your best bet is to use salt water solution from a pet shop (inexpensive)
I use salt water and it worked perfectly for me
Hi David. Firstly, thanks so much for the video. Very informative.
I did a hatch, following instruction on egg package (O.S.I Brine Shrimp). I waited 24 hrs, used a tiny flashlight and after 20 mins I siphoned as you do. In my tub I have a gazillion shrimp swimming, but also see about 1/3 eggs lying on the bottom. Should I somehow remove these unhatched eggs? Its now been 48 hours and they are still on on bottom. Will this spoil my water if I leave them?
Thanks to you and anyone who can answer me.
These days, people use those strong Magnets
(Neodymium or something..) to attract out the shells.
Maybe the Hatched shells will spoil the water.. The others may not foul the brine. They are likely still dormant and alive.
I think as a kid I got the sea monkeys kit and I was pleased that they look like this and not like the picture (yes I know they are called brine shrimp)
Dave, awesome video! My local foster and smith salesman told me to use my aquarium water, vs tap water with salt added. What do you recommend?
How long can hatch brine shrimp live in the little container ?
we are getting ready o brew some brine shrimp eegs for our angelfish fry, and need to knowhow often do we need to make more ? Daily? Weekly? etc
Rob Taylor I start a fresh bottle of salt water for hatching brine shrimp eggs every day.
David Ramsey WOW, this is gonna get expensive
we just bought the 100%brine Shrimp and a tiny little vial was 6.99 for 6gm... is this normal?
Rob Taylor Search for it online. I buy it by the lb but you can find smaller qtys. MUCH cheaper online. I get better hatches with online eggs also.
Good video - I'm going to give this a try....
The shells can be collected with magnets
Hi. Great video.
Let me ask you about water/salt ratio.
Yo use same ratio to hatch as to grow?
Thanks
Same 4.6 oz per gallon of water. With evaporation it will get a little stronger until I add some water to bring the water level back up.
Very informative. ...just a little unclear about how you go from the little bit of water they where hatch in, to the 4 inches water in the tub.
Where did you get the spirulina powder.
u can get them on amazon or ebay or local food store. sometime walmart have them.
It is okay to add spyrulina directly? Artificial lighting and binding? You make partial changes? I apreciatte your attention, Felipe.
I never do water changes during the 3 weeks. I am just too lazy. Without adding nutrients the water is going to be all used up in 3 weeks or so. I just start a new tub. David
Will the adult brine shrimp keep breeding and how long will that tank last for without water change sir?
@@parfaitamour1304 I feed the shrimp so I don't know if the shrimp eggs will hatch and continue the cycle. Other people have told me yes. I do roughly a 1/2 water change every 2-3 months. I have kept one going over a year, still producing adult brine shrimp as long as new baby shrimp are added.
GrowAndEatThis they r so tiny, if you do water change then u have to get the net and take all the shrimp out and move them to a new tank sir?
You are making this way too complicated. To do a water change put a brine shrimp filter over the top of a container (I use a gallon jug). Scoop out water you want to change (I use a peanut butter jar). Slowly pour through the net. The shrimp are collected in the net to be returned to the original jar. Then repeat until you have removed the amount of water you want. To collect fewer shrimp, place a light at one end, wait a few minutes, and collect water from the opposite end.
Nice video. Do you do water change in the process of raising them? Thanks
I keep adding the left over brine shrimp hatching water so at some point I can water change out some of the older water. I will pour it through the brine shrimp net slowly so I can return the growing shrimp back to the tank to continue going. It will last about 6-8 weeks before it is time to 'retire' and start over. So it pays to have a couple going that are staggered a few weeks.
I am growing betta fry. Do u know how ling it takes until these brine shrimp take to rinse off in fresh water???????? Plz help soon or the betta fry wil die
Hi David! Your video is very impressive. I have a question please. Once you take the Brine Shrimp to the fresh water, what did you do with them after that? Are you gonna feed to fish or keep raising them in the fresh water?
Great video!
I have a question and I hope you don't think me ignorant. I remember when I was a kid we used to get sea monkeys which to my understanding was brine shrimp. I remember putting the brine shrimp in a 10 gallon tank. My question is if they are the same why do we have to hatch them in this manner.
You can hatch the brine shrimp any way that works for you. I need a lot of brine shrimp hatching every day so I use a concentrated method of hatching. Space requirements are minimized. It always bothered me about the shrimp that do not get use for food. They just go to waste. I do not like waste so I have come up with this method to capture the left over brine shrimp and raise them up for adult food.
Hi David great vids. I had follow your journey recently. I've started my own culture, but I'm having trouble to keep my bbs alive to adulthood. Been feeding them spirulina and sustain them with air pump. But around the 3-4th day they died. Any idea on how i can improve?
I recently had a new culture get started and dang if 3- 5 days they kept dying. Only thing I can figure out is the water was too cold. 66F. I added a heater and brought it up to 80F and they lived. Check your temps. Maybe that is what is off.
this is a dumb question what is spirulina mind my asking nice educational video by the way thank you
Hi David. Thanks for the great info! Do the brine shrimp reach adulthood about 3 weeks?
At that warmer temp, yes.
Daivd Ramsey I just hatch some brine shrimp using your method. I fed some to my baby African cichlid then I drain the remaining water to a 19 quart tub, I added one gallon of water then added another tablespoon of salt. Its been three days later and the shrimp are basically dead. I read the comments under this video and I seen 1/2 cup of salt. so do I need to sparkle some salt on the side of the tub like in the video and the water? Then add the baby brine shrimp to these water? I like the fact your using table salt instead of marine salt.
+Glenn King IF they are dead in 3 days they need food! try some powdered algae wafers if you have it. Or any of the other foods I talk about. Keep a light on all the time so they are up and swimming around. If the tub is inside then it needs an airline to keep it all moving. Otherwise the food just settles on the bottom and fouls the water, also killing the shrimp. Doing this is one of those things in life that is so hard until you figure out how it works for you. Then it is really easy.
Thank you.
a question i have, would one be able to connect a small water pump into your system shown here, have that water circulate as an aquaponic system allowing the water to stay clearer for longer?
do you think the brine shrimp would survive the suction of a small water pump?
I'm definitely trying this!! hey I subbed✌️🐟✌️
Do you think the shrimp are eating the algae you had when you put the babies in or do you think they are subsisting on that tiny sprinkle of spirulina?
I have started trying to grow them on a very small basis and I have failed miserably 6-7 times. They hatch, then die over a few days. I have light, salt, spirulina, switched to distilled water....no luck at all,. Can anyone help me trouble shoot?
distilled water will be a bad thing. pH problems and no other minerals in the water. For algae to grow you need some nitrogen and/or phosphates. If the shrimp are dying in a couple of days they are starving to death. I provide some of the initial nutrients by using the water the shrimp hatched out in. If you are starting with clean water add a small amount of fertilizer (liquid, powdered or bit of compost. Something to let the algae settle and grow. Try some baking yeast. That will hatch and move around. Something for the shrimp to chase.
Umm after they hatch and eat their yolk can i put them in a big bucket ouside with salt water?? and how do i maintain it if i put it outside do i add R/O water if salt water goes down?? and what do you feed it THANKS!!
I think you could just move a few of the adult brine shrimp to another container and avoid having to hatch new eggs. I've seen people use yeast dissolved in water to feed them.. it should work if you can't get spirulina powder. Just use a very small amount...
I hatch a lot of brine shrimp so I buy the big bags of road salt or pool salt.
Can I use a sponge filter and do a tiny water changes with same salt content for long term
Easy on the water flow on the filter or you will suck in the shrimp. But should work. The water change for sure.
Really helpful. Thanks