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Ivy Member
Posts : 43
Age : 45 Location : Texas Favorite Fish : Stingrays and skates
| Subject: Brine shrimp Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:47 am | |
| I am attempting to breed my own brine shrimp as food for my fish. I took one L of water and one teaspoon of eggs. I aerated it for one hour then used some aquarium salt. I aerated on and off for another 24 hours. One day later, I had about 10000 baby brine shrimp. I fed them a shrimp pellet, and let them be for the night. I got up this am and there are hardly any swimming shrimp left. I have directed a light toward the bottom, which I did this am. What am I doing wrong? Also, since the eggs can't be processed by my fish, how do I separate the live ones from the eggs. Thx | |
| | | Mostlycichlids Cichlid Specialist
Posts : 4566
Age : 44 Location : New Mexico USA Favorite Fish : Jaguar Cichlid
| Subject: Re: Brine shrimp Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:10 am | |
| They will usually only live 24 hours. Try siphoning them out wit a piece of airline tubing or a turkey baster. | |
| | | Ivy Member
Posts : 43
Age : 45 Location : Texas Favorite Fish : Stingrays and skates
| Subject: Re: Brine shrimp Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:28 pm | |
| Aren't Brine shrimp sea monkeys? Those live a long time | |
| | | Markm0723 Jack Dempsey Breeder
Posts : 382
Age : 64 Location : Mobile, AL Favorite Fish : Jack Dempsey
| Subject: Re: Brine shrimp Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:09 pm | |
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| | | saint_felony The Turtle Whisperer
Posts : 1930
| Subject: Re: Brine shrimp Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:42 pm | |
| Brine shrimp under the right conditions can live for a stupid long time. They just get big, for brine shrimp that is.
I've used the second page Mark linked before for brine shrimp, and it worked just fine. Also, for the super lazy I believe it's the San Francisco Bay brine shrimp people make a fairly decent sized brine shrimp grower/starter kit that I found really cheap at either a big pet store or a big box store.
So easy my 7 year old could manage it, grow them and dump them in for his fish. | |
| | | Ivy Member
Posts : 43
Age : 45 Location : Texas Favorite Fish : Stingrays and skates
| Subject: Re: Brine shrimp Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:33 am | |
| Thanks all. I'm gonna look that page over sometime this week:D Have a couple of big tests coming up, once they are done, I will get back to ya | |
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