Anyone use the Brine Shrimp Hatchery kits?

[adamizy]

Just started using it since i found it lying around in my closet. Anyone have experience with one of these?

 

[KathyC]

It's been awhile since I have hatched any but the best advice I can give you is read the directions, and use fresh eggs, the older the eggs are the lower your hatch rate will be.

Don't hatch more than you can use in the first day of hatching as they become useless as food once they lose (absorb) their yolk sack (the only nutritional part of brine shrimp), and your fish will love them!

Folks who need to be raising brine to feed fry usually have 2 or 3 containers going at the same time so they always have freshly hatched brine.

Hope that helps some

 

[adamizy]

It's been awhile since I have hatched any but the best advice I can give you is read the directions, and use fresh eggs, the older the eggs are the lower your hatch rate will be.

Don't hatch more than you can use in the first day of hatching as they become useless as food once they lose (absorb) their yolk sack (the only nutritional part of brine shrimp), and your fish will love them!

Folks who need to be raising brine to feed fry usually have 2 or 3 containers going at the same time so they always have freshly hatched brine.

Hope that helps some

Hmm looks like i need to buy new packs, mine are old already.
my tank is 20G so im only using one.

 

[guarda]

+1 fresh eggs. Those sea monkey kits I used to have as a kid yielded something like .003%. You'd get like 5 shrimps

 

[Josh]

Keep the packs in the fridge.

 

[andylee]

I used to use them for my dwarf seahorses. What are you feeding?

 

[adamizy]

Keep the packs in the fridge.

They should recommend that as a tip on the box


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[adamizy]

I used to use them for my dwarf seahorses. What are you feeding?

Fish, corals, inverts.


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[adamizy]

how do i keep it at a constant temp?

 

[andylee]

Near a radiator? Small heater?

 

[adamizy]

Near a radiator? Small heater?

ill buy the smallest heater i can find. do u have pics of ur hatchery?

 

[andylee]

I haven't used it in years. I used to use them for an office tank with dwarf seahorses. It was a black cube with a hole on top where you could fit a clear jar. The shrimp are drawn to the light and wind up in the clear jar. I would add more eggs each day for a week or so so that there were freshly hatched shrimp each day.