brine shrimp for freshwater fish food?

[finfayce]

hi
back in the day i raised angelfish. i grew live brine shrimp for them.
i don’t remember exactly the conditions for raising brine shrimp. also where should i get brine shrimp eggs?

 

[finfayce]

hi
back in the day i raised angelfish. i grew live brine shrimp for them.
i don’t remember exactly the conditions for raising brine shrimp. also where should i get brine shrimp eggs?

btw this time i don’t need brine shrimp to raise fry of any kind. i want to feed my freshwater darter fish.

 

[Colin_T]

You can buy brineshrimp eggs from any pet shop or online. They are available in a dry form, which has the brown cysts (eggs), and a decapsulated form (the egg shell has been removed). The decapsulated eggs cost more.

The dry eggs can be kept in a fridge/ freezer to extend their shelf life.

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The following link has information about hatching brineshrimp eggs, and growing green water. The brineshrimp can be kept and grown in sea water (salt water) and fed on yeast or single celled algae. There is info about culturing other foods too that can be fed to your fish.

Back to Basics when Breeding Fish

STARTING OUT Make sure you have a pair, (1 male + 1 female). There is nothing worse than spending your hard-earned dollars buying a couple of fish to try and breed and ending up with a pair of fish of the same sex. Let's face it, to reproduce fish you need a male and a female. Two males won't do...

www.fishforums.net

 

[finfayce]

You can buy brineshrimp eggs from any pet shop or online. They are available in a dry form, which has the brown cysts (eggs), and a decapsulated form (the egg shell has been removed). The decapsulated eggs cost more.

The dry eggs can be kept in a fridge/ freezer to extend their shelf life.

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The following link has information about hatching brineshrimp eggs, and growing green water. The brineshrimp can be kept and grown in sea water (salt water) and fed on yeast or single celled algae. There is info about culturing other foods too that can be fed to your fish.

Back to Basics when Breeding Fish

STARTING OUT Make sure you have a pair, (1 male + 1 female). There is nothing worse than spending your hard-earned dollars buying a couple of fish to try and breed and ending up with a pair of fish of the same sex. Let's face it, to reproduce fish you need a male and a female. Two males won't do...

www.fishforums.net

thanks Colin- you have been very helpful.

 

[finfayce]

thanks Colin- you have been very helpful.

ebay has descapulated brine shrimp eggs. it says - non hatching. so these are the ones that can be fed directly to the fish in dry form? i have 6 darters in 30 gallon tank. how much should i add at a time? and feed this daily?
right now they are eating San Francisco brand frozen brine shrimp. i’ve tried frozen mysis shrimp and dry foods from petco to previous blue spotted sunfish. they weren’t interested. i think feeding only one kind of food might not be a good idea? these are young darters and i would hope they could accept different varieties of food?

 

[Colin_T]

ebay has descapulated brine shrimp eggs. it says - non hatching. so these are the ones that can be fed directly to the fish in dry form?

Yes. Decapsulated eggs have had the shell removed and you are left with the nutrients. These can be fed directly to small fish or hatched in salt water.

You can offer the decapuslated eggs a couple of times a day but you want to offer a wide variety of food items so the fish learn to eat new things. They don't always eat something straight away but keep offering them and they usually take the foods after a while.

Most fish don't naturally take floating foods unless they are surface dwelling fish. They also don't take dry foods straight away because it is hard and feels unusual.

You can try raw or cooked prawn/ shrimp, fish, octopus, squid, mysis is good when they accept it. Daphnia is available in frozen and live forms and you can culture them at home quite easily. The same with rotifers. You might get mosquitoe larvae in buckets of water kept outside under a tree. These are normally eaten by any fish.

 

[finfayce]

Yes. Decapsulated eggs have had the shell removed and you are left with the nutrients. These can be fed directly to small fish or hatched in salt water.

You can offer the decapuslated eggs a couple of times a day but you want to offer a wide variety of food items so the fish learn to eat new things. They don't always eat something straight away but keep offering them and they usually take the foods after a while.

Most fish don't naturally take floating foods unless they are surface dwelling fish. They also don't take dry foods straight away because it is hard and feels unusual.

You can try raw or cooked prawn/ shrimp, fish, octopus, squid, mysis is good when they accept it. Daphnia is available in frozen and live forms and you can culture them at home quite easily. The same with rotifers. You might get mosquitoe larvae in buckets of water kept outside under a tree. These are normally eaten by any fish.

thank you again.