Brine Shrimp Hatchery

[GP]

I was just wondering if I could buy the eggs and hatch them in a container, and not a filtered tank... What would I need apart from salt and the eggs and obviously water?

 

[StingrayKid]

Nothing really. They hatch and you feed em' to your fish, unless you want to keep them.

 

[GP]

Well that's kind of obvious.. but I would want to have them continuously breeding so I can feed them to my fish.

 

[Opcn]

Powdered milk and brewers yeast in very small quantities

 

[GP]

Powdered milk feeds them? How many hatch at once?

 

[Daveo]

how many eegs do you have

 

[CFC]

Breeding your own brineshrimp in any numbers to feed juvinile and adult fish is a difficult task that will require a filtered tank. Hatching the brineshrimp is very easy and the newly hatch larvea make great food for fry but it takes several weeks to grow the shrimp to a size suitable for larger fish, it is a easier and cheaper option to use frozen foods.

 

[GP]

Ok then, another question... How about ghost shrimp?