Brine Shrimp

rocknurworld2006 · Apr 30, 2008

what is the easy way of growing brine shrimp to larger??
what do you feed them etc and what wud i need?

beany_bot · Apr 30, 2008

Hmmm tricky - i wouldnt bother

rocknurworld2006 · Apr 30, 2008

not quite the answer i was looking for lol :crazy:

tangokitty · Apr 30, 2008

They are filter feeders and require tiny foods and take awhile to grow. You can buy foods for sea monkeys for them since that what the popular instant sea monkeys are. But in my opinion they die easily and need clean water with good movement.

rocknurworld2006 · Apr 30, 2008

its basically so i can feed bigger fish them ie tetras, adult angelfish.
as they dont see the baby brineshrimp

rocknurworld2006 · Apr 30, 2008

so if i hatched out sea monkeys and fed them with the sea monkey food u buy etc, can then i feed these to my fish or not??+ :crazy:

tangokitty · Apr 30, 2008

Do any of the local fish stores sell them live? When I had my Marine tank I use to just buy 3 portions of them and keep them in a 10 gallon tank with lots of circlation and feed them the same filter food as I feed my tube worms. They seemed to last about 2 weeks that way and I'd just scoop some up rinse them off and feed the tank. I didn't know How I could filter the water but I'm sure if I did they might have lasted longer.

rocknurworld2006 · Apr 30, 2008

tangokitty said:
Do any of the local fish stores sell them live? When I had my Marine tank I use to just buy 3 portions of them and keep them in a 10 gallon tank with lots of circlation and feed them the same filter food as I feed my tube worms. They seemed to last about 2 weeks that way and I'd just scoop some up rinse them off and feed the tank. I didn't know How I could filter the water but I'm sure if I did they might have lasted longer.

no fish shops sell live foods near me.

Evad · Apr 30, 2008

I used to raise my own brine shimp but unless you have a lot of time and patience on your hands its not worth it. Either get live brine shrimp from your LFS or buy frozen. I have raised fish on both live and frozen and haven't been able to see a difference in color, growth, etc.

tangokitty · Apr 30, 2008

I'm pretty sure they are not harmful to feed to your fish but you can always just buy the brine shrimp eggs at the fish store since they are far cheaper the Sea monkey ones. And just buy the food for sea monkeys or a filter feeder type food.