Brine Shrimp

[lilacamy931]

Hello All

What are people's views on brine shrimp and their nutritional value? An occassional treat or could be used as a staple in varying diet?

Would it also depend on the fish that you keep as to whether it is good for them? If wanted to load with veggies how would you go about this?

Many thanks, look forward to opinions and views

 

[helterskelter]

Newly hatched brine shrimp is a complete diet for for almost all freshwater fish.

When i was breeding fish regularly i was hatching million's of them every week and feed it twice a day to all fish.

The older the shrimp the less good they are as the shrimp is it self using up it's energy store.

 

[lilacamy931]

So investing in a hatchery that I have seen about (only seen glimpses so would need to look into more, any help appreciated) would be much better than the 99p bags that you can purchase at the store.

Good for fish like bettas and guppies to be specific? Obviously will feed a varied diet but good to know these are good/alright for them.

 

[helterskelter]

you can make a hatcher easily all you need is a pop bottle and aerate it from the bottom, after hatching which take 24 hours on average you turn off the aeration and allow to settle then syphon off the orange shrimp from the bottom and it will last 2-3 days.

Great for betta's and guppies and the fry grow like stink on it.

 

[Jonty]

From what I can see on the packets they have similar values (water content, protein content etc.) to bloodworm.

 

[Tolak]

Newly hatched brine shrimp is an excellent food for fry & most smaller fish. The one advantage to adult brine shrimp is not nutrition, it's roughage. This is especially important when conditioning breeders, as the high protein diet needed can at times lead to constipation. Vegetables help with this matter, but some species are mainly piscivorous, and will pass on veggies when regularly fed a more meaty diet.

 

[loraxchick]

im sticking that piece of advice in my hat Tolak...thinking of breeding soon. so thanks for that advice for conditioning...i see how advantageous that would be for the fish, i just never put it together!
cheers

 

[lilacamy931]

Brilliant thank you for advice on set ups, do and donts and what they are good for! Much clearer now

 

[BigC]

De capsulated brineshimps cysts are even better still
All the goodness of the unhatched shrimp with no nutritional value exausted during hatching
Heres my thread on how to do it
[URL="http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=280661"]http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=280661[/URL]
ATB
BigC

 

[lilacamy931]

Just had a read through, that is really interesting and informative, thank you BigC! Going to definately look into doing this, need some normal bleach and vinegar first, and of course eggs!

 

[lilacamy931]

Is it even worth getting a:

NT Labs Fry Care Brine Shrimp Hatcher Kit?

The set up in the instructions look real simple, are both just as good as each other?

 

[BigC]

IMHO no it's going to an expense that's not really needed, purely for asthetics. You'll end up tossing it to one side eventually.
A simple 500ml or 2ltr pop bottle is all you need.
You can get a PoP Bottle Hatchery kit from a fellow killifish enthusiasts site
This includes eggs/cysts
http/www.ta-aquaculture.co.uk/
ATB
C

 

[lilacamy931]

Brillo! Thank you,