Brine Shrimp

[nico88uk]

Hi all, i've purchased some live brine shrimp to feed to my fish from my lfs, the shrimp are in a little plastic bag with some goo inside, i asked the person at the lfs if i need to do anything before i put them in and she said to just dunk it all in but thought i better check first.
Cheers.

 

[Ludwig Venter]

Hi all, i've purchased some live brine shrimp to feed to my fish from my lfs, the shrimp are in a little plastic bag with some goo inside, i asked the person at the lfs if i need to do anything before i put them in and she said to just dunk it all in but thought i better check first.
Cheers.

What I normally do, is to empty the shrimp in their own water into a glass container and then have a bright light on one side of the container.... The shrimp will accumulate in the lighted area, from where I syphon them with normal aeration tubing through a linen handkerchief into another container. From the handkerchief, I rinse them into the fishtank to feed the fish. The water in the receiving container is then poured back into the original glass container and the process repeated.

 

[Carlovel1]

I wouldn't recommend ducking it in. Im not sure but I think the water that comes with the shrimp is salt water not freshwater so I think it might mess around with the water stats.

 

[markandhisfish]

i just open the bag they are in , empty the whole thing into a net over the sink then rinse em through and put em in the tank .

 

[Ashley1991]

you could also empty them in there own container get a tea spoon and catch them on the end hardly any of the nasty water gets on the spoon so you can just throw them in

ash

 

[Verminator89]

Ash do you seriously do this? You gotta get a little water strainer and save yourself some seriously tedious work. I'm going to try the spoon idea though, and see how long it takes to convince me its more worthwhile sticking the spoon into my eye

Each to their own though aye

 

[Miss Dib Dabs]

Personally I use a tea strainer and tip the bag over the strainer over the kitchen sink. Brine shrimp can then be put into the tank, although you might want to rinse over with fresh water from the tap first to rid them of left-over gunk etc. Takes a whole 30 seconds.
P.

 

[Ashley1991]

Ash do you seriously do this? You gotta get a little water strainer and save yourself some seriously tedious work. I'm going to try the spoon idea though, and see how long it takes to convince me its more worthwhile sticking the spoon into my eye

Each to their own though aye

i only have ever had 4 from my gf's tank and yes thats how we did it hey it worked so shush!

ash

 

[nico88uk]

Thanks for the replies, it sort of went horribly wrong though.... i dropped the bag in the sink after i opened it lol managed to salvage a few though .

 

[OldMan47]

It must be an American tool, but I simply use a brine shrimp net to net brine shrimp from a container. It is nothing more than a small net with a tight woven piece of netting that is fine enough that brine shrimps don't slip through it. It can be used directly to net out shrimp attracted to a light as LV suggested or can be used to dump the sample through as Markandhisfish suggested.