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I was wondering if anyone knows whats the best way to culture brineshrimp?

I bought some liquidfry 1 hoping my cory eggs will hatch and i will be ready,on the pack it says you can use the liquidfry to culture baby brineshrimp but doesn't say how?

any ideas please ?
 
Just but some eggs off ebay and just hatch them and feed them to the fry with in 48 hours of hatching.

No point culturing them, when the eggs are so cheap.
 
as mentioned by helter, the easiest way to use brineshrimp for baby fish is to hatch them out from eggs. To grow up brineshrimp you need a good size container (200+ litres) filled with salt water. Then you either add some fertiliser and light and wait until the water goes green and soupy. Or you can add things like liquid fry, but you need a lot of it.

The birnehsrimp eggs can be hatched in a 1litre container with about 1/2litre of saltwater in. You only need a small amount (1/4 level teaspoon) of dry brineshrimp eggs for this amount of water. Sprinkle the eggs over the water and then add an airstone to the container. Allow it to bubble away for a day or so. When you see the water change from brown to orange, the eggs have hatched. Remove the airstone and wait 10minutes. the newly hatched brineshrimp (known as nauplii) will gather in a group. Use an eye dropper to suck them out and feed to the baby fish.

You can also get decapsulated brineshrimp eggs that have the shell removed. These are hatched in the same way but take less time and don't have shells to worry about, (baby fish can't eat the egg shell and sometimes choke if they swallow them).
 
Thanks guys :good:

I didnt realise you could buy the eggs,will have a look on ebay :good:
 
i believe if you buy the cysts that don't have a shell you can feed them directly, they won't be swimming around but the fish will most likely eat them anyway.

eggs are very easy to find on ebay or aquabid
 
some fish will eay the eggs as they are but some fry are difficult and need it moving to make then feed.

Cory's should eat it with out hatching (thats only with decapsulated)
 

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