Hatching brine shrimp

[Tempestuousfury]

Is hatching brine shrimp hard or time consuming? I looked at it in a book and it required and air pump, heater, water changes, etc.

 

[Mamaschild]

I have not done it....yet, but if you want total simplicity, go to your LFS or Walmart, and buy a hatchery. They are not really expensive, and from the directions on mine, very simple to use. And they come with some BS eggs

 

[Cian McLiam]

Here is my method as described in an earlier post,

Ken

The best way I have found is as follows:

Dump the brine shrimp hatching kits!
Clean a mineral water bottle
Add water from tank into bottle and the amount of BBS eggs needed
Add salt and stir until salt is dissolved fully.
Try desperately to get the eggs off whatever you used to stir
Put an airstone into the bottle
Sit bottle in tank
Wait 1-2 days
Pour contents of bottle through a stocking stolen from girlfreind
Rinse stocking under tap
Pour jerky little shrimps into tank
Watch em disappear

I call it the DCAATPSWPRPW method to help me remember each step.

Ken

 

[guppymonkey]

You could just get a sea monkey kit. They work fine and usually aren't that expensive. Also you can get packets of brine shrimp eggs with the sea salt solution they need to hatch. I found them at my pet store.

 

[rsz]

yes, you could just buy sachets of sea monkey eggs they're just brine shrimps



it's not just lfs's that sell them where i live though - toy shops do too

 

[yhbae]

I built one using 2L coke bottle and it took me about 15 mins even though I tried it for the first time...

1. Take some tap water (the water does not need to be de-chlororinated)
2. Turn on the valve to let ait bubble.
3. Put some aquarium salt (1/3 - 1/2 teaspoon works for me)
4. Put some baking soda (very little, at the tip of the teaspoon)
5. Put some eggs (about 1/4 of teaspoon seems good for me)
6. Wait for 2 days
7. Stop the airpump, and shine a lamp from the side. Let it sit for 10 mins or so.
8. Use a syringe to suck up the critters. Pour them on top of coffee filter.
9. When enough is collected, I simply "rinse" them in the tank. Lots and lots of little critters swiming in the tank. (You need to turn off any filters, except for sponge ones)
10. You can harvest once more on the next day before throwing away the mix and start from step 1.

This gives me supply of BBS two days out of every 3 days. When I get to the point where I need continuous supply, I guess I'll build another one...

Picture:

 

[sever]

http/www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod...=9&N=2004+62741

 

[Chris]

I use a 1 litre plastic coke bottle, an airline (with no airstone, the eggs stick to the bubbles and pop at the surface where they stick on the side and dry out), about four and a half teaspoons of aquarium salt and two pinches of eggs. 24 - 48 hours later-millions of baby brine shrimp. Coffee filter paper works really well at collecting them.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

I went to Petsmart and bought their kits. It's a black box with a circular incision (2-3" in diameter) and a small plastic container with a plastic lid with a hole in it. I put salt, water, and eggs in the black box, put the smaller container (full of tap water") upside down on top. In two days, the shrimp go through the hole and into the container. Feed and refill. It doesn't require anything else and it seems to be working (I can barely make out hundreds of the shrimp). Why do other methods require aeration. Is it for increased efficiency?

Also, if I wanted to raise the shrimp to adulthood, how would I go about doing that/

 

[Cian McLiam]

I had one of those kits too, it says on the packet that the salt in the large container doesnt mix with the water in the clear container, but I would be very wary of this and rinse them anyway. The kit is ok, but doesnt give a very good yield of shrimp, youwill notice a lot of the eggs ar still in the black container after 3 days. The aeration helps beacuse the water movement and extra O2 stimulates the eggs to hatch quicker than still water. I would also use a lamp above the hatchery to persuade the shrimp to come out intothe clear container. Make sure you wash the container well after each hatch too.

Ken

 

[dolphin]

How to hatch Brine Shrimp Eggs

Hatching Brine Shrimp

 

[Tempestuousfury]

I was unable to use a bubble stone b/f b/c I didn't have a valve that could spread out the air. Fortunately, I got two big air pumps w/ my 50 gallon and a few bubble stones, so that won't be a problem.

What do you think about me using the box, making an incision for the pipe to the bubble stone, bubble stone inside, and aquarium salt? I bought extra eggs so I don't have to worry about the salt not mixing.

 

[aaronc]

Hi Guys

Do they need light and heat? No where in my apartment where I can do it, other than in the cupboard under my tank

Aaron