How To Hatch Baby Brine Shrimps?

[sam9953]

I have recently got a packet of baby brine shrimp with me and i got it a few days ago but now with this pack i have got 2 things one are the eggs and the other are the salt but the salt is very less so i would like to know that what is the best procedure to follow so that i can hatch the baby brine shrimps and what kind of salt will be good for me to use after the salt which i have with me gets finished? Please tell me would table salt be good or sea salt would be better?

 

[OldMan47]

You can use plain table salt to hatch artemia cysts. Once you have used up whatever salt they gave you in your kit, just make the next batch using salt from the kitchen table.

 

[sam9953]

I am not sure that the salt which i am having is the sea or solar salt or is it the table salt so even if i use sea salt then would it make a difference?

 

[OldMan47]

Since we never try to raise the artemia to a ripe old age of several days, the specific salt that we use doesn't matter much.

 

[sam9953]

Since we never try to raise the artemia to a ripe old age of several days, the specific salt that we use doesn't matter much.

Ah ok and i would also like to know that these rine shrimps which i am growing are they good only for the adult fishes or will they be good enough for the small fishes and how much time will it take for the eggs to hatch out?

 

[OldMan47]

The best use that you can make of BBS is to feed it to very young fry.Most adult fish find the BBS so small that they are not much interested in them as food. Face it, how hard would you look for a single one of those non-pareils that they sprinkle on a cupcake? If you were interested in them at all, you would probably look for a candy that you could see easily instead of one that was vanishingly small. In large numbers, they can make a nice display but would you search for a single one anywhere? The fish are much the same. Food that is much smaller than what they usually would eat just isn't worth the effort to find it. For a tiny fry, on the other hand, a BBS looks like a meal.

 

[sam9953]

The best use that you can make of BBS is to feed it to very young fry.Most adult fish find the BBS so small that they are not much interested in them as food. Face it, how hard would you look for a single one of those non-pareils that they sprinkle on a cupcake? If you were interested in them at all, you would probably look for a candy that you could see easily instead of one that was vanishingly small. In large numbers, they can make a nice display but would you search for a single one anywhere? The fish are much the same. Food that is much smaller than what they usually would eat just isn't worth the effort to find it. For a tiny fry, on the other hand, a BBS looks like a meal.

Ok sir thanks a i get it and please tell me that is baking soda also important in this procedure.

 

[loachman]

Ok sir thanks a i get it and please tell me that is baking soda also important in this procedure.

Not typically needed. Only reason that I could think of would be if you have very acidic water and need to adjust the pH.

This has some good info. There are tons of webpages that give instructions for hatching BBS. Just about any that deals with raising fry will have info on it.

 

[sam9953]

Ok sir thanks a i get it and please tell me that is baking soda also important in this procedure.

Not typically needed. Only reason that I could think of would be if you have very acidic water and need to adjust the pH.

This has some good info. There are tons of webpages that give instructions for hatching BBS. Just about any that deals with raising fry will have info on it.

well i have seen many of those tutorials and in most i saw that people used baking soda.

 

[sam9953]

Well guys i have tried to search in my local supermarket but no where i could find non-iodized salt so please tell me will my brine shrimp grow well if i use the normal iodized salt?

 

[OldMan47]

You might try looking for "kosher" salt. It is not iodized.

 

[sam9953]

You might try looking for "kosher" salt. It is not iodized.

the problem is that in my country i dont know if kosher salt is available or not and in every store which i checked i was not able to find any non-iodized salt so will it be ok if i use use the iodized one?

 

[OldMan47]

The traces of iodine should not have time to affect the cysts before they hatch. They are only in the water for about 36 hours and the iodine concentration is very low.

 

[sam9953]

The traces of iodine should not have time to affect the cysts before they hatch. They are only in the water for about 36 hours and the iodine concentration is very low.

ok anyway i found non-iodized salt and now the problem i that as i have started the filter all of my BBS eggs start to stick at the top of the bottle and they are nomore in the water so i dont understand maybe my air pump is very fast.

 

[OldMan47]

Try removing the air stone and just leave the tubing to bubble through the container. You are trying to keep things moving by running an air supply, you are not trying to aerate the water. If you are getting too much air flow, try adding a valve to the air supply so that you can bleed some of the air off and only deliver as much as you need to keep things well stirred.