Setting up Brine Shrimp Tank..

[Sir Guppy]

I have Brine Shrimp eggs.
I have found a use for a 3 gallon aquarium. I have few filters I could use: A sponge filter, a power filter, a canister filter (jk, its broken anyway) , a possibility broken hydrometer, a freshwater LED light.
I am also a cheap stake.
What kind of salts could I use for this?
How would I maintain a Brine Shrimp tank?

 

[Colin_T]

You are better off using a large plastic storage container for brineshrimp. Add some plant fertiliser and put a light above it, let the water turn into green soup and then add the baby brineshrimp.

Air operated sponge filters are the only filter you can use on their tank. Anything more powerful will suck them into the filter and kill them. A lot of people won't even use a filter and just have an airline bubbling away slowly (no airstone) with a weight holding it on the bottom.

Most people that grow brineshrimp will start a new culture for each batch of nauplii. As the shrimp age and get used up, the container gets emptied, rinsed out and you start again. If you want to keep one culture going, then do a partial (50%) water change every week or two and gravel clean the bottom once in a while to remove rotting matter.

Rock salt or swimming pool salt is fine to use for them. Make the water about seawater strength or slightly less and go for it.

You can put a thin layer of beach sand or shells on the bottom to help stabilise the pH.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I would suggest your have a read here re BBS and adult brine. Many years ago I corresponded with the author on this topic and consider this information to be excellent. It was written for SW fish but most of it applies to FW as well. The big difference is that when feeding brine to SW fish the shrimp need to be gut loaded with HUFA supplements which the FW fish do not need added when feeding them.
https://reefs.com/magazine/aquarium...=The same is true of,these foods to your pets.

Basically, newly hatched BBS can not feed. This will not happen until they reach their first shedding and replacemt of their exoskeleton. So as soon as they hatch they are using up their nutritional value. As adults similar considerations apply. One normall needs to feed the shrimp well and then feed them soon after for their to be solid nutritional available to the fish.

Read the article, it explains it all in easy to understand English.