Brine Shrimp

[livebearer_breeder]

would any1 have a clue as to how i look after or raise etc, brine shrimp, cause i have absolutly no idea? any help would be greatly welcomed!

[Pegasus]

How many do you want he he..

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/grumpy ... shrimp.htm

Email me if you have probs

[Caryl]

I use a 1kg plastic peanut butter jar (after the peanut butter has been finished of course) :lol:

Drill a hole in the lid big enough for some airline tubing to fit through. My husband made a wire frame that fit around the neck of the jar then hooked over the side of the main tank so I didn't need a separate tank, it just floated in the main tank.

Thread the airline through the hole in the lid and add an airstone to one end and attach it to a small pump at the other. Half fill the jar with water and a bit of salt (am trying to remember how much I used, it is ages since I have hatched them) and add a blob of brine shrimp eggs (about 1 tsp if I remember right). Screw the lid on making sure the airstone is well down in the jar. Turn on the pump and leave it floating in the main tank until the eggs hatch (varies depending on temp).

To harvest, turn off the pump and wait for the water to settle then siphon the shrimp up with a turkey baster. You can see them shimmering in the water at mid level.

I would squirt them into a white hanky then give them a quick rinse in fresh water before feeding them to the fish.

[livebearer_breeder]

thanks that sounds way easier than the web site that pegasus suggested

[Pegasus]

thanks that sounds way easier than the web site that pegasus suggested

Ha ha... Well... You gave no indication of how many you wanted, but thanks for looking anyway

[Matt]

I asked at jansen's yesterday and they said to use a coke bottle and an airstone, but to use a straw over the airline tubing to hold the airstone at the bottom, which I thought was a very useful tip. I like your idea of the peanut butter container though Caryl as it sounds easier to harvest them than trying to get them out of the neck of a coke bottle .

I am going to have a go tonight and see how much mess I can make, hopefully I should have a batch of A. Cacatuoides which should be free swimming tomorrow night. I haven't seen them yet though so the female might just be having me on :roll:

[Caryl]

Those who use a coke bottle use the plastic ones and usually chop the narrow top off. My way doesn't feed masses of fish like pegasus' would be able to do.

[SnakesSkin]

I bought several 1 litre water carriers (Payless Plastics) and found a small tupperware container that fits the 4 1litre containers in snuggly. I leave the caps on, chop the bottoms off and invert them in my tupperware water bath. Fill them with tap water at 26°C, fill the tupperware container, add a small heater at 28°C. Next I add air pump, four lines connected to 4 glass pipettes (glass tube) and dropped to the bottom of each water carrier. The flow is controlled to turn the water over gently.

I add two tablespoons of sea salt, a cap full of BBS and my wifes bedside lamp (40watt).

Approximately 24 hours later I check their progress with a turkey baster. Suck the little critters up and you can see them swimming in the light. If all is well, I turn off the air, let them settle, siphon off the shrimp into a large wine glass which contains clean water. They settle quickly and I suck a portion with the baster and dangle it in the tank. BBS swim from the saline solution into the waiting freys mouths and later I remove the baster and empty its contents down the drain.

Most breeders suggest not to use air stones for raising BBS. I hope this helps.

And finally the wife pokes her head around the corner and says something like, "Is that my salad container ... my lamp!!!!!"