freshwest Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 Anyone out there growing b/shrimp to adults ? There is some good info on the web showing different methods . Sounds to me to be an ideal live food for larger fish . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HummingBird Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 I don't know if adult brine shrimp have very much nutritional value. New borns are so good because they still have their egg sac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegasus Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 I don't know if adult brine shrimp have very much nutritional value A total misconception I have grown BS to over half an inch long. and at this stage they were producing their own young, so it all really depends on "what" you feed them regarding the "nutritional value". Bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freshwest Posted June 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 What type of food did you feed to grow them to that size Bill ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke* Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 I've just tried twice no luck they all died. And that was feeding liquifry as a first food too. Apparently bacteria is a big killer though so next time i will rinse them after hatching and see how i go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 I grew some to about half an inch feeding...Nothing. Just the ones that slipped through the brine shrimp net into the bucket(Coke bottle floating in a bucket with a heater, siphon water from bottle through net into the bucket) And they grew up to about half an inchish in around 2 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegasus Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 Freshwest asked: What type of food did you feed to grow them to that size Bill ? Have a look here.. it pretty much explains things. The difference with growing a few in a bucket and growing on a large scale is two different things. http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/man ... hrimp.html Bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiuh Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 can i ask does brineshrimp "grow out" at lower temperature? say 18deg? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 I have seen them grown out to a breeding population in an old plastic bath outside. just using seawater too. Maybe the evaporation kept the SG at the denser level for them. The only reason they finished doing it was that they wanted the bath for scalding a pig. DUH!!! :roll: They burnt the bottom out heating the water. Makes ya woner at some people sometime. That bath was on loan from me too, brassed me off. :evil: By the way, Lake Grassmere where your table-salt comes from, has a thriving breeding population. That lake must almost freeze in the winter, we did when we visited it at a FNZAS Conference at Blenheim a few years back. Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 I assure you lake Grassmere does not freeze Alan - but the wind chill factor does I gathered brine shrimp eggs from the salt ponds and just threw them in a plastic container of sea water. Like Ira, I never fed them, just topped up the container with fresh water to replace evaporation. They grew and had babies all by themselves for over 12 months before I moved the container outside and it split. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PENEJANE Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 I am curious about feeding brine shrimp to my guppies, fry and bumble bee gobys. Instead of making up a whole new tank (even if it is small) would it work if I was to just put a very very small pintch of it into the tank and let them hatch in there for the fish to feed off?? I could be asking for trouble with this but was curious. If I talk about setting up anything to grow something else apart from my fish that are in the tank I get growled at by the hubby lol so was curious if this would work ok or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 No, that won't work. Might work in a saltwater tank, but yours is freshwater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PENEJANE Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 kk thanks for that. I do have salt added to the tank to make it brackish but I guess its not enough. One of the links in the other brine shrimp threads had a really easy to understand and assemble method for hatching these fish and chips of the fish world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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