Hatching Brine Shrimps

[LYNDYLOO]

Can anyone give me some tips on hatching San Fransico Brine Shrimps, need these for my Angel Fry.

Do they need to be keep at a certain Temp? Do they need the proper hatchery for them to hatch?

Any tips would be great.

Lynda

[Caryl]

I used a plastic 1kg empty peanut butter jar. Make a hole in the lid big enough to fit an airline tube through. Put a diffuser on the end of it. Make a wire handle around the neck of the jar so you can hang it over the edge of your main tank so extra heating not required. Half fill the jar with required salt mix and eggs, turn the pump on to aerate well and wait. When I wanted naupli, I just turned the air hose off, waited for it all to settle, then used a turkey baster to suck up the naupli which were hovering in the middle. These I squirted into a white hanky over another jar so I could then rinse then drop them into the fry tank by dipping the hanky in. The rest of the mixture from the batser got poured back into the jar and the pump turned back on.

[LYNDYLOO]

Thanks for that info Caryl, got it all set up the way you have suggested, so will see how it goes.

Lynda

[Aaron_fish_mad_guy]

Use a tablespoon of bicarb of soda in the water with the BS eggs -- this increases the hatch rate , position directly under the light, or set up an additional 24 hr bright as possible light , they need both light and high ph as well as right temp and oxygen. :roll: good luck!