Nice video, and this is something i can truly say, i never saw in the others chanels i follow. The only problem i have with it, is that now you gave me a very good reason to set up another tank. My wife won't be happy hahahahah
Currently have a 2.5 gallon aquarium with a sponge filter held down by 3 rocks and a 5 watt water heater preset for 78-80 degrees. Your info has helped a lot. Today I went and got spurilina powder and it's honestly identical to the food that comes with sea monkey kits. I got into this by getting a bunch of sea monkey kits and have come to learn they are brine shrimp. I've read that sea monkeys are hybrids but I'm almost positive this info isn't correct. I'm pretty positive they are identical. My sea monkey kits have continuously failed and I learned why! My temp was at room temperature with stagnant water! Again your info has helped more then anything and I'm about to have my dream sea monkey tank! Only doing a 2.5 gallon because I'm not a fish guy. Just want some sea monkeys. Probably will feed these guys occasionally to my betas. Thank you so much! Please make more content!
When I’m hatching BB I put used salt water after sieve and feed into a shoebox size tote until it gets 3/4 full. There are always artemia surviving or getting through the sieve. In fact if you put a light on it they are drawn to the light in a corner you can get several more harvests from that. I also feed mine Spirulina powder but I premix some with water and feed with a dropper. I shake it up first. They actually don’t need much air, periodic once a day even scoop some water and let it fall back in. You can leave them for months without anything and they will still live. They are just healthier with some kind of aeration probably. I had an air tube in the corner with just a few bubbles coming up once in a while
Clicked on this video randomly while following my interest in sea monkeys. Blew my mind that you named the saltwater shop in my town. Nice to see a local on YT! Thanks for the information as well :)
I'm definitely going to have to do this I love your idea and thanks to L.R.Bretz for sharing your fishroom with us..... great content as always thanks for sharing and remember to keep on tankin fish fam 🤜 👍✌️
Good video; thank you. I was wondering how to grow them out. I started freezing the baby brine shrimp in mini ice cubes so they wouldn't just die and go to waste. I just ordered the spirulina powder before your video even ended!
@@fatmasglobal sponge filter... very few eggs and foods at first... the algae needs to grow on the glass... and the Nitrogen Cycle needs to grow bacteria to process the wastes... or you get cloudy stinky water and death. -Even though spirulina is much less dirty than yeast... it still decays and needs to be processed with the poop of the shrimp.
A thought: if you set a light at one side of your tank, they may all flock there so you can vacuum the mulm off of the bottom of the aquarium. If it's not too salty, you can then use that water, dilute it a bit, and water your plants. 🙂
Nice video. I actually started growing out my bbs again. This time I placed them in a fish bowl and placed it in a 10 gal. Then after I did this, I remembered your video. So I plan to empty the fish bowl in the tank sometime this week. Thanks for sharing this video.
Tip, when their water is crystal clear they have eaten all food, if water is ever cloudy don’t feed they haven’t finished food from before. That’s how they crash is over feeding. When you water change put the salt water you sucked out in a narrow but tall cup and what live shrimp are in there can be turkey basted off top &put back in. Love your video. I love watching them while I do dishes
Tip for European people who want to grow (and/or breed) artemia successfully: get the "Sel de Guerande" (from France), the coarse grey one (between 1,50 and 2 euros for 1 kilo, depending on which store you buy it
You've definitely inspired me to create my own brine shrimp culture. I was considering daphnia at first, but brine shrimp eggs seem way easier to find than daphnia. Plus I already have some aquarium salt laying around and an extra air pump. Thanks for the video, and I look forward to more in the future.
Roscle Hilltopple thank you for the positive comments, I appreciate them! Good luck and it takes patience to get the brine shrimp culture going but keep at it and you’ll nail it!
Rock salt works too , I used around 1 kg rock salt for 10 gallon tank (35 gm for 1 litre water). Haven't tested the salinity but its doing great. Brine shrimp easy to culture due to available eggs. Rock salt is very cheap compared to aquarium salt.
@@bipulshrestha1 I deleted my comment about only Marine salt, seeing people are doing Rock salt, as you say. Yes. -so cool! We can make an outdoor pond filled with Water softener salt, maybe the waste water, too (if you use a softener).. and have seasonal shrimp in your yard, forever!! If it dries up and gets cold, like in Utah... and then warms up and it rains... Eggs hatch, and you have your own salt lake of brine shrimp!! Exciting!!! (of course, use a non leaking pond liner.)
I been looking every where for someone to show me how to do grow out tank im new to all of this and em doing it for fun but nice for my goldfish thankyou for video from uk 😀at last
Great video thanks a lot for the tutorial, and thank you for letting Lucas do a tour of your fish room I got the link to your channel and subscribed from watching that video look forward to your new videos
Could you please let us know how you separate the adult brine shrimp from the BBS when you're looking to feed a fry grow out tank? I'm curious about that...
I've always wondered why people hassle with making new batches each day and basically loosing a ton of cash on this. You are the only one (so far that I've seen) to explain how. I had a tank in the basement to raise daphneas but it failed because of a cyclops "bloom" that killed em all it was a blood bath. Think I'm going to give brine shrimps a try in that very same tank. Tho I would like to see, basically the same video redone while you are filming the actual tank instead of your beautiful face 😜
Was there a population explosion after pushing all the eggs back into the tank? Great video I’m tempted just like everyone else nice job :) Also do you think it would work with just lighting from the room?
I had the desk lamp so i figured it wouldn’t hurt. I bet room lighting would work but brine shrimp are attracted to light FYI. I do have more babies so maybe an explosion happened 😉
How long does it take for them to grow to adults, i started a tank when i saw your video. They are growing you can see them a lot better now its been a little less than 2 weeks now and seems like theyre all still alive. You sir, are a good man lol
bambam_ dc it can take a month or two to get to full size. Once they’re full adults you’ll get offspring to keep the colony going. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
@@SCAquatics awesome thanks for the quick reply i thought i was doing something wrong since every where ive searched they say they grow fast. Not sure what secret formula they feed them with but mines didnt look like theirs lol Trying to grow these out to feed live foods to my killifish so they can spawn more
So cool, thanks for sharing. I am getting some baby koi hatched about two weeks ago from a friend and most have died due I believe to lack of brine, so I will be hatching my first brine this week just before they get to me and will try to raise some myself. Question do I have to heat the water to get a temp suitable for the brine shrimp or no, as I live on a Caribbean island where it’s sunny all year, and it’s in late 70’s-early 80’s always outside?
In freshwater daphnia cultures people add snails to eat through the mulm and their poop encourages infusoria. I wonder if adding nerite snails would work with brine shrimp.
After reading you comment I googled it. Nerites thrive in the same temperature and pH range as the brine shrimp. SOME are from saltwater environment and are happy in the same salinity as the brine shrimp. Fresh water nerites are actually brackish snails that can live in fresh water It might work. You (I) might need to acclimate the snail rather than just dropping it in from a fresh water tank. 72-78F, 1.020-1.028 salinity, 8.1-8.4pH Buying a salt water nerites snail would be ideal.
Thanks for the info! I'm really considering setting up a 'Sea Monkey' tank. I have a spare 2.5 gallon. Do you think that would work or would it be too tough to keep the salt levels correct? I have no experience with keeping salt water personally. I can get another 10 gallon if I need to, but at that size I'd have to find a spot for it.
A 2.5 will work. Salt levels are not difficult at all to maintain on a brine shrimp tank. The waste is so minimal that the parameters don’t seem to swing at all. Give it a shot!
1 1/2 to 1 2/3 level tablespoon per litre. I just used “coarse salt “ with no additives i think its used for canning foods. You can add a pinch of epsom salts in there as well if you have it.
I don't collect the eggs, the adults give live birth when "happy". Not sure how long the adults live for, I harvested the adults for fish food but always kept enough to keep the colony going.
hey this is super cool, I'm thinking of making a brine shrimp tank myself. If I wasn't planning on breeding them to feed to fish, will overbreeding become a problem? After some of them die in the tank, what happens to their bodies?
Yep. Salt is very beneficial to the tank. The downside would be too much would effect plants but we’re taking such a minuscule amount that’s on the hatched brine that it wouldn’t even register. That and with water changes there would be pretty much non existent salt in the tank. Washing brine shrimp seems like a waste of time in my opinion.
Oh. What make and model of Sponge filter?? -Bigger or micro sized holes? I imagine the babies would die with the wrong setup. -- I would love to get this going right on the first try... Thx for the great video!
@@SCAquatics Thank you!! Great!! Will order some for outdoor tubs... at elevation in Hawaii. Nice temps, always. (At sea level, you can have all the tropical fishyou want to swim with... in unheated ponds all year.)
Cool video. I think im going to get some of these going in a 5 gal. How long does a brine shrimp live? What salinity are you running at? You can add vitamins and supplements to the water like selcon as well to get them even more nutricious. I would feed them spirulina though too. I dont need this much brine shrimp. Lol looks like you dont have a choice. Are they affected much by salinity changes?
OK that's good I use aquarium salt to hatch that shouldn't hurt my betta fry and big bettas that's all I have is bettas red root floaters and riccia water spangles
Can you feed phyto instead of the spirulina powder? The way I understand it is spirulina is dry algea... vs phyto being live. Difference is you can also have a live phyto culture so as not to constantly buy spirulina.
Absolutely! i ran the tank for about 10 months then i needed to move some fish from my outside pond indoors from a cold spike in a hurry. i ended up feeding the rest of the brine shrimp then cleaned and repurposed the tank.
what happens when 1. 5-day hatched BBS start smelling? 2. and what does it mean when they settle at the bottom? 3. and do they shed another layer after hatching? Thanks
Are you sure they are both live bears and egg layers? I don't think I've ever heard that. Also instead of scrapping the eggs you can use a turkey baster and spray them off the sides....
Hi there do you have to clean the tank at all and when mine over 4 weeks in and no water change just top off only and i meant to feed my goldfish but cant get myself to do it what size your tank ohh 10 gallon ok thankyou from uk
Hello Stephen, I started a brine shrimp tank about 5 days ago. My tank is cloudy. Should I be concerned about that? The temp is at 78, my salinity is 30 ppt and the brine shrimp are eating the spirulina powder and look healthy.
IAmSugarHill it could be the spirulina powder clouding the water. Make sure you’re not adding too much each time. If everything is looking healthy I’d stay the course and maybe do small water change and recheck salinity level. When changing water try and use just a hose (instead of a full funnel like a python). Put a paper towel over the end to prevent sucking up of the brine shrimp.
I've been having difficulties with growing out brine shrimp. The first few batches, I can put down to my own silly mistakes: One lot hatched ok, then probably got too hot (30C) because I left the lamp on (halogen). The next lot I had a physical failure of the tube - and they all drained out :/ Then on the 3rd batch I left the air off for too long, as I had to go somewhere and they all seemed to die, presumbaly because of the lack of O2. I can hatch them reliably, but I just keep screwing up the grow out/transfer stage. I have a 10L tank that sits near a natural light source, and the thermometer is fairly reliably at the 26-28C mark. Perhaps my grow out tank has the wrong salinity? I'm using aquarium salt but I don't have a refractometer (yet) so I've aimed to use the same salinity as the hatchery. As stated earlier, they're hatching out just great and loads of viable little baby shrimp are present each time. The hatchery bottle uses 12g rock/aquarium salt per 500mL, so using 10L of water I've multiplied that to 240g of salt. I'm also using bicarb as a pH buffer. So far the critters keep dying in my growout tank. Any ideas?
Maybe the salinity like you said is unstable in the grow out tank. Every time I’d hatch out baby brine to feed my tanks I would always hold back a little bit to put in the grow out tank. At first it seemed I was putting thousands of baby brine into the tank and nothing was happening. I kept the same schedule of dumping extras in and they finally took off and would grow to adults. I would pick up a salinity refractometer off amazon/eBay and that will help dial in the salinity.
Yeah I'm thinking that's probably the variable to blame. I've also kept the light off for now, since being a halogen (bought specifically to BE a heater light) it likely cooked the first batch (they started out quite healthy). As I understand it, they don't necessarily need the light. They are in an area with natural light through the day, as the algae would be useful here. I have a non-digital thermometer (old school style) and the temperature seems to be right in the sweet spot, even in the night so for this run I've opted to leave the light off. I am using a bare air line with no air stone. Mathematically, I can't see the problem with making preciasely 20x the amount of the same solution - you would think that the hatch water (12g salt in 500mL) would be more prone to measurement error, and yet they seem to be quite happy in that. Then when I transfer them, they appear to be cark it for no obvious reason. (I haven't received my refractometer yet, your advice is solid).
Update: I went and checked - there actually does seem to be a large population of living shrimp in there. There's a load of what appeared to be dead shrimp on the bottom of the tank, but still thousands that are wriggling around when the water stops. I won't call this round failed *just yet*.
Just for idea, I am recently growing adult brine shrimp. I am using 10 gallon plastic container with no air pump or heater just kept outside. (Summer on sydney temp changing from 20 to 35 degrees) Shrimps doing great. Feeding spriluna powder and dry yeast mixed in water and small dose 2/3 days. I hatch baby brine shrimp in bottle inside aquarium with air bubble. Remove most of the baby fir feeding my fish. Whatever left goes in the big container. I am trying to make sustainable population to keep feeding my fish once every week as treat. Let's see how it goes😄
@@bipulshrestha1Like many others on RUclips.. They may die for the first two or three times you add the shrimp and waste water. Once the Nitrifying Bacteria stabilize from all the deaths. The water will become stable and then they will make it. If you had Fritzyme bacteria for saltwater.. You should succeed sooner. Otherwise the Ammonia and low oxygen kills them off. Eventually you win.
Is aquarium salt ok to use to raise them into adulthood? I dont have any experience with ocean salt water stuff. Also, I have them in a small sterilite storage tote thats sitting on half of a plant heating pad thing. Oh and just an fyi, some plants cant tolerate salt.
Great video, I’m going to start breeding these for my fish tank and I was wondering how long do they survive in freshwater before they die? I’m asking because I wanna know how much to feed my fish so I don’t over feed and then have them go to corners of my tank and die and dirty my water.
Im actually not very sure of their life span in freshwater... as when I drop them into my tanks to feed the fish they get eaten rather quickly.Just start with a small amount and up it from there
What is the purpose of having the light in all the time? Are the brine shrimp temperature sensitive? I have mine in a 2.5 gallon tank, with incadescent lights on top, and an airline.. The water got really murky and smelly, and virtually all the shrimp died(hence the murkiness and odor!) Do you think the failure was due to the water not warm enough? Also, how strong should the air flow be?
It could be the tank crashed the cycle. I ran the light all the time to get algae growing as a food source. Brine shrimp shed their skin often so water changes are needed to keep the quality of water up. Make sure filtration is on point.
On my 5th try , somehow mine cant survive past 4 days everytime. Have airline, n spirulina powder feed. I use dechlorinator + tap water when starting the tank tho. & my tank doesnt have live algae. Not sure if that is an issue.
Can the flow be to intense? Im running a tetra quiet air punp 20-40 gallon. In a One gallon tank tub, I feel like I'm stressing out the shrimp. Moved it near the surface and the flow rate is alot better but still much.
You can throw an adjustable valve on the air line to lower the flow. If you don’t have one you can also put a knot in the air line, the tighter the knot the lower the air flow.
It was the only way to keep my ph down to 7.5 was using API Salt or I else I would have to use Ph down. If I don't, it goes up to ph 8 and able. Strange. It is 150 Gallons IBC tote that only has 20 guppies.
Nice video, and this is something i can truly say, i never saw in the others chanels i follow.
The only problem i have with it, is that now you gave me a very good reason to set up another tank. My wife won't be happy hahahahah
Alejandro Ch thank you for the kind words! If you pick up a small tank (2.5 gal, 5gal etc) you can hide the tank from the wife!
@@SCAquatics hello..the eggs come in the aquarium wall?
Wives are never happy over another tank! lol
@@lesagraceakil7134 They floated after being released from females.
Please help! What are the little white vall looking things at bottom of my brine tank? Any ideas, @@SCAquatics
Finally - a clear and concise video about culturing brine shrimp!
Thank you 🙏
Currently have a 2.5 gallon aquarium with a sponge filter held down by 3 rocks and a 5 watt water heater preset for 78-80 degrees. Your info has helped a lot. Today I went and got spurilina powder and it's honestly identical to the food that comes with sea monkey kits. I got into this by getting a bunch of sea monkey kits and have come to learn they are brine shrimp. I've read that sea monkeys are hybrids but I'm almost positive this info isn't correct. I'm pretty positive they are identical. My sea monkey kits have continuously failed and I learned why! My temp was at room temperature with stagnant water! Again your info has helped more then anything and I'm about to have my dream sea monkey tank! Only doing a 2.5 gallon because I'm not a fish guy. Just want some sea monkeys. Probably will feed these guys occasionally to my betas. Thank you so much! Please make more content!
Thanks for the comment!
How much salt do we use and how often to feed then and how are you getting on im just starting but just dont know how much salt from uk
When I’m hatching BB I put used salt water after sieve and feed into a shoebox size tote until it gets 3/4 full. There are always artemia surviving or getting through the sieve. In fact if you put a light on it they are drawn to the light in a corner you can get several more harvests from that. I also feed mine Spirulina powder but I premix some with water and feed with a dropper. I shake it up first. They actually don’t need much air, periodic once a day even scoop some water and let it fall back in. You can leave them for months without anything and they will still live. They are just healthier with some kind of aeration probably. I had an air tube in the corner with just a few bubbles coming up once in a while
Clicked on this video randomly while following my interest in sea monkeys. Blew my mind that you named the saltwater shop in my town. Nice to see a local on YT! Thanks for the information as well :)
That's pretty cool
I'm definitely going to have to do this I love your idea and thanks to L.R.Bretz for sharing your fishroom with us..... great content as always thanks for sharing and remember to keep on tankin fish fam 🤜 👍✌️
Great video! I keep hatching BBS, but have been looking for a way to grow some too, for bigger fish. This was very helpful. Thanks.
Thanks
Good video; thank you. I was wondering how to grow them out. I started freezing the baby brine shrimp in mini ice cubes so they wouldn't just die and go to waste. I just ordered the spirulina powder before your video even ended!
Haha awesome! Good luck with your new project!
this was the exact video I have been looking for- for abt 45 mins now. Thank you !
So good, I've tried to raise them to adults over and over again. They always die after about three weeks. You've inspired me to try again.
Consistentcy is the key, how did it go?
@@weezypeezy1725 can't keep them alive longer than two weeks.
@@fatmasglobal sponge filter... very few eggs and foods at first... the algae needs to grow on the glass... and the Nitrogen Cycle needs to grow bacteria to process the wastes... or you get cloudy stinky water and death.
-Even though spirulina is much less dirty than yeast... it still decays and needs to be processed with the poop of the shrimp.
A thought: if you set a light at one side of your tank, they may all flock there so you can vacuum the mulm off of the bottom of the aquarium. If it's not too salty, you can then use that water, dilute it a bit, and water your plants. 🙂
Good idea
It wasnt as difficult as i thought mine 9 day and growing you can see there legs omg thanks for your videos still because im learning from ya 😀
Is the light source absolutely necessary? Will ambient lights from a window work ? Or if I set a tub close to my other tank would it still work ?
Good video Steve,thanks, I never rinse mine off before feeding either,best easy to understand method I've seen for a long time.👍
Nice video. I actually started growing out my bbs again. This time I placed them in a fish bowl and placed it in a 10 gal. Then after I did this, I remembered your video. So I plan to empty the fish bowl in the tank sometime this week. Thanks for sharing this video.
Tip, when their water is crystal clear they have eaten all food, if water is ever cloudy don’t feed they haven’t finished food from before. That’s how they crash is over feeding. When you water change put the salt water you sucked out in a narrow but tall cup and what live shrimp are in there can be turkey basted off top &put back in. Love your video. I love watching them while I do dishes
Tip for European people who want to grow (and/or breed) artemia successfully: get the "Sel de Guerande" (from France), the coarse grey one (between 1,50 and 2 euros for 1 kilo, depending on which store you buy it
Your information was very easy to understand, changing the water every 6 mons is not bad
You've definitely inspired me to create my own brine shrimp culture. I was considering daphnia at first, but brine shrimp eggs seem way easier to find than daphnia. Plus I already have some aquarium salt laying around and an extra air pump. Thanks for the video, and I look forward to more in the future.
Roscle Hilltopple thank you for the positive comments, I appreciate them! Good luck and it takes patience to get the brine shrimp culture going but keep at it and you’ll nail it!
How’d it go? Did aquarium salt work?
@@sokritlun1624 It hatches them fine, but doesn't have all the minerals for good healthy shrimp.
Rock salt works too , I used around 1 kg rock salt for 10 gallon tank (35 gm for 1 litre water). Haven't tested the salinity but its doing great. Brine shrimp easy to culture due to available eggs. Rock salt is very cheap compared to aquarium salt.
@@bipulshrestha1 I deleted my comment about only Marine salt, seeing people are doing Rock salt, as you say. Yes.
-so cool! We can make an outdoor pond filled with Water softener salt, maybe the waste water, too (if you use a softener).. and have seasonal shrimp in your yard, forever!! If it dries up and gets cold, like in Utah... and then warms up and it rains... Eggs hatch, and you have your own salt lake of brine shrimp!! Exciting!!!
(of course, use a non leaking pond liner.)
Well done! Common sense ways for the common man . Perfect!
I been looking every where for someone to show me how to do grow out tank im new to all of this and em doing it for fun but nice for my goldfish thankyou for video from uk 😀at last
Great video thanks a lot for the tutorial, and thank you for letting Lucas do a tour of your fish room I got the link to your channel and subscribed from watching that video look forward to your new videos
Thanks ted! I appreciate the follow!
Thanks for the info can’t wait to start!
Wow your wife is cool to even allow you to have an aquarium in the kitchen
I’m so going to do this thanks for sharing the information and it nice to meet you fish fam 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
No problem 👍
Hey man thanks for the video you actually inspired me to start my own grow out tank and document the process just wondering how often you feed them?
Santisreef once a day sometimes every few days. With how busy I’ve been sometimes it’s a few days between feedings
Awesome.... I would love love to make this... thanks for the info
Thanks for this! Been raising seahorse fry and up until now newly hatched has been fine. Started a brine tank but wasn’t sure how to feed it.
Yes please post more content ivelrn so much from you thanks so much
Could you please let us know how you separate the adult brine shrimp from the BBS when you're looking to feed a fry grow out tank? I'm curious about that...
Just spyhon and then filter with a net. You should be able to not suck adults if you are careful
I use a small pipette and a torch on the side of the tank. The smaller bbs tend to flock to the light faster in my adventures.
I've always wondered why people hassle with making new batches each day and basically loosing a ton of cash on this.
You are the only one (so far that I've seen) to explain how.
I had a tank in the basement to raise daphneas but it failed because of a cyclops "bloom" that killed em all it was a blood bath.
Think I'm going to give brine shrimps a try in that very same tank.
Tho I would like to see, basically the same video redone while you are filming the actual tank instead of your beautiful face 😜
Thank you for the video ❤️ this is great!!
You're so welcome!
Was there a population explosion after pushing all the eggs back into the tank? Great video I’m tempted just like everyone else nice job :) Also do you think it would work with just lighting from the room?
I had the desk lamp so i figured it wouldn’t hurt. I bet room lighting would work but brine shrimp are attracted to light FYI. I do have more babies so maybe an explosion happened 😉
Trying to do the same setup thinking I need more algae bloom thanks
How long does it take for them to grow to adults, i started a tank when i saw your video. They are growing you can see them a lot better now its been a little less than 2 weeks now and seems like theyre all still alive. You sir, are a good man lol
bambam_ dc it can take a month or two to get to full size. Once they’re full adults you’ll get offspring to keep the colony going. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
@@SCAquatics awesome thanks for the quick reply i thought i was doing something wrong since every where ive searched they say they grow fast. Not sure what secret formula they feed them with but mines didnt look like theirs lol Trying to grow these out to feed live foods to my killifish so they can spawn more
Great information in this tutorial. 👍 I haven't tried sea monkeys before.
So cool, thanks for sharing. I am getting some baby koi hatched about two weeks ago from a friend and most have died due I believe to lack of brine, so I will be hatching my first brine this week just before they get to me and will try to raise some myself. Question do I have to heat the water to get a temp suitable for the brine shrimp or no, as I live on a Caribbean island where it’s sunny all year, and it’s in late 70’s-early 80’s always outside?
Great video bud. Thanks man.
Great idea starting one today, btw hello from uk.
Armenestra Patey awesome! Well, hello from Ohio! 😎
Just ordered some marine salt, as I only had sea salt from the supermarket.🤔
I use marine salt as well, but mainly because I keep one salt water tank
In freshwater daphnia cultures people add snails to eat through the mulm and their poop encourages infusoria. I wonder if adding nerite snails would work with brine shrimp.
I guess it’s possible. Never thought of it. It’s a great suggestion to try out!
After reading you comment I googled it. Nerites thrive in the same temperature and pH range as the brine shrimp. SOME are from saltwater environment and are happy in the same salinity as the brine shrimp. Fresh water nerites are actually brackish snails that can live in fresh water It might work. You (I) might need to acclimate the snail rather than just dropping it in from a fresh water tank.
72-78F, 1.020-1.028 salinity, 8.1-8.4pH
Buying a salt water nerites snail would be ideal.
Great Informative Video! Thanks!
I use phytoplankton to feed my brine
New subscriber. I live in Columbus so I'm looking forward to meeting you.
Awesome!
Thanks for the info! I'm really considering setting up a 'Sea Monkey' tank. I have a spare 2.5 gallon. Do you think that would work or would it be too tough to keep the salt levels correct? I have no experience with keeping salt water personally. I can get another 10 gallon if I need to, but at that size I'd have to find a spot for it.
A 2.5 will work. Salt levels are not difficult at all to maintain on a brine shrimp tank. The waste is so minimal that the parameters don’t seem to swing at all. Give it a shot!
Very helpful. Thank you.
One thing though! I don't have a hydrometer. How many tbsps or how would you measure the salt you use into your tank?
1 1/2 to 1 2/3 level tablespoon per litre. I just used “coarse salt “ with no additives i think its used for canning foods. You can add a pinch of epsom salts in there as well if you have it.
Hi thanks for the video I would like to see how u collect eggs and how long are the adults shrimp live?
I don't collect the eggs, the adults give live birth when "happy". Not sure how long the adults live for, I harvested the adults for fish food but always kept enough to keep the colony going.
Great info mate!! Do you monitor ph levels in your tank?
I actually don’t. I probably should though
hey this is super cool, I'm thinking of making a brine shrimp tank myself. If I wasn't planning on breeding them to feed to fish, will overbreeding become a problem? After some of them die in the tank, what happens to their bodies?
You can use an air line tube to suction off the bottom of the tank. The bodies will fall to the bottom if they die.
nice video mate, how often do you feed them? i've just started a similar set up
Great setup. Right, the small amount of salt you get into the tank is NOT going to hurt a thing. Probably helps more than anything.
Yep. Salt is very beneficial to the tank. The downside would be too much would effect plants but we’re taking such a minuscule amount that’s on the hatched brine that it wouldn’t even register. That and with water changes there would be pretty much non existent salt in the tank. Washing brine shrimp seems like a waste of time in my opinion.
Oh. What make and model of Sponge filter??
-Bigger or micro sized holes? I imagine the babies would die with the wrong setup.
-- I would love to get this going right on the first try... Thx for the great video!
Its a hakari sponge filter. Theres no size option but they are small holes.
@@SCAquatics Thank you!!
Great!! Will order some for outdoor tubs... at elevation in Hawaii.
Nice temps, always.
(At sea level, you can have all the tropical fishyou want to swim with... in unheated ponds all year.)
You have plenty of room to get the heater sideways? Wouldn't that let more heat escape off of it?
hasnt really been an issue with its mounting. Its at an angle now, dont think i really need it completely sideways as it works fine currently
Awesome video. How often do you feed the brine shrimp with the Spriulina powder?
Usually once a day but not all the time. Sometimes I may skip a day or two (not really on purpose more of just so busy).
So 5y ago little lit to the party but eggs means water to salty.
Cool video. I think im going to get some of these going in a 5 gal. How long does a brine shrimp live? What salinity are you running at? You can add vitamins and supplements to the water like selcon as well to get them even more nutricious. I would feed them spirulina though too. I dont need this much brine shrimp. Lol looks like you dont have a choice. Are they affected much by salinity changes?
OK that's good I use aquarium salt to hatch that shouldn't hurt my betta fry and big bettas that's all I have is bettas red root floaters and riccia water spangles
How do you remove them and how often are you able to remove the big ones to feed?
Just use a fish net to remove them, i feed once a week to the puffer maybe twice, could feed more often I suppose.
Played at 1.5x to 2x speed for best results, thanks for the info tho
Don't the shrimp get trapped in the sponge filter as well?
From uk
Keep the vids up man ✅
Thanks!
Can you feed phyto instead of the spirulina powder? The way I understand it is spirulina is dry algea... vs phyto being live. Difference is you can also have a live phyto culture so as not to constantly buy spirulina.
sounds good... did it work?
Ohio here to bro. Newark Ohio
Great video 👍 can you do a update its been a year is it still going strong?
Absolutely! i ran the tank for about 10 months then i needed to move some fish from my outside pond indoors from a cold spike in a hurry. i ended up feeding the rest of the brine shrimp then cleaned and repurposed the tank.
Thx great one 👍
No problem 👍
Great video
How often do you feed them and how much salt in the water please thankyou from uk thanks for video
Hi.. nice video you got there.. I am new with this aquarium thing. is it okay to feed your fish specially guppies with full grown brine shrimp.
I don’t think they’ll eat full grown brine shrimp. May be too big
They're eating that mulm. It is growing algae and they probably love it.
im sure they do!
I've setup a tank as well, but no filter yet, doesn't do a spongefilter suck al the baby brines in?
what happens when 1. 5-day hatched BBS start smelling? 2. and what does it mean when they settle at the bottom? 3. and do they shed another layer after hatching? Thanks
How do i set up tank for live shrimp
I'm struggling to grow them out past 3 days. Cycled 1 gal. Marine salt. Algae growing on sides of tank. Test water and salt daily. Any ideas?
Are you sure they are both live bears and egg layers? I don't think I've ever heard that. Also instead of scrapping the eggs you can use a turkey baster and spray them off the sides....
If you have algae growing in the tank why do you need to feed the spirulina?
Killer beard bro 🙂
Hi there do you have to clean the tank at all and when mine over 4 weeks in and no water change just top off only and i meant to feed my goldfish but cant get myself to do it what size your tank ohh 10 gallon ok thankyou from uk
You can test for nitrates like you would with a normal tank and change water accordingly.
Salt might help preventing fish diseases. It helps fish to regenerate the outer slime layer.
It does!
Hello Stephen, I started a brine shrimp tank about 5 days ago. My tank is cloudy. Should I be concerned about that? The temp is at 78, my salinity is 30 ppt and the brine shrimp are eating the spirulina powder and look healthy.
IAmSugarHill it could be the spirulina powder clouding the water. Make sure you’re not adding too much each time. If everything is looking healthy I’d stay the course and maybe do small water change and recheck salinity level. When changing water try and use just a hose (instead of a full funnel like a python). Put a paper towel over the end to prevent sucking up of the brine shrimp.
@@SCAquatics thanks. I'll take your advice.
Isnt that a brix meter ??
OK, thanks for replying the salt content to the water
I've been having difficulties with growing out brine shrimp. The first few batches, I can put down to my own silly mistakes:
One lot hatched ok, then probably got too hot (30C) because I left the lamp on (halogen).
The next lot I had a physical failure of the tube - and they all drained out :/
Then on the 3rd batch I left the air off for too long, as I had to go somewhere and they all seemed to die, presumbaly because of the lack of O2.
I can hatch them reliably, but I just keep screwing up the grow out/transfer stage. I have a 10L tank that sits near a natural light source, and the thermometer is fairly reliably at the 26-28C mark.
Perhaps my grow out tank has the wrong salinity? I'm using aquarium salt but I don't have a refractometer (yet) so I've aimed to use the same salinity as the hatchery. As stated earlier, they're hatching out just great and loads of viable little baby shrimp are present each time. The hatchery bottle uses 12g rock/aquarium salt per 500mL, so using 10L of water I've multiplied that to 240g of salt.
I'm also using bicarb as a pH buffer.
So far the critters keep dying in my growout tank. Any ideas?
Maybe the salinity like you said is unstable in the grow out tank. Every time I’d hatch out baby brine to feed my tanks I would always hold back a little bit to put in the grow out tank. At first it seemed I was putting thousands of baby brine into the tank and nothing was happening. I kept the same schedule of dumping extras in and they finally took off and would grow to adults. I would pick up a salinity refractometer off amazon/eBay and that will help dial in the salinity.
Yeah I'm thinking that's probably the variable to blame. I've also kept the light off for now, since being a halogen (bought specifically to BE a heater light) it likely cooked the first batch (they started out quite healthy).
As I understand it, they don't necessarily need the light. They are in an area with natural light through the day, as the algae would be useful here. I have a non-digital thermometer (old school style) and the temperature seems to be right in the sweet spot, even in the night so for this run I've opted to leave the light off. I am using a bare air line with no air stone.
Mathematically, I can't see the problem with making preciasely 20x the amount of the same solution - you would think that the hatch water (12g salt in 500mL) would be more prone to measurement error, and yet they seem to be quite happy in that. Then when I transfer them, they appear to be cark it for no obvious reason.
(I haven't received my refractometer yet, your advice is solid).
Update: I went and checked - there actually does seem to be a large population of living shrimp in there. There's a load of what appeared to be dead shrimp on the bottom of the tank, but still thousands that are wriggling around when the water stops. I won't call this round failed *just yet*.
Just for idea, I am recently growing adult brine shrimp. I am using 10 gallon plastic container with no air pump or heater just kept outside. (Summer on sydney temp changing from 20 to 35 degrees) Shrimps doing great. Feeding spriluna powder and dry yeast mixed in water and small dose 2/3 days. I hatch baby brine shrimp in bottle inside aquarium with air bubble. Remove most of the baby fir feeding my fish. Whatever left goes in the big container. I am trying to make sustainable population to keep feeding my fish once every week as treat. Let's see how it goes😄
@@bipulshrestha1Like many others on RUclips.. They may die for the first two or three times you add the shrimp and waste water.
Once the Nitrifying Bacteria stabilize from all the deaths. The water will become stable and then they will make it.
If you had Fritzyme bacteria for saltwater.. You should succeed sooner.
Otherwise the Ammonia and low oxygen kills them off. Eventually you win.
Is aquarium salt ok to use to raise them into adulthood? I dont have any experience with ocean salt water stuff. Also, I have them in a small sterilite storage tote thats sitting on half of a plant heating pad thing. Oh and just an fyi, some plants cant tolerate salt.
How much water do you take out when doing a water change thankyou from uk 😀can they be fed to freshwater tank goldfish
Great video, I’m going to start breeding these for my fish tank and I was wondering how long do they survive in freshwater before they die? I’m asking because I wanna know how much to feed my fish so I don’t over feed and then have them go to corners of my tank and die and dirty my water.
Im actually not very sure of their life span in freshwater... as when I drop them into my tanks to feed the fish they get eaten rather quickly.Just start with a small amount and up it from there
I have a ton of white little balls at the bottom of brine tank. Anyone know what they are?? Help
How do you clean your brine shrimp tank?
How long do your adults live?
How often you feed the spirulina powder?
So i dont do water change for 6 months
Hi, How often do you feed ? Do you check Ammonia, what about BBS poop ? Thanks
What is the purpose of having the light in all the time? Are the brine shrimp temperature sensitive? I have mine in a 2.5 gallon tank, with incadescent lights on top, and an airline.. The water got really murky and smelly, and virtually all the shrimp died(hence the murkiness and odor!) Do you think the failure was due to the water not warm enough? Also, how strong should the air flow be?
It could be the tank crashed the cycle. I ran the light all the time to get algae growing as a food source. Brine shrimp shed their skin often so water changes are needed to keep the quality of water up. Make sure filtration is on point.
Lagotto349. That’s what happens to me too.
How many times should we feed the bbs in 1 day
Once a day
On my 5th try , somehow mine cant survive past 4 days everytime. Have airline, n spirulina powder feed.
I use dechlorinator + tap water when starting the tank tho. & my tank doesnt have live algae. Not sure if that is an issue.
make sure you run a sponge filter, brine shrimp produce a lot of waste so its possible they're dying from ammonia
do you use any kind of water? im trying to raise mine in distilled but not having much luck, im trying tap next.
before feeding? I usually dont rinse but If i do its tap water
How do you keep the older bbs from the adults if you want to feed them to your fish?
Use a course net to capture the larger shrimp
Now I know what to do with that tiny little 1 gallon that's too small to put fish in.
Do it!
Can the flow be to intense? Im running a tetra quiet air punp 20-40 gallon. In a One gallon tank tub, I feel like I'm stressing out the shrimp. Moved it near the surface and the flow rate is alot better but still much.
You can throw an adjustable valve on the air line to lower the flow. If you don’t have one you can also put a knot in the air line, the tighter the knot the lower the air flow.
do you use regular tap water dechlorinated?
Yep
It was the only way to keep my ph down to 7.5 was using API Salt or I else I would have to use Ph down. If I don't, it goes up to ph 8 and able. Strange. It is 150 Gallons IBC tote that only has 20 guppies.