How to Set Up a Baby Brine Shrimp Hatchery
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
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We are upgrading our brine shrimp hatchery and wanted to show you what we've learned after hatching out brine shrimp twice a day for the last year or so.
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Pretty bad that the hatchery rate is about 5%
I've used 1 gallon milk jugs, didn't use a light because ambient room lighting is sufficient, no need for baking soda.
Granted I wasn't raising them for commercial use so I didn't worry about a 100% yield.
Tap water, un-iodized salt, eggs & air pump, air line & air stone.
Great video.
Same I don't use heater or light just water, bbs, salt and air bubbles
3 things necessary to successfully hatch brine shrimp eggs. #1 salinity of 1.018 to 1.030 #2 ph of 8 or higher #3 temp between 80 and 82 F
Thanks to you Jason i hatched my first batch yesterday and fed them this morning. I was so happy to see them enjoy it so much. It felt like i was a good fish guardian. I did your system. Thank you for the coaching and my fish also thank you i guess with their big bellies!! LOL
That's so cool! Most fish love live baby brine! :-)
This was a huge help! Thank you so much!!! My baby betta fish are gonna love this.
Awesome!
Glad I found your channel, you seem like a good dude with a lot of knowledge :D
Thank you! Hope it helps.
Hi Jason I followed your tutorial today and set up my first brine shrimp hatchery! Just wanted you to know something you recorded 5 yrs ago is still helping people who have joined the hobby since then . Thanks!
That’s great to hear - thank you!
I use the same bottles but I set Ming up in a nice plywood holder. I use a Co2 caps to get an air supply and the other outlet as a release valve to get the shrimp out. A light draws them to the bottom shells to the top. Easy as breathing.
This is such a vibe. 💙💚💛💙💚💛
Awesome video. I'm aware theirs plenty of methods, I was just interested in this video you made because it was straight forward and you showed all the steps even the feeding. I am not sure what we will feed our clown fish babies yet. Tonight we had to rearrange fish and clean filters. At least if we decide to that brine shrimp are an option, we could set up the feed in a hurry! Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the tip about the smooth bottles! I am in the process of building a hatchery and this helped👍
Thank you. The smooth bottles have made life so much easier. : -)
I dont even own a tank, but here i am ha ha
Glad you are here!
thank you, love seeing your babies eat..
Thank you!
Didn't knew you could get the bbs out that way and feed lol what I did was install a valve beneath the bottle cap but yours seem much easier lol
Ya, it just keeps me from having to go out and buy valves, but both ways work just fine. : -)
Love the straw idea for feeding. Nice and simple for me lol
Thank you :-)
Wow your system looking very efficient.
Thank you!
You can always buy Suckers to attach to your Bottles and stick to the Aquarium.
Thank you needed some help with this
You could feed your brine shrimp some Spirulina powder and they will live much longer and healthier for your fry, in fact feed your brine that you are growing out spirulina to keep them alive.
Wow love the nice neat beard, you look so young!!! Great video!
Thank you!
Those geophagous are peaceful aren't they? Curious, I hope to get back into fish at some point (been going through a super rough time) and so far you got me kinda liking them when I really never have in all my almost 50 years.. them and those multis lol I love that 50 lowboy I don't see them online hardly anywhere. Anyway just wanted to thank you for the video I subbed a week or so ago and clicked the notification thing haha. Have a good one.
Hi Nomad - I think the type of Geophagus matters. Geophagus heckeli have usually been pretty laid back for me. Geophagus steindachneri (Red Hump) are probably on the more aggressive side from what I've seen. Tapajos are also a little more rambunctious as well. All of them are really cool fish though! I hear Zoomed might be coming out with additional sizes like the low boy - looking forward to seeing those. Wish they'd come out with a 4ft x 4ft.
Excellent content. Thank you for this.
Thank you!
Great information.....what kind of plant is in that fry tank?
Great project for the kids. Thats a good idea. Tanks!
It's fun feeding the stuff too!
I was at a reef store & they used a 2 gallon beverage dispenser.
I wonder if you could use ice cube trays and freeze them for later use like they sell them in the store?
You can, but they would no longer be alive.
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Perfect 💯💪🏾
What about the salt that is released into the tanks with the bbs? Will it cause problems?Still a good video, thanks!
The small amount of salt added to the tank generally doesn't effect my fish. I don't add salt to the water when doing water changes so regular water changes are keeping overall salt concentrations in check for me. Good question!
Any time I try hatching bbs with their own provided salt in with the eggs they never hatch. Don't know what I. Doing wrong ?
I haven’t used eggs where there is salt mixed in already?
Hi Jason. When you feed the fish, are you worried about the salt in there ? I was thinking if there are Cory cats for example. Thanks
I don't worry about only because my fish aren't super salt sensitive and the water changes remove a lot of the salt that is added every week (it's a very small amount).
Thanks great information as usual. Do you ever raise the brine shrimp for the larger fish like Rasbora's & Tetra's? Thanks again
Hi John, Absolutely. I feed out brine shrimp twice a day. Besides all my fry - all my shellies love it, as do my guppies, apistos, cyprichromis, bolivian rams, angels and smaller geophagus!
I found your channel yesterday. GREAT info. and content. I might suggest better mic. and lighting (camera?) and you'll be a premier YT fish guy in no time. Good luck and hope you keep this up.
Already taken care of - have since updated camera and audio on newer videos. : -) Thanks for watching!
Great video
I just cut a hole in a styrafoam box. And it holds the bottle very stable good video !
That'll work too. : -) Thanks for sharing.
Nice video!
Thanks Luc!
Why my fish won't eat the yellow flakes and multi color tetra fish food
We have moved all our fish to Northfin foods - they love it!
are you using shell free ez egg bbs?, and i'm assuming you dump the whole bottle an start fresh every run? do you dump trough a strainer to catch all?
I use decapsulated brine shrimp. Yes, I start fresh with each new batch - still hatching twice a day. I haven't been using a strainer only because all the LBB sinks to the bottom once I remove it from the air line.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics TY! and happy holidays to you and yours!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics Decapsulated brine shrimp eggs are (non-Hatching) according to BSD?
@@popparock6506 Their e-z egg is the decapsulated hatching eggs.
Your filter will suck a good portion of the Artemia. Nice vid do !!!
Using sponge filters cuts that down tremendously! However, people will some times shut their filtration off when feeing live baby brine. : -)
That's what I do for a couple of hours, cause rotten Crustaceans are very toxic '-)
I have a 5GAL tank. Could I use that for breeding and hatching?
Yes, but it might be cumbersome to remove the brine.
Do you order your brine shrimp eggs online? Is there a specific way to store them until your ready to hatch them?
I order them from Brine Shrimp Direct and keep them in the fridge.
So even if you use tap water with chlorine in it you can add it to the tank ?
Ya, the chlorine usually dissipates in 24 hours and it is a tiny amount.
Prime Time Aquatics ok awesome thank you
So that salt in the brine shrimp water won't bother anything with you fry tank? It's the one thing I've wondered about I. Feeding brine shrimp.
Ive never had any issues, but I also water change fry tanks about 50% once a week. Also, most of the fish a I keep are cichlids so they tend to handle salt well.
If you are breeding soft water fish , or your base tap wafer is soft, pour brine shrimp over a coffee filter and rinse with distilled water
Have you noticed a PH spike in the tanks after you feed and have you had any issues with your plants from the salt?
Great question. I have not noticed any changes in pH. The plants seem to do just fine with the little amount of salt it adds when feeding. Nothing has died off. I do about 30% water changes per week in each tank as well so that probably helps. TDS has been consistent so I don't think too much salt is hanging around.
Prime Time Aquatics - That's good. I had some issues a long time ago but I was feeding in a breeder box and in a 10g. I ended up just using a 1 micron sock and poring tank water over them before feeding them.
But then you are using a lot more tank water than I used.
Will the salt water that you sucked up with the brine shrimp be okay to put into a tank with shrimp and snails?
Depends on how much? I haven't seen any issues with my mystery snails, but haven't added brine shrimp to any tanks with shrimp.
Prime Time Aquatics is there a way to rinse them free of the salt water before adding them?
I have ramshorn snails, whisker shrimp, guppies, and an oto in my tank.
Bro how many fry can feed that 1 bottle..is that good for 1 day feed for fry?
Lots the way I make it. I make it twice a day and each time I can feed about 10 tanks at least.
The twin bottle hatchery looks intriguing. Is it available on the market?
I think it's mostly a DIY project. It only takes a few minutes. : -)
I apologize, I "tuned in" at 7:33/11:43. Only now I watched the part of the video that preceded it. In 0:58-7:32, are you standing next to your tank with multies while explaining how to make the hatchery bottles? Tomorrow I'll finally get three of them after waiting for a month and a half. My very first shell dwellers. Imagine the thrill. Hope they'll be strong, could only buy them online, and that they'll make aq colony.
Btw, thanks for all your informative vids!
That's really cool. Hopefully, you get at least one male and female! Fun to watch them re-arrange the tank. : -)
They arrived yesterday and I think they are 1 male - he's twice the size of the other 2, who like sisters sometimes hide in the same Escargot shell and because .. he looks dumb and the other two give the impression that they are 2 sharp kids and therefore must be females. Talking about males being dumb: I got cichlid pellets that come all the way from the US. Apart from being pretty big for these guys', the pellets FLOAT and KEEP FLOATING. Will my multies bother to go to the surface to eat them ?(!!!)
melodies2013 Hopefully you did get one male and two females. Yes, once they get comfortable in the tank they will go to the top. You may want something that sinks at first though.
When you feed the brine shrimp to freshwater fish, you are adding the salt water that the brine shrimp hatched in, is that ok for the fireshwater fish? I know salt are ok for freshwater fish but how much is not ok?
I do add the water to the tank, but I have mostly fish that don't mind a little extra salt (cichlids, etc.). My water changes tend to keep everything in line.
I see, thanks! Some people pour them into the net and rinse off the salt before they feed them to the fish.
ja ja,way you dont buy the hatshery from san francisco bay BS?is one of the best
I'll have to take a look at it!
I am setting one up for my saltwater fish do you think I can use the same salt I have for my marine tanks
The brine shrimp are salt water organisms so you should be ok using the same salt (might even be better).
Thank you for the reply I really appreciate it
When I was younger, and kept a 55g salt water tank, I dumped an entire package of brine shrimp eggs into the tank. Within 48 hours, we had literally 1000’s of tiny brine shrimp all over the live rock and sand. It was awesome. I did this before we purchased any fish. As we introduced a few fish to our reef, the population started dwindling. After the addition of our six line wrasse, we didn’t see anymore.
can i using the aquarium salt
Sure - I used it for a long time before switching over to the water softener salt.
Prime Time Aquatics thanks 4 the info
What kind of salt
Jose Rivera I’ve been using water softener salt without any issues
Where is the fish food video?
Will have to do one soon!
Would you ever be interested in a triops hatchery?
I'm not sure. At this point the LBBS feed all of my fry and I transition them to dried food as soon as they are ready. I have neocaridina shrimp to enjoy in my tanks as well. : -)
Triops are larger and cannibalistic. Usually unless you have many many many containers and you're home all day watching them hatch you end up with only a couple triops per batch.
Its been 3 days and still non..only eggs..am I doing it wrong or maybe the eggs which I did not hatch... I did the same ...and my goldfish fry are really hungry
Definitely try crushing some flakes until you get the brine shrimp hatched. If you set it up the way I explained they should be hatching within 24 hours (usually you start to get some within 12hrs). It could be the eggs. If they are old inventory from the vendor they may be bad. Also, they should be stored in the fridge after opening.
Prime Time Aquatics
I just did it again.last one had very few brine shrimp...maybe the shrimp I bought are not good at all...
Hatching rate is low .almost like 20 or 30 brine Shrimp..maybe the eggs which I got from Ali Express are not good at all..and tqx for you video..
I see some ppl on youtube dony use bubbles. With good result. So why use bubbels. Thanks
Without water movement I have found the eggs don't hatch well.
I cut my finger off.
Didn't you ask your parents for help first??
Quit crying, you got 9 more....
seems a lot of faffing with 2 bottles cut, lids and the like. There are simpler ways using just one bottle.
Maybe, but I have been using this method for a while and it works well, and the set-up is very sturdy with 1L of water.
Seems like a lot of salt in your tank.
Not really given the volume of the tanks and the small amount going in. Plus, we have a lot of fish that don't mind a little salt.
Warning!!!
I tried this recipe for my German Blue Rams.
Before, I had a pH of 7.2
After application of BBS, my pH shot up to 8.3!
I figure the baking soda is the only culprit capable of this spike.
For those of you with neutral to slightly acid loving fish, leave out this ingredient!
How big is the tank? I usually add a very slight pinch. I wonder if you have really soft water too?
Ugh for soft water fish you should net them or pipette the bbs into coffee filters and rinse with fresh water.
thank you, love seeing your babies eat..