The Ultimate Guide to Hatching Baby Brine Shrimp
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2024
- Here's my step-by-step guide to hatching brine shrimp using the kit by San Francisco Bay Brand.
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Hey now! One at a time. I am still trying to make my infusoria culture work haha i had no idea you could use epsolm salt to raise the pH. I’ll definitely have to try this out. Thank you for your time and efforts in making these videos
Do you know if I could use sea salt (no iodine) instead of aquarium salt?
And was there a point where you ever dechlorinated the water? Or did the chlorine just eventually evaporate out?
So to bring some info I learned from making saline solutions for axolotls (ruclips.net/video/IEptV3djIk8/видео.html), baking soda seems to raise the pH and KH (or buffering capacity) more, whereas Epsom salt raises the GH (or water hardness) more. So you can try experimenting on which one to use, depending on what your tap water needs. For example, my tap water is already at a pH of 8.0 but is pretty soft (low GH), so I found much higher hatch rates when I added Epsom salt instead of baking soda. However, some people may benefit from adding both chemicals!
As for non-iodinized sea salt instead of aquarium salt, it should be fine. You may just need to tiny bit less of it since aquarium (or rock) salt comes in bigger chunks and doesn't pack down as densely in the measuring spoon as sea salt.
Also, I never dechlorinated the water because the TFH article from Gary Lange mentioned they actually add a bit of chlorine to help increase the hatch rate by killing off any undesirable bacteria/microorganisms that may have gotten past the processing procedures. Other articles (edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/FA/FA02300.pdf) mention that it may help thin or remove the outer layer of the egg, also helping you to get a higher hatch rate. That being said, lots of people recommend using dechlorinator with the water, so maybe try both methods and see if you get a difference. Let me know what happens if you try it. :)
@@GirlTalksFish Oh wow thank you. My water is high in GH (literally 16) while my KH is at 4, so I might go with baking soda instead. Cory from AqCoop also stated that chlorine helps break the egg membrane. I just wasn't sure if you were supposed to ever dechlorinate it at any point after hatching. Seeing that it worked fine for you without dechlorination, I'll try it out!
@@neighborhoodman323 Awesome! It's super easy; hope you have a lot of fun with it. :)
This is SUCH a clear and concise video. I was on the fence about trying to hatch baby brine shrimp for my betta but this has me convinced I can do it with relative ease :)
"Get that axe away from her" LOL! I have the same hatchery and, incidentally, 2 baby honey gourami fry. Having some issues sourcing eggs for a realistic price but am encouraged to do so as my babies are not growing very quickly at all. Excellent guide - you really have wonderful editing and content. I'd subscribe if I hadn't already!!
Thank you so much!! Haha, I like to insert a little humor here and there when I can but my husband's more of the natural comedian in our family. Hope your honey gourami fry get big and fat from BBS... that's so cool that we're both parents of gourami twins! #twinning
Here's another tip I learned about not so long ago. If you want the brine to grow bigger - and thus keep them alive for a longer period of time - here's what you could do. Get yourself a small tank and fill it up with the salt-and-baking soda water mix you use for your brine shrimp in the bottle. Ya know, the usual stuff. Hang a bright light above it, one of which you know WILL grow green algae in no time. Placing it near a window will enhance algae growth even more. Add an air driven sponge in it for a bit of filtration (beneficial bacteria that live in salt water will eventually populate it). Give it time for the algae to grow. This growth can take up to 3 weeks or even longer, depending on how much light you're giving it and how much algae you want. At some point you'll see the water level drop due to evaporation - which is of course normal: do not add more of that salt-and-baking mix! Minerals don't evaporate, so adding more minerals would make your water toxic for any life. Just top it off with demineralised water. Keep an eye on the PH level, and if needed add some more baking soda to buffer the PH again. Hatch your brine shrimp as you would always do, using any method of your liking (I prefer the DIY method) and add them into that tank that is now growing their beloved food source: algae. If you think you don't have enough algae: you can always feed them Sera Plankton, for example. Note: since brine shrimp also produce poop (more than you think), and you're planning on keeping them until adulthood, you'll need to do water changes in order to keep the ammonia levels down. Now, since this is salt water, no aquarium plants or pond plants will be able to survive in it, so they can't remove the toxins as they would in a soft water aquarium. Use a strainer that is dense enough to catch the brine, carefully poor the water out of the tank thru this strainer and refill it with a fresh batch of that salt-and-baking soda water mix (try to have it at the same temperature as the water you pored away). The algae - and beneficial bacteria will still be sticking to the windows and in the sponge, but if you want to be safe you can feed the brine some of that food I mentioned before.
This method is handy when your fry is getting a bit too big for freshly hatched brine. Or for fish that just love live food without it having to cost you handfuls of money every week.
Going to try this method myself, as an experiment. ;)
Cheers.
I love that you do these things for yourself when making your videos , you make such helpful videos, thank you.
My pleasure! I try to only make videos about things I've tried myself, but I definitely learn a lot from knowledgeable veterans in the hobby. :)
Just made my first attempt and was highly successful. I used a 3 gallon juice dispenser I had laying around. My water temp was at about 72°, i added about 5 tbs. of salt and majority seemed to have hatched in about 24 hours. Thanks for the help you tube.
Wow, Your videos are just amazing. the way You pass over the info..so clear, so effective....Keep up the good work and Thank You!
Oh my goodness, thank you so much! Let me know if you ever want to see me cover any other topics.
I'm new to fish and I'm doing research before I bring home some balloon mollies 🙂 I have to say that your videos are super helpful, relatable and make keeping fish much simpler then some other videos. You have helped me be a better fish owner ❤
Well, I'll be watching each of your videos from here on. Delightful :)
Oh great, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Hopefully it will encourage people to try new things like hatching BBS. :)
Really good video, very clear directions!
I also had some leaking with the same kit until I took off that ring left on the bottle neck from the cap. Pull that off and no more leaks.
I use two of those kits to have fresh bbs every day, it’s an awesome kit! Thanks for sharing!
Woah, I had no idea that could be causing the problem! Thank you so much for the heads up; definitely going to pin this at the top.
Another awesome video it always seemed like a pain to do this when I would hear about it but you made simple and easy thanks again for another awesome Vid much love and aloha 🤙🏽🐠🌺🐠🤙🏽
Oh I'm so glad! Yeah I can't believe how quickly I can whip up a new batch of BBS whenever I need it. And it's kinda fun, like a little science experiment at home. :)
I just want the shrimp as my children😳
That's what a sea monkey is!
me bout to buy myself “sea monkeys” for my 28th birthday
this is great!! thanks
*Have you ever hatched baby brine shrimp before, and if so, how do you do it?* Comment below to share your experiences, and subscribe if you want to see more this videos like this! goo.gl/4q2idY
Great beginner tips! Always enjoyable watching your videos
Hah I feel like there's a ton of beginner fish tutorials out there, but not many advanced level DIY channels like yours. You're a real rarity!
Your too kind! You have a great presentation style and I really do enjoy watching your videos
Thank you for your sharing🌸
My pleasure! Good luck with hatching your BBS. :)
I really *need* to start doing brine. Between my platy fry and my shelly fry, I have plenty of fish that would benefit from it.
Yay, it's super easy! I found it easier than infusoria because they're bigger so you know if you're successful or not. Congrats on the many fry! They'll grow super fast on BBS.
Nice video it is so good to know so much about baby brine shrimp
Yay, I'm so glad it could be of use! I definitely learned a lot myself in the process. :)
A Gamer's Wife nice it is good to finally see a good brine shrimp video
feeding live brine shrimp is the cleanest form of feeding I have found. They stay alive in the aquarium for about an hour which gives my fish plenty of time to hunt and eat them all. No lodged flakes or pellets rotting etc.
Great video watching from india love you keep going
very nice info and learning video
Thank you! I had a lot of fun learning about the process.
Thanks again for a good video. I learned a few things in watching this video. I believe that you are hatching with 2 Tablespoons or 1-2/3 Tablespoons for 1 liter (where you marked the bottle). So if I understand you right, that's the recipe that seems to work best. I got the Jehmco hatchery less than a year ago but it didn't take long before the thing leaks (drips) at the bottom valve. I keep a lid under the thing to prevent a mess. So based on my personal experience, I don't recommend that hatchery. Thanks Irene!
Seems pretty easy! One day i Will do this
Yeah, it definitely wasn't as hard (or as messy) as I thought it'd be!
This was a great video!! You are such a natural!! Love the info!! 😁💙🐟💦
Thank you so much! I was kinda nervous when the video turned out longer than I had planned, but there was so much good info to share with y'all! :)
It was excellent. 💦😁❤️💦
DebTim A CANADIAN Girl 🤗🤗🤗
The timing of this could not be better! I have thought the same exact things and have been hesitant...but it is time to try them because I am working with sparkling gourami fry...the struggle is real. I am right there with you on that. This was great!!!
Oh that's awesome! The first two weeks, my honey gourami fry were just so tiny... but by weeks 3 and 4, I couldn't believe how huge they became. Best of luck with your sparking gourami babies; glad I could help!
Look. I gotta tell ya. I love your thumbnails haha ✌😍
Lol, thanks! Some weeks I feel totally stumped on what to use for my thumbnails (like for my next video), so glad that some of them look ok. :)
@@GirlTalksFish They are a good unique that's for sure! ✌😍
Thread tape also helps with leaks in bottle
If you have a leak where the bottle and base connect, just use some plumbers tape.
Just got some Killi fish at a swap and some micro worms,checking out some alternative foods. Question do you think they would help my baby bristle nose?
amazing
Hi Thanks 4 making this video.
Do u have one or know how to raise bbs to adults?
I personally haven't done it before, but it sounds pretty easy! Here are some good articles that outline the process:
1) www.thesprucepets.com/growing-out-brine-shrimp-2924614
2) www.brineshrimpdirect.com/about-us/frequently-asked-questions/what-guidelines-culturing-brine-shrimp/
Hey how do you get your bbs shells to float? Mine end up sinking usually. Coming out with the bbs. Any tips for me?
I culture springtails they are very easy to feed you feed them uncooked rice but they float on water so it works for surface feeders
Ooo, great idea! That sounds awesome. :)
@@GirlTalksFish it's cheaper to do that as well you dont need to keep buying eggs
plumbers teflon tape would make a leaky bottle neck waterproof
Do you have to buy a hatchery because I have seen videos of people just putting a air stone and using brine shrimp nets to separate them?
it helps if you take off the ring around the bottle cap
YES! I didn't realize that until after I had released the video.
Hello Irene, So did you feed the famous Murphy at the store? ❤❤❤
Hey just wandering is this for saltwater
Which band do you use
The funny thing about this is I hatched these as a kid as pets and it was not this complicated. If u guys are on the fence u can do it! I did it at like 13 years old haha
can you freeze the shrimp water in an ice cube tray....and feed fish frozen cubes of shrimps?
How do you keep the bottle water warm.
Is the lamp a must?
I use a quarter-inch drill the drill one hole and the cap while it is installed on the clean empty Bottle. I use a regular old soldering iron and melt a hole in the bottom of the bottom about an inch and a half DIA. That way it stays really stiff. Then I melt two small holes. I run a wire through the holes so that I can hang the whole thing on the side of the tank. The air goes in very slowly otherwise you beat your little baby brine shrimp to death. Whenever you want to put Airline into a container cut a diagonal slice it pulls through a hole easily. Install a short piece of stiff tubing and then that Airline can't be pulled out very easily at all. Let it hang on the side of the tank have two or three going at once if you have big tanks. Don't buy a stand just hang it from the tank. Baby brine shrimp eat algae which will grow on the containers as long as you keep cycling through hatching solution they will be a little slime for them to eat. Good luck
How many weeks i have to feed fry the brineshrimp
Good idea but i am a bit lazy i will just use a box and salt eggs water 😅😅
Am i missing something? how did you drain out the water with the bbs at the end? I thought you had a check valve on there to stop reverese flow
Good question! So the airline tubing connects the air pump to the check valve and then another tubing connects the check valve to the bottom of the hatchery (just ignore the green air valve for now). In order to drain the BBS out, I disconnected the airline tubing connected to the check valve (that leads to the bottom of the hatchery). Then the BBS just flows out of airline tubing at the bottom of the hatchery. Hope that makes sense!
Ise plumbers tape on the threads of the bottle for a better seal.
What if you want to grow them longer so that they’re bigger when you’re ready to feed and you don’t have to do the process as often? Is that possible?
What a coincidence. Is Larry Brown the rainbow breeder from the Midwest? I'm ordering fish from him.
What happens if they are kept at room temperature? I have been keeping mine at room temperature for over a year and they still hatch. Would it be bad for the fish?
I've just got brine shrimp egg's and I'm only 12, so i have NO idea how to care for them, currently i have them in a glass bottle with fresh spring water, and a few pebbles, and there only a few minute's old egg's, can you please tell me how a kid can care for them?
Well i got a crappy 1 gallon tank with a light bulb and a air pump
Can I use it for hatching?
Yeah, for sure! If you're using a 1 gallon tank, you can just use a turkey baster to suck up the baby shrimp from the bottom of the tank (or siphon them up using airline tubing) after they've hatched.
A Gamer's Wife thanks :D
Please make a video on how to BREED brine shrimp, please
Omg that shrimp is HUGE!! What is he????
Do we have to do a large water change after feeding the fishes with the brine shrimps? Because it's kind of turning the water cloudy isnt it?
Good question! So my adult fish have always hunted every single one down. However, if you're feeding fish fry and there are so many baby brine shrimp that they can't eat all of them, I wait until the excess BBS die and sink the ground and then I siphon them up with some airline tubing. 👍
@@GirlTalksFish : Cheers...thank you for the feedback😊
My eggs were room temperature in a dry pouch when I got them, does that mean that their no good?
Will eggs still hatch if they weren’t stored in the freezer?
I believe their hatch rate will decrease if you don't use them up within a certain amount of time, but I've never tested this myself. Check out brineshrimpdirect.com for more information. 👍
You should add a little spirulina powder to increase your hatching rate
Thanks for the tip!
I had brine shrimp when I was a kid as pets and now they're feeders. Traumatizing 😭😭🤣
Lol
Just so you know Brine shrimp eggs can lay doormat for 2 years or more and the Temperature is often above 30c as long as the long term humidity is right you can store brine shrimp eggs for ever, they lay doormat in dry salt lakes for up to 10 years sometimes and its because there at the right depth of mud in the salt lake that when it comes to the next rainy season they hatch, and the main reason they have survived for this long is location, low water table /rainfall high salinity, its a bit like Cidadas, there not every where but when they bread in the right area they are prolific 🐟💙🐠💙🐟🐠🐟💙
Can you raise the brine shrimp so they can actually live your aquarium?
no they won't as brine shrimp lives only in salt water (brine solution). In a freshwater aquarium they will only live for just a few hours and then die off
This is what I use. It works great for me.
Woohoo, another vote of confidence for this method! 👍
Hi , can I have the actual name of the hatchery machine company? Jamco or something like that and where can I get it? Thxs
Sure thing, it's the description! Here's the product I used by San Francisco Bay: amzn.to/2QDbUm0. The one at the end of the video is by Jehmco.
what if some of the egg shells are stuck at the bottom??
Tried to DIY this. Eggs that didn't hatch sank to the bottom and drained out with the BBS. I didn't have the 2-net sieve to separate them. It was a real separating them manually. Not even that successful.
I don't really want to do this. What about cyclops isopods and baby scuds?
This actually seems cleaner than using microworms... I stopped splitting cultures due to mold problems, and just let the whole thing die out.
where do I storage the brine shrimp eggs????
Great question! You can store them in the refrigerator for 3-4 weeks or in the freezer for several months.
If i dont have an air pump will the shrimp still hatach?
Maybe? I've never tried it before, but they probably just won't have high of a hatch rate.
They do
or put the eggs in the fridge 24hr prio to hatching if frozen, same hatching time afterwards as usual.
Do they live with out oxygen pls?
Good question! They do require oxygen, which is why I use an air pump.
Why is it not needed to dechlorinate the tap water?
no you don't need to
don't know what you said about temp wire = take, tape? don't know what a check valve is or how to keep temp at 80
Oh, I taped the temperature probe wire down so it wouldn't accidentally slip out. A check valve is used to prevent water from draining down the airline tubing to your air pump if the power goes out or the air pump is shut off. And finally, I used a lamp with a halogen bulb to keep the water heated. You can adjust the light closer or further away to keep the temperature at 80 degF. Hope that helps!
I'm pretty sure you're supposed to remove the plastic ring along with the lid.
15 dollars is a good price. the way this works 15 dollars works plus you get the shrimp and salt mix,, no hydrometer needed no worry about salinity
kosher salt works as aquarium salt its alot cheaper than aquarium sand
Yes, great suggestion! Aquarium salt is still just sodium chloride but with larger granules, like rock salt.
The best EASIEST way to do it is just buying the "Brine Shrimp Hatchery Disc by Hobby". No mess, no hoses/air, no heater and it separates the shrimp and from their eggs.
I just go to mom and pop store and buy from their tank and add to 2.5 gallon
Ooo, that's so convenient! I wish my local fish store did that!
One way to stop leaks is adding teflon tape around the top of the bottle, I went around it twice and made it tight. No leaks.
IK I am commenting TOO LATE, but u could try using a rubber gasket. This could stop the leak and u will not have to screw it too tightly. It is JUST A THEORY though.
Fun fact the eggs last for over 10 years
Your information is incorrect in the part you said epsom salt raises ph! It doesn't. Please research properly on such in intricate subject.
Often, fertilizers that contain sulfate are considered acidic and can easily drop the pH of a growing medium.This is rarely true in soil less growing media. Consider Epsom salt, which is magnesium sulfate. Epsom salt is used by many growers as a fertilizer supplement to provide magnesium and sulfate when they are low in the fertilizer solution.
Often, plants green up after Epsom salt is applied and several growers use it since magnesium and sulfate are low in most water sources and many fertilizers contain insufficient levels of both elements. But does Epsom salt cause the pH of a growing medium to drop?
I don't know why I'm watching this 🙂
"Baby brine shrimp eggs"? You mean just brine shrimp eggs?
pretty sussy that Girl Talks Fish is never in the same room as A Gamer's Wife
Why do people do this instead of buying a small 1 gallon saltwater fish tank? You could keep the shrimp alive and let them reproduce and spend the same amount of money. Legit question. I'm confused as to why people do this plastic bottle thing.
Hi, what's a gamers wife ?
You should ask your husband to make a RUclips Chanel and make his name “a fish keepers husband” ha