Raise Brine Shrimp Indoors to Adults, easy and almost free
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- Hatching Brine Shrimp eggs? Just dumping the left over salt water, unhatched eggs and the last few shrimp? Here is a quick and easy way to raise those left over shrimp to adults using just a light source and some aeration and feeding spirulina powder. This is a collection of short videos spread over 6 weeks showing step by step how you too can be raising up your own adult brine shrimp for your fish. Come on, give it a try, its EASY!
I've scraped the eggs that gather at the top of the hatching container and placed them into a separate container just to see and they are definitely not just empty shell casings. I've actually found that they continue to hatch over time. Had a container sitting with all these eggs for over two weeks now and they're still hatching. There is no aeration in this container and it's below 70°F.
Good to know. I always wondered and I think I'm going to try it out too
Yeah exactly. People and their assumptions of "empty egg shells" and fear of "foul water". LOL! inexperiences
All great information, thank you so much! I figured there had to be a way to allow them to grow and get some reproduction going so you don't have to keep starting with purchased eggs. Quite an operation you have going there. Thumbs UP of course!
Very interesting. I raised brine shrimp to adults back in the 70s and used plain Morton Salt (non-iodized) and used a cheap flotation hydrometer to get the right salinity. I fed them boiled egg yolks pressed through a sieve and it worked just fine. Now in my late 70s I've gone back to fishkeeping and am trying to learn the advances that have been made in the Hobby. I'll try it the way David outlines in this page, already have the GSL eggs and spirulina powder and am awaiting delivery of sea salt. Have bred Angels and Rams back in the 70s... I'm currently trying to breed Red Melon Discus and feed them as much live food as possible!
Good for you! I wish we had the same Marble angels today that we had back in the 70s. They just do not measure up now. I just do not want to do all the water changes to try discus. Have you tried doing earthworms for the discus? Easy to raise in a small space and the discus could eat them whole. Uncle Jims Worm Farm has great small earthworms.
"spirulina powder" Ah, so that's what he said. Thank you!
I'll attempt to selectively breed them to live in freshwater, and then dry land. My great (x53) grandchild will give you an update 😜
That sounds awesome
I dont even remember what my comment was about.
You could just get fairy shrimp. They are basically freshwater brine shrimps.
How’s it going?
@@IdiotWithEducation xd
Hey, that was helpful! I've been throwing the "slop" out after a run, but now, I'm gonna re-use it using your method! Thanks!
you have them spawning and carrying eggs in there as well
Spirulina is a type of algae. Extremely rich in nutritional components. Used as a supplement by many people. Not as expensive as chlorella algae but almost as good.
Hi David - Thank You for sharing your way of growing Brine Shrimps.
I used to do it too - but my yeld was verry low. Out of plentifull of little brine shirmps after 48 hours I transwerred water without eggs (using big 200ml syringe) to bigger containet ant then changed 20% water every week. It took me always 4-5 weeks to grow them and out of full batch I usually eneded up with around 20-30 shrimp. It was pointles to me to grow them for more than a month just for one feeding. I kept mine in 3 liter jar - so maybe I didnt have enough water volume to grow them succesfully?
I feed them spirulina powder every 2 days and my jar was lod with lots of natural alge in it
and here i am watching this to see if i can grow shrimp to feed MYSELF and not FISH! hahahaha
ROFL nice one Kiki Bear
ChillWii , how do you know how they taste? So given that you know how they taste means you ate them right? I would say humans can be the nastiest things on earth. She was joking anyways ..
the fuck bitch
KiKi do you love me ? are you never ever ever going to leave from beside me ? and i need you..
@@kai1243 i do to
sounds good now. The shrimp will tell you how you are doing in a few days.
This is really fascinating. I'd never have guessed you could raise them this easily. I'll have to give it a shot! Nice video.
I get my eggs from brine shrimp direct dot com. But lots of places on line sell brine shrimp eggs. jehmco dot com is another fine company.
David Ramsey what are you supposed to feed brine shrimp?
Read the comments about 1" below this for food.
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do they breed and make there own eggs after you greet them started
Great video Dave! I may just raise some up to feed my bettas some meager foods.I never gone past 3 days past hatching. This is a great video.
Mine will have females with egg clusters. I would assume the eggs eventually would get released but I don't know if they will then hatch or not, or how long it takes for those eggs to hatch.
So would I, but I would need a much bigger water container! David
I add the left over brine shrimp water every day until I have 3-4" of water in the container. I never add tap water, it isn't salty and would kill the shimp.
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@@Silentjustin06 Thank you. Good info to see 2 kinds of phytoplankton that is actually small enough for the shrimp to eat.. Do you still keep a light on all the time with that?
@@djrramsey I usually do 12-16 hours on and 8-12 hours off. Almost like a normal day/night cycle. Sometimes I leave it on 24 hours a day if I'm being lazy but not often. I'm constantly culturing new phyto right now. I keep the brine tank and phyto culture on the same schedule. I've read constant light will crash the phytoplankton
my brine shrimp don't seem to grow and die after only a few days. Any tips?
I need something to go if I am going to try and help. Look at my indoor brine shrimp video from about a month ago and see if that helps you along.
David Ramsey i
use saltwater? of not they die,use aeration? if not they die.and warmth will be 25-28 celcius
RIP uncountable shrimps. We will always remember you in our fishes tummy
I have a couple of comments basically the same. I have an airline (no airstone, it clogs too quickly) for the containers inside the house. I don't use an airline outside. I let the breeze do the water movement, plus the containers are too far away to get air to them. An airline outdoors would most likely increase the growth and survival of the brine shrimp if you wanted to try it.
Thanks for the replies, but the container is capped and the water is not stirred by the breeze. Because I think uncapping enter insects or perhaps other organisms that may harm the artemia.
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I make my own every day. 6-8 teaspoons of salt to a gallon of water.
+David Ramsey Thank you for a very interesting and informational video, straight to the point and easy to understand! I have never been able to grow them that big, however I'm working on it. Do you have to add more salt water to the bucket when the water starts to evaporate? Or do you just add plain water to equalize the salt concentration?
+bobb9gt Only add plain water (dechlorinated). Problems getting the shrimp to grow outside are usually where you are not getting food to them. Either too much sun or too little and the algae does not grow. If you think that could be the problem, then give them some spirulina, pea powder, bread yeast for food. But only really small amounts or the water will get too polluted. Too much or too little food is usually the problem inside also.
curious: can they crawl out of the water? I had a shrimp that decided to go on an adventure (not a brine shrimp)...
Aroop Roelofs I had a crayfish that climbed out of the tank, down my kitchen counter, across my living room, down a flight of stairs and ended up under my bathroom counter! I still couldn’t believe he was a live when I found him and in perfect condition except for some dog Hair and dust bunnies being stuck to him.
And no, these cannot crawl out of the water. They swim upside down.
They cannot. They're not actually a real brine shrimp, regardless of the name.
Nice video mate :) Planning to cultivate some for seahorses's breeding lol, thanks for the valuable info. shared with us!
MUST READ MR. RAMSEY:
You mention your basement is cold thus stunting shrimp growth. I have ideas for you to run through cost-benefit analysis. For starters, consider placing the air pumps in a heated room that is upstairs and near a heat source, and then running the air line(s) to the basement tubs. I imagine all the air lines could be run together through the floor (shortest route) via an HVAC vent perhaps. Could go a bit further by braiding the length of the air lines together (like braided wire). The braiding will serve heat retention by eliminating surface area, and ensure the tubs will be the same temperature. Insulating the length of the braided air lines with pipe insulators will better conserve the heated air now being pumped through them. Or, leave the lines separate so each tub has different temperatures and thus different growth rates.Your tubs are now heated. The other idea would be to plumb a 1/4" hot water line into the hot water supply. A the end of this new hot water line, where your tubs will be, tree the line off so that each tub will have its own line. Complete by running each respective line inside and lengthwise along the bottom of its tub and capping off. Desired water temperature can be obtained by gently adjusting the amount of line submersion in each tub. However, each line could be looped back into the cold water supply as well. Using an old radiator from an old air conditioner, refrigerator, or similar in each tub in this loop system would be ideal further honoring your shrimp and fish. Considering you have electric near the tubs, the heating element from an old stove or dryer could be used in lieu of a hot water line. Using heating elements over hot water radiant heating is not as legendary and thus serves lesser achievement. If god-like shrimp mastery is sought, epic achievement can be had through the utilization of rabbits. That's right, rabbits, nature's fuzzy little furnaces. The basement floor area with a drain is perfect. Using free saw dust from your local mill as litter would be beneficial. Spread a one inch layer of sawdust on the floor, and sweep it up just before becoming saturated for an outside compost pile. Rabbits can also be trained to use litter boxes to keep things neater and more organized. Saw dust infused rabbit excrement would be an excellent compost for a vibrant garden and in turn creating feed for the rabbits. Organic Rabbit Compost Tea could be marketed to bring in steady revenue to cover start up cost before making potentially unlimited income. Being that a rabbit puts off 8-40 btu/hr you will need 100 six month old rabbits (to ensure sexual maturity) comprised of 2 males and 98 females. This will bring up the temp in the basement for optimal brine shrimp conditions during winter. Once set up, turn the lights low and loop Fly Me to The Moon by Sinatra. Being that rabbits have robust reproductive rates, 2 rabbits can easily turn into 1000 by year's end, so we'll base approximations from this fact. At the end of the first month you would have 750 rabbits. Such a historic endeavor requires a solid plan at this juncture. At the end of the first year as few as 50,000 rabbits can be had. If each rabbit were to be sold at $1, that would be $49,900 (minus the 100 starter rabbits). However, if these rabbits were kept another year for a larger investment return, one could expect to yield $250,000. This takes into account not every female rabbit will give birth every month and for litter mortality rate. Feeding a family of four one rabbit each per day would not affect this projected monetary figure. If not sold for $1 each, a high grade organic small dog food could be produced marketed. If 1 rabbit, at 1lb lean meat, were used per 40lb bag of dog food to comprise required protein content per serving (454g per bag = 15g/day for 30 days). If each bag sold for $30, projected annual profit would be approximately $1,500,000. But how in the world could 50,000 rabbits be housed in this operation? Funny you ask. If 8c.f. per rabbit is used, five tiers of stacked cages in ten 50ftx100ftx10ft pole barns all comprising just one acre is the answer. At 5000 fuzzy furnaces, the avg winter temp inside a northern operation would hover around a tolerable 40F. +20F if the pole barns are insulated. In a slightly larger pole barn a multi-tiered hydroponics system could be utilized feeding both the rabbits and your family in return. Your stellar self sustaining way of life can take you from frugal brine shrimp master to millionaire rabbit master. But why stop there. Spread your wings and fly, David Ramsey.
LOL! Are you totally insane or what?!
Lol I'm making a healthy living off it
Epic.
I have been wasting my life.
James Joyce
i bought some shrimp to eat with shell still on. When I was shelling them, many of them had lots of eggs, some pink-orange and some had black spots - can I hatch any of them? if so how?
I used to do this as well when I was breading Angelfish. The newly hatched eggs make perfect live food for angel fry they grow big fast feeding them brines.
Very cool! I am trying to replicate this so I have brine shrimp for my pea puffers.
awesome vid , i want to do this so bad
Sir brine shrimp tank in my room..so need air pump for oxygen? I want to keep them as pets.
You can use Algae for oxygen and food
@@connorsams182 how to make algae?
Thank you for the video. I am inspired to grow them myself. I love your narration BTW :)
Hi David. Firstly, thanks so much for the video. Very informative.
I did a hatch, following instruction on egg package (O.S.I Brine Shrimp). I waited 24 hrs, used a tiny flashlight and after 20 mins I siphoned as you do. In my tub I have a gazillion shrimp swimming, but also see about 1/3 eggs lying on the bottom. Should I somehow remove these unhatched eggs? Its now been 48 hours and they are still on on bottom. Will this spoil my water if I leave them?
Thanks to you and anyone who can answer me.
These days, people use those strong Magnets
(Neodymium or something..) to attract out the shells.
Maybe the Hatched shells will spoil the water.. The others may not foul the brine. They are likely still dormant and alive.
Why not just mix some more salt water. As the brine shrimp waste would be added into the container too?
Certainly can do that. My goal was to raise them to adult hood to feed to my fish with as little extra cost as possible. Thus using the same water, not making new water.
have you ever tried to grow a larger shrimp for feed? like ghost shrimp or bait store type "crayfish"? would love to see a video about something like that
I won honorable mention in the 4th grade science fair for the "Life Cycle of a Brine Shrimp" My set up was nothing like this.
David,
I see that in plastic container is a little bit green algae before you put nauplii inside.
Please let me know did you do it and, please, how you do feeding. I hear that you are talking about it aut I don't speak English very well yet and have a problem to understand everything correctly. I will really appreciate your answer.
Take a shot eveytime he says "just a little bit of spiurlina"
there breeding in there in that last shot well done
You can make up a new batch of water just like you would use to hatch brine shrimp and add that. Just be sure the temperature is the same or close. David
I feed the shrimp to my fish. They will not live very long in fresh water. David
New sub I liked your video :) Looks like a cool setup Thanks for sharing :)
Why does this guy sound like bubbles from trailer park boys and why am I watching a video about brine shrimp
The water is green from algae growing. Algae grows using nutrients in the water and light. The light I use is just a regualr flourescent light that is turned on all the time and is within 6 inches of the water. David
Does these grown up artemia produce cyst!?
Yes and I am told they will hatch and continue the process.
I don't do water changes, I start a new tub avery 3-5 weeks. Add spirulina directly. I just sprinkle the powder. Artificlal light inside. Flourescent light over the tub turned on all the time. 24 hours a day.
So by starting a new tub do you mean you throw your water out? Or do you syfin the brine out into another tub and add water? I’m trying to copy you.. I just wanted to make sure I understand the next step. Thank you.
@@glamwithafam8766 I start a brand new tub, from scratch. I do have a later video where I would take out about half to a gallon, filter out the brine shrimp and put them back in the tub and then dump the half to a gallon. Then do the slow daily refill until the container was 2/3 full. I would repeat the process. So it basically got a partial water change out every 3-4 weeks. I kept one going a year that way. At some point you will get the algae that sticks to everything. That is when I bleach and start over.
Very informative. ...just a little unclear about how you go from the little bit of water they where hatch in, to the 4 inches water in the tub.
I never do water changes during the 3 weeks. I am just too lazy. Without adding nutrients the water is going to be all used up in 3 weeks or so. I just start a new tub. David
Will the adult brine shrimp keep breeding and how long will that tank last for without water change sir?
@@parfaitamour1304 I feed the shrimp so I don't know if the shrimp eggs will hatch and continue the cycle. Other people have told me yes. I do roughly a 1/2 water change every 2-3 months. I have kept one going over a year, still producing adult brine shrimp as long as new baby shrimp are added.
GrowAndEatThis they r so tiny, if you do water change then u have to get the net and take all the shrimp out and move them to a new tank sir?
You are making this way too complicated. To do a water change put a brine shrimp filter over the top of a container (I use a gallon jug). Scoop out water you want to change (I use a peanut butter jar). Slowly pour through the net. The shrimp are collected in the net to be returned to the original jar. Then repeat until you have removed the amount of water you want. To collect fewer shrimp, place a light at one end, wait a few minutes, and collect water from the opposite end.
This is one of my favorite brine shrimp videos :) Ty for your details from start to finish! I love the idea and will so something similar with two spare 5 gallon tanks I have.
I dont get why people always say those cysts at the top are "Empty Egg Shells". LOL! Those are UNHATCHED cysts. Empty ones will fall bottom of tank if not bottle. Reason they STICK on top is because salt water has YET to be appropriately absorbed by those cysts. I have them too and by stirring, squirting down to the aeration, by the next day I wake up from sleep, those same cysts are gone leaving 1% from the 60% leftover stuck cyst and TONS of nauplii have hatched from it.
must be salt water. And a high concentrations.
How much though?
I use regular salt and regular out of the tap fresh drinking water.
Wait so just regular salt and do you think Fiji water will work for the shrimp
@@miti13439 no... Dechlorinate tap water by leaving it out for 3 days or using a dechlorinator. And your best bet is to use salt water solution from a pet shop (inexpensive)
thank you sir. your video is very useful armature fish breeders like me.....
Who sells live phytoplankton
Transfer Ukraine
Aquarium water would be fine, as long as it is a salt water tank!
Nice setup, David...I did something similar with my brine shrimp rearing efforts, I took a 10 gallon tank, added lift tubes in each corner to create a mild circular flow made from thin-walled clear PVC tubing that had a 90 degree bend at the top, and used kosher salt mixed with a teaspoon of Epsom salts and crushed coral in the bottom of the tank (about a handful). The water for growout was 40ppt of salt, so much more saline than regular saltwater. Kept it going for 6 months that way! Good Job!
Hi David great vids. I had follow your journey recently. I've started my own culture, but I'm having trouble to keep my bbs alive to adulthood. Been feeding them spirulina and sustain them with air pump. But around the 3-4th day they died. Any idea on how i can improve?
I recently had a new culture get started and dang if 3- 5 days they kept dying. Only thing I can figure out is the water was too cold. 66F. I added a heater and brought it up to 80F and they lived. Check your temps. Maybe that is what is off.
Correction! David, you said, “ 3 days”, for maturing adults, I think you meant 3 weeks. Brine shrimp grow fast but not that fast. Still it looks like it is well worth the effort. Thanks.
He did say they mature in three weeks, several times
I do soybean powder
where do you install the basketball court?
Can a 'normal' house bulb be used?
Would they grow faster with warmer water?
If so the bulb will help grow the Algae & help keep the water warm, what you think?
incandescent bulb will work fine. Just be sure it does not get the water too hot. If it directly against a plastic container be sure it does not melt the plastic and cause a fire.
Dave, for those of us cheapskates without a florescent light - will an incandescent light work?
@@tago8039 Remember the old incandescent light for 5 gallon tanks. The single skinny screw in bulb? That was my favorite light for this until the fixture itself just rusted away. So yes, gives light and some heat.
@@djrramsey thanks Dave.
Motivating video. I've been buying frozen bs (and bs fed spirulina)
and though it's not really expensive, fresh adult spirulina fed shrimp are more nutritional I've heard.
It definitely is! I thought just hatching baby brine shrimp would be enough for my fish, but the frozen shrimp is what they really go crazy over. I'm getting supplies today, thanks to your video. Appreciate it Dave!
Where do you get brine shrimp
Can i grind the spirulina tablets to make it spirulina powder will they eat it?
I did that for a long time. Just grind it into almost dust.
@@djrramsey thank you very much
Thanks for sharing. I am educating myself so I can make a hatchery, and also raise some. I have fry, and gobies. The fry need the baby shrimp, and the gobies need the adult, so this is great!!! Thanks
Hello I'm using another method of letting culture sunbathing. Grab a few hours of morning sun and very little afternoon sun, a shadow. The nauplii are 4 days old. I'm crumbling spirulina powder just like you said. Am I doing right now?
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Thanks for the very good informational video.
How long can hatch brine shrimp live in the little container ?
we are getting ready o brew some brine shrimp eegs for our angelfish fry, and need to knowhow often do we need to make more ? Daily? Weekly? etc
Rob Taylor I start a fresh bottle of salt water for hatching brine shrimp eggs every day.
David Ramsey WOW, this is gonna get expensive
we just bought the 100%brine Shrimp and a tiny little vial was 6.99 for 6gm... is this normal?
Rob Taylor Search for it online. I buy it by the lb but you can find smaller qtys. MUCH cheaper online. I get better hatches with online eggs also.
too much work,, i dump them in a big bucket outdoors. No food,, algae grows and even with rain the bucket is green and FULL of adult shrimp. Hint,, leave it alone and let nature take its course.
+David Ramsey I've followed your guidelines and so far is third day and I do see less brine shrimp than what I initially put in, but my question is, on your video you mentioned "is 3 days later " you meant 3 weeks for all that algae on the bottomto generate plus the brine shrimp growth or 3 weeks and a half for that ? am confused
Yes it is 3 weeks later
This is great. Can you make a video of your fishroom and some of the fish you are breeding. Thanks
Where did you get the spirulina powder.
u can get them on amazon or ebay or local food store. sometime walmart have them.
just got a bottle at the health food store that was pure spirulina powder. Plus you can get on line at kensfish dot con. Much cheaper, same stuff just not human grade. That is what I am using now.
hi again good sir, i love your videos and the knowledge you share, thanks so much!
are you familiar with aquaponics, id love to see aquaponic vids from you, i know you could design something great and really help advance the "industry" with your "home grown feeds"
Hi David. I have tried to hatch bbs and then put them in a big jar with salt water, give them food (spirulina powder) and also attach airline for oxigen, but none survive beyond the 3rd day.. I put them outside my house (I'm in Malaysia, the temperature is 26c to 30c).
I have also tried in another jar with the hatched bbs, without airline, food provided also. This jar is put in my house with constant temperature in a room. But still can't live beyond 3rd day. Please may I know what have you done differently to keep them survived.
What temperature range can brine shrimp tolerate? What do you find to be the ideal temperature for them?
Javier Duenas I get the best hatch at 76F - 80F. They hatch in roughly 24 hours and not a lot left over unhatched eggs.
Some fariation in temp and growth, but 3 weeks gives me adult brine shirmp.
That is too long... if kept properly and fed proper foods, you can grow 1st instar to adults in 6 days.... 1 thing GOOD brine shrimp breeders do, is not use the same hatching water to rear the shrimp...great way to foul the culture in the long run...
I hatch a lot of brine shrimp so I buy the big bags of road salt or pool salt.
Hi Dave, I want to thank you for passing on your knowledge, I've watched several of your videos they are great.
I raise Killies and have no LFS that sells adult brine shrimp, I want them to help condition my breeders.
I was having difficulty getting the shrimp past the first week or so. I think the brand of spirulina I purchased may have been too large for the young shrimp after they absorbed the yolk sack. I purchased a liquid phyto plankton (not live) for feeding reef filter feeders that seemed to help get them past the first week and onto the spirulina. Also it took about 3 solid weeks to establish algae on the sides and bottom of the container, I think this really helps shrimp growth.
Just wanted to pass this info on to help others.
How long do brine shrimp take to grow? Mine hatched a few days ago but they don't seem to be growing any bigger. They are just tiny specks. I have been feeding them powdered flake food.
3-4 weeks to adulthood at 78F to 82F. Once they get started growing they grow quickly.
this is a dumb question what is spirulina mind my asking nice educational video by the way thank you
I am growing betta fry. Do u know how ling it takes until these brine shrimp take to rinse off in fresh water???????? Plz help soon or the betta fry wil die
Totally off topic but you sound like Donald trumps brother or something
I tried but why did my baby brine shrimps die? well, most of them..prolly 90%..I use the same water I hatched them in. I fed just enough spirulina powder and they also have aeration. The orange coloration is clumped below..and when I take some of them out using a syringe, I see most of them are dead..what did I do wrong?
Maybe ;you have too many. Syphon out the dead ones so they do not destroy your water and see if the remaining ones keep going.
Feeding my shrimp to my orandas yes I am x3
David, you can put english subtitle on the video? Because the RUclips out meaningless words. PS: My English is weak
I don't understand why you hatch the shrimps from eggs and don't breed the adult shrimps that you grow yourself ?
I feed the adults to my fish. Eggs are not that expensive.
Hi David. Thanks for the great info! Do the brine shrimp reach adulthood about 3 weeks?
At that warmer temp, yes.
Do you think the shrimp are eating the algae you had when you put the babies in or do you think they are subsisting on that tiny sprinkle of spirulina?
I have started trying to grow them on a very small basis and I have failed miserably 6-7 times. They hatch, then die over a few days. I have light, salt, spirulina, switched to distilled water....no luck at all,. Can anyone help me trouble shoot?
distilled water will be a bad thing. pH problems and no other minerals in the water. For algae to grow you need some nitrogen and/or phosphates. If the shrimp are dying in a couple of days they are starving to death. I provide some of the initial nutrients by using the water the shrimp hatched out in. If you are starting with clean water add a small amount of fertilizer (liquid, powdered or bit of compost. Something to let the algae settle and grow. Try some baking yeast. That will hatch and move around. Something for the shrimp to chase.
Wait, but our baby brine shrimp the same thing as the sea monkeys you can get from your local Toys “R” Us or Walmart, and if they are different, can sea monkeys be a replacement for baby brine shrimp? Plz replyyyyy
STARLIGHT ABUTEEN same critters
Hi David! Your video is very impressive. I have a question please. Once you take the Brine Shrimp to the fresh water, what did you do with them after that? Are you gonna feed to fish or keep raising them in the fresh water?
Your water doesn't sound good. I will get green water, green algae growing on the sides, but never merky water. Always clear even when green. I would start over, why waste time chancing what could be bad water at this point.
David, in cultures without forced aeration, what to do to survive more nauplii? Because in my culture most of the time much of the nauplii die and a few left over. Was feeding with milk, now I'm with spirulina.
Blah Blab how are you making a living off of it? oh and david how much do the eggs for the shrimp usually cost for how many, i've never tried this and don't know much about it.
I do not sell any of the brine shrimp. I feed them to my fish. Google Brine shrimp eggs and you will find places to buy any amount of eggs you may want.
You may have to add a little more salt to ocean water. I believe they are in a higher salt percentage. Add a teaspoon of salt per gallon of ocean water and see how that does.
Sir plz suggest me what can i feed to baby brineshrimps to grow adults???
Spirulina powder, any powdered algae, powdered sweet peas, algae, baking yeast
Dave, awesome video! My local foster and smith salesman told me to use my aquarium water, vs tap water with salt added. What do you recommend?
I love your video! I am using a 5 gallon bucket from HomeDepot to raise my baby brine shrimp in. I have aeration from an air pump and I have lighting on it (one lightbulb with 13 W, 120 VAC, 60 Hz, 900 lumens) But I have a few questions. Is 13 Watts enough lighting to raise the brine shrimps?How many watts does the lighting have to be? Does your water get dirty after the 3 weeks, and if so do you recommend doing water changes? (I know you mentioned that you didn't do any water changes in your video, I just wanted your opinion on it.) I feed my baby brine shrimps spirulina powder too but I have a small 8oz water bottle, filled half with water and put spirulina powder in it and shook the bottle. Is that ok to feed the baby brine shrimps or should I just throw some of the powder in the bucket?
I have a question and I hope you don't think me ignorant. I remember when I was a kid we used to get sea monkeys which to my understanding was brine shrimp. I remember putting the brine shrimp in a 10 gallon tank. My question is if they are the same why do we have to hatch them in this manner.
You can hatch the brine shrimp any way that works for you. I need a lot of brine shrimp hatching every day so I use a concentrated method of hatching. Space requirements are minimized. It always bothered me about the shrimp that do not get use for food. They just go to waste. I do not like waste so I have come up with this method to capture the left over brine shrimp and raise them up for adult food.
Thanks! Easy & (in retrospect) obvious... which means that naturally we didn't think of using a generic plastic tub. I was trying to overcomplicate it... left over brine shrimp from feedings and no heater/complicated filtration? THANKS!
Excuse me, could you tell me how long is the adult artemia??
Because I tried to culture the artemia to adult,but the result isn't good.The weigh of them is smell than I predict.
My adults are roughly a 1/2" in length. Same size as those I have collected in the wild.
Thank you for showing this :) Do you know where I could get that spirulina powder, and do you know if adult Bettas would eat adult brine shrimp?
Yes of course they'll eat them. Any fish will eat these tiny shrimps