This is as easy as it gets most seem to try and make it hard if you read the comments you will see others agree bit this is simply my method there are more options if you want
I’ve always fed the frozen brine to fish as a supplement to other foods. After watching your video will definitely try harvesting and growing live. Great stuff!
when we turn the lights off to our 150gal display tank at the lfs i work at as soon as the lights switch on you can see hundreds of fully grown mysis or brine shrimp im not too sure but we have a whole ecosystem in that 7 year old tank
I think for food, they prefer algae (spirulina) which you can buy cheap in powdered form, and even yeast, like for baking bread, in the baking aisle at the grocery store. So for growing algae it's good the bucket is in the sun, but it's probably not enough
Hi, since you have saltwater aquarium, it is easy enough with the cycled saltwater. Good job for raising bigger live food for the fish rather with the processed food. I also like to watch bbs grow as it test my patient and test the culture. 👍
Nice job on the brine shrimp grow out. I raise brine also. Ive had a hard time keeping large numbers of them. Everytime I add new bbs to my 10 gallon grow out, most of them die. I have videos of my grow out tank on my channel.
For me the best method for separating the eggs and shrimp is the 2 micro mesh strainers one captures the eggs and lets the brine shrimp pass through and the other captures the shrimp and lets the water pass through!!
I use the same hatchery to grow the babies for my exclamation point rasboras. Was considering growing them bigger for them, and now after seeing your video, it looks like the adult shrimp are almost as big as my rasboras! LOL, I didn't know they got that big! 😆 I till think I'll try growing them and see what happens. They are very cool looking as adults. Thanks so much, I seen so many complicated systems and knew there had to be a simpler way, considering how super easy that hatchery is to use. I wonder why more people don't use it? I love mine and have the tiny BBS every day for my fish. Thanks so much for the great video! 😊
I like the hatchery you've but I have never used it. Instead I have great success in decapsulating the eggs before putting them in the pop bottle for hatching. Having no shells and waste works well for me.
@@Rajaguru.aradhya777 I soak half a tsp of brine shrimp eggs in 50ml of tap water in a cup. Leave it for an hour so until the eggs rehydrate. I then add three ice cubes and 200ml of pool chlorine. The reaction produces heat so the ice cubes keep the eggs cool. Continuously stir the eggs and watch the colour change. They go from brown to yellow to orange in about 3mins. When they are orange they are done. I put them in a brine shrimp net and rinse the chlorine off under the tap. I then put them in the hatchery but you can feed them without hatching them. You can use bleach and the different concentrations will determine how long it takes for them to change colour. The pool chlorine I use is strong so it doesn't take long.
@@shadbonen Fairy Shrimp are freshwater, but very temperamental.. But, their eggs usually Require drying. - On another note. A major water change makes more of their eggs hatch from the original batch... Can do this several times from the original start up... Mine died a lot. So I changed water. And Wallah! 😂🎈
I use that as a separator, I had a terrible hatch rate using it. Normally. I use a bottle with an air stone. Then I use this to separate eggs from shrimp. I fill the inner rings with water then add my strained hatched shrimp and eggs to the outer ring. They swim to the middle and you don’t get any shells.
Wow Ive been looking for a simple set up and this video is perfect. I have the same exact tub. I was wondering what type of water did you use to start with. And do you add salt at all while they are thriving. Thank you so much for your video I hope you answer me I would love to try this. Thanks so much.
Great video¡ I am planning a food station with 3 things: phytoplankton, copepods and Artemia, I found the response of many questions,best regards from México 😃
Been watching a ton of these shrimp vids getting back into raising them your vid by far is the best on this hatcher just ordered one and the Tub growing them out fantastic they are huge. I got a good Gut load from Aquatic eco systems we used at the aquarium I worked at will feed that right before feeding the salt fish tank. How old are those big shrimp in the blue tub? How long does it take to get them that big. Any updates?? Thank you I am JAZZED LOL. Easy DHA Selco is the gut load. Trying to find a smaller bottle less expensive. On Aquatic Eco Systems Pentair web page.
They grow very quickly but requires the perfect informant. You will need daily sunshine as well as daily heat from the sun most important they will need feed and algea on the container willdo this best but if in a rush ground fish food will work if consistent
i have got one more question i hope you dont mind .... ive been asking a lot lately sorry .... today is the day 7 of the culture i started and almost 98% they all died . is it because of the amonia produced by the egg shells or the unhatched eggs ? when i put them in the tub does i have to fish out the egg shells ? if the salt consternation is high or low do they die? some of them survived they were doing the mating action yesterday but today i have like 5 of them in the tub and they are like tiny doesnt look like they have been around for 6 days anyways . if the gravity is 1.5 do they survive or if i put them in the tank with 1.0 gravity will they survive as i dont have refractometer i use the hydrometer and its difficult to go for 1.05 if you understand ? please help me one last time and i wont bother you with any question again ! sorry and thank you
So the sgg shells will definitely rot and polut the water you should hatch in separate container and never put shells in your grow out tub they perfer more salt than less in the wild they live in 1.025 to 1.030 this is there comfort spot
@@shadbonen thank you !! I will start a new batch this week, will try to get 1. Something ish as the initial gravity and then rot free environment… i have built up some algae in my another bottle i will use it for the food lets hope i can do it !! Thank you
As far as raising them outside, how cold would be too cold for them to survive overnight? It has been getting well in the 80s where i am but im worried about the temperature at night (about 55-60°)
Wow, lots of brime shrimps to last your long time. Could you please let me know where you got the eggs and food. I don’t know we’re is the abbreviation you mentioned in your video. Thank you for sharing
If you fill a container here in AZ with well water and leave it outside for a few days there's a bunch of lil things like this that will grow inside the container
Nice! I guess you keep the water level of the outside container low enough to prevent overflow from rain, and to keep your dogs/cats from drinking the shrimp water.
Thanks for sharing. I’ve experimented with this to varying degrees of success on a smaller scale. I was concerned about filtration, from your success possibly needlessly so. I have even purchased algae cultures with hopes of a self sustaining system but the algae never took off. Maybe buying some live sand or a bit of live rock might be useful as I don’t keep marine fish so no cycled salt water. I’m going to give this a try.
So no air stone or any kind of filtration? I am going to try this to feed discus. I've always raised baby brine shrimp for fry using just a incandescent lamp and air stone in a milk jug. I thought an air stone was a must.
Brine shrimp are the most nutritious immediately after hatching and before they absorb their yolk sac. Raising them does nothing to help make them any more beneficial to your fish and actually makes them LESS nutritional.
@@skdragon8845 Certainly. It is how I make my whiteworm cultures more nutritious. But the fact remains that brine shrimp are more nutrition BY FAR when first hatched than at any other time, gut loading or not. That isn't something I dreamed up, many research papers have been published about that very thing.
Wow thats so cool i really cool i need to try this 😍 the are so cute as big artemia i need to ask tho i will buy a basked for this do I just use normal water or water with salt ? When I will feed this artemia can I use any food i want ? And this white stuff u heve in the basket is it sand ? Or somthing i need
They are in salt water,pretty much any finely ground fish food works,and I just put sand from my reef in to make it easier to see and film its not really needed
@@shadbonen okey thx and how ofter do I need to change water in the basket? And dont i need any air stone for them? Or air sponge? And If I heve them outside and summer I need to take them in at winter right? And how long do this basked need to stay with water inside before I can add the artemia babys? How much salt do u use per liter for the basket sorry for all this questions 😅
This is the opposite to what I've read online & seen done. So what would you say the minimum size bucket I should use for growing them into adults size? I read from others a minimum of 5 gallons to 75 gallons! I thought that sounded far too much
Temp and specific gravity need to change very slowly for success a tote like this is perfect and if left in direct sunlight will grow nessasary algea for them to thrive grow and multiply
Hey! I wanted to know what happened to the shrimp when they die. Do they decompose in the tub and then are eaten by other shrimp or do they just stay there until a water change?
Umm, hi. I've just now hatched a good number of bbs and it's day 1. I'm planning to grow them into adults. Now, is it necessary to use an air pump in the tub in which I grow them. Or should I just let them be without it?
Glade it's working guess I don't know what can be done for the smell. I feed mine as they grow guess I have never tried to keep them any length of time so lifespan I can't say for sure
Got give a thumps Up on your salt tanks. I like your style of keeping things simple. Fantastic Video BTW - straight to the point and very Easy to follow. I'm just fooling with a tropical 10 gal, with 8 fish - flame dwarf Gourami & red eye tetras. (small sized) How much would you recommend to start with a teaspoon of eggs? My intent is to grow to adulthood & have a healthy source without being inundated with shrimp.
Is filtration needed, or does oxygen need to be added to the water like for daphnia? What about water changes? And lastly, what salinity do you use and does it matter what kind of salt is used?
They need no filtration no added oxygen I never changed the water do like 6 months and start over I use waste water from reef so 1.025 and any aquarium salt is fine they love dirty water and algea this will not be good as a display only grow out
Nice brine shrimp setup, it seems to have grown very well. May i know how do you maintain the water parameters for the brine? I just started to grown brine, it died 3 days later, not sure why...
I really don't have any tricks I use waste water from my reef water changes try keep 1.025 grind fine dry algea wafers for food otherwise I just kind of ignore it when it's outside I cover when it rains otherwise that's about it
Brine shrimp seem to do well without adjusting the water parameters. I used to keep "sea monkeys" in a jar when I was a kid and all I did was feed them and add water.
@@Jmatrixxxxxxxx yes you can:) if you want to be safe, you can have a little bucket or water can of water aging on the side to make sure any chlorine is evaporated out.thats what I do. You can probably just use water conditioner if you want, but I never do.
I have actually never cleaned it and have large numbers always to keep up with feeding however winter is coming here and will need to break down and move inside have to see how that goes😃
Hi there shad starting off in a 12 litre tank first but how much salt do i use got my tiny baby brine shrimp this morning so i put heater on it and air and light on then i will see if they take and make up your tote out side and transfer them to it but not sure of how much salt in the tote can you prosably help thank you from uk😀
So example 1/2 cup instant ocean salt per us gallon of water bit this is not exact you really need a refractometer or hydrometer to measure so you get 1.025 if your near a local pet shop they might sell you already mixed water or measure for you as it never mixes up exactly
You make it look soo easy , true pro But just reconfirming as I've never done this before you don't need an air tube in the grow-out tub ? Thanks in advance
1) How to change water, 2) how many days once, and how to change water. 3) Alot of alage and food stay in the botton of the tank, How to remove it. How to make sure that my tank doesn't died( crash) Couple of times, in the night everything was fine, but in the morning, everything of dead (crash).. ( food feed are yeast, spirular power). Please guide the group, what are mistake, or we should not do. Thanks for your support.
Thankyou shad for that waiting to get my 17 gallon bucket out of the 12 litre tank they gone big already 2 weeks old i just dont want them to get over crowded how many weeks when they breed thankyou shad 😀
@@livelaughlove869 18 gallon bought at Walmart but I'm sure other places sell them fyi any size works and the square totes also do well this is just what I picked
He mixes salt-and freshwater 🙄 I am censored by YT so i just say look at the " haopy " angelfsh. I mean the opposite now = What a great, well educated, fishkeeper with awesome hair!! Not even the least balding!!! Wow! Like those HAPPY freshwater fish!! 👊
Hi there how long does it take for brine shimp tank to cycle and so its water and salt in a tank /tote top up with water when evaportates do i do water changes and clean the tanks or leave the algae thankyou from uk cant put bs in until tanks and tote cycled thank you for videos shad 😀
I have actually never done a water change in the grow out tank or tub just add and harvest I am not a biologists but these shrimp seem to thrive on algea and waste temp as well as salinity does play a part but as long as theses are in check never had a problem
I have water salt brine shrimp no pump no filter in full sun the algea that grows is how they thrive actually only change water when bring in for winter otherwise top off evaporated water and that is really it easiest thing you can do
This is my 4th time trying to grow them. made green water and hatched thousands of them and now in have them in a new algae tank. So when do i start feeding them? I have green water without salt in it and yeast. I cannot get the fancy S. Powder. Or I can give them crushed pallets. Help me again?
The food isn't that important finely ground flake food will work once day even less if there is a algea growth on yhe tub walls bit this batch will not make it without saltwater
@@shadbonen the gravity is 1.5 ish … i used a hydrometer. And well can i feed them from tomorrow? The fish food ? There is algae but they arent going towards the algae rather swim towards the other side! Anyways i will post you if i can help them survive this time!
Hay Shad I have tried set up something like yours but failed miserable. My tub is indoor with air pump and heater. I also fed them spirulina powder. But they died within a few days of hatching. I am just scratching my head as to what is going on.
@@shadbonen Thanks for getting back to me. I don't have a light over it but at one stage I had it next to the window. Even in the winter sun, the water got heated up to 27 deg Celsius (I think that's about the low 80s in Fahrenheit). So I moved it away. Do you reckon I should put a light over it? I have a Tunze refugium light somewhere I can use. How many hours should I leave it on? Say from 10am to 4pm? Cheers, mate.
@MJSGHK so for it to work right you want it to grow algea when everything is working the bestits dirty looking and covered with algea so I would say as long as needed to do this
This seems so much easier than cutting up bottles and running airstones. Love that blenny too!
This is as easy as it gets most seem to try and make it hard if you read the comments you will see others agree bit this is simply my method there are more options if you want
I’ve always fed the frozen brine to fish as a supplement to other foods. After watching your video will definitely try harvesting and growing live. Great stuff!
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I feed twice per day flake ans once per day brine shrimp
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You really gave me a good idea to add corals to my brine shrimp 55 gallon aquarium. It had never dawned on me. Thank You for great inspiration.
when we turn the lights off to our 150gal display tank at the lfs i work at as soon as the lights switch on you can see hundreds of fully grown mysis or brine shrimp im not too sure but we have a whole ecosystem in that 7 year old tank
I have one of those hatcheries, works very well, 24 hours even at 20C / 68F and they keep coming for a couple of days
Fax. I switched from baking soda to aquarium salt and got way more! Had some hatched in less than 12hrs. Worth the buy
Thank you! I bought this and it is so easy! My betta is so happy!
yes ive got the hobby, brine shrimp kit and as u say its so simple, and works a treat ile avago at growing out too. cheers great vid.
I think for food, they prefer algae (spirulina) which you can buy cheap in powdered form, and even yeast, like for baking bread, in the baking aisle at the grocery store. So for growing algae it's good the bucket is in the sun, but it's probably not enough
They love algea but other forms also great
Do brain shrimps eat yeast?
I just got this too. User to have one with airborne and heater. Incredible how much effort I put in before, when this was available all along
Hopefully this will make all easy
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@@voluntaryismistheanswer I believe bulk reef supply shrimp hatchery
SO COOOOL! I'm excited to have my own thanks for the tips!
Hi, since you have saltwater aquarium, it is easy enough with the cycled saltwater.
Good job for raising bigger live food for the fish rather with the processed food.
I also like to watch bbs grow as it test my patient and test the culture. 👍
Nice job on the brine shrimp grow out. I raise brine also. Ive had a hard time keeping large numbers of them. Everytime I add new bbs to my 10 gallon grow out, most of them die. I have videos of my grow out tank on my channel.
For me the best method for separating the eggs and shrimp is the 2 micro mesh strainers one captures the eggs and lets the brine shrimp pass through and the other captures the shrimp and lets the water pass through!!
My shrimp hatchery is an old gold fish bowl...it's messy the air stone splashes salt water around but it works pretty good.
I use the same hatchery to grow the babies for my exclamation point rasboras. Was considering growing them bigger for them, and now after seeing your video, it looks like the adult shrimp are almost as big as my rasboras! LOL, I didn't know they got that big! 😆 I till think I'll try growing them and see what happens. They are very cool looking as adults. Thanks so much, I seen so many complicated systems and knew there had to be a simpler way, considering how super easy that hatchery is to use. I wonder why more people don't use it? I love mine and have the tiny BBS every day for my fish. Thanks so much for the great video! 😊
You can grow them for a week, they'll be perfect size by then.
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Very underrated channel and video! Thank you
I like the hatchery you've but I have never used it. Instead I have great success in decapsulating the eggs before putting them in the pop bottle for hatching. Having no shells and waste works well for me.
How do you decapsulate the eggs.
@@Rajaguru.aradhya777 I soak half a tsp of brine shrimp eggs in 50ml of tap water in a cup. Leave it for an hour so until the eggs rehydrate. I then add three ice cubes and 200ml of pool chlorine. The reaction produces heat so the ice cubes keep the eggs cool. Continuously stir the eggs and watch the colour change. They go from brown to yellow to orange in about 3mins. When they are orange they are done. I put them in a brine shrimp net and rinse the chlorine off under the tap. I then put them in the hatchery but you can feed them without hatching them. You can use bleach and the different concentrations will determine how long it takes for them to change colour. The pool chlorine I use is strong so it doesn't take long.
Those are some healthy feeders! I’m gonna try it.
Of course wondering if you ever dry out the sediments on a tray... And hatch that... Lots of breeding in the tote.
I have not
@@shadbonen Fairy Shrimp are freshwater, but very temperamental.. But, their eggs usually Require drying.
- On another note. A major water change makes more of their eggs hatch from the original batch... Can do this several times from the original start up... Mine died a lot. So I changed water. And Wallah! 😂🎈
Great informational video bro. Well enjoyed thank you.
The line is the poop shoot !! Hahah
Ok shad thanks for that and i need to put them in bigger tank in same water and try give them more space thankyou from uk 😀
Glad things are working 💪
Great video! I started the same setup from today. Just put one day old babies in a plastic container.
I use that as a separator, I had a terrible hatch rate using it. Normally. I use a bottle with an air stone. Then I use this to separate eggs from shrimp. I fill the inner rings with water then add my strained hatched shrimp and eggs to the outer ring. They swim to the middle and you don’t get any shells.
A nice informative video on bbs. Please keep posting!
Thank you for this nice video, the bucket you put them to grow in, do you use salt water?
Line that Shit goes out the back 😂😂😂
Thankyou for that and i cover the tote when it rains thankyou from uk 😀
I have brine shrimp and I am going to get fish anyway I like the video!"
Brillant so water salt heater algae top up ready thankyou so much shad from uk
I remember sending for my sea monkeys in the mail.
I did the same instead of hatching there 2 weeks old nearly and growing well from uk
Wow Ive been looking for a simple set up and this video is perfect. I have the same exact tub. I was wondering what type of water did you use to start with. And do you add salt at all while they are thriving. Thank you so much for your video I hope you answer me I would love to try this. Thanks so much.
I use waste water from from my reef when doing water changes I try to keep the tub at 1.025 to 1.030 as they don't mind a little higher
Brine shrimp 4 weeks 2 days now and there having babies there cuteeee thou
Great video¡ I am planning a food station with 3 things: phytoplankton, copepods and Artemia, I found the response of many questions,best regards from México 😃
Yes i thought it was a challange but its so easy and there so cuteeee thankyou shad uk 😀
Put a few in a display tank they are fun to watch
Been watching a ton of these shrimp vids getting back into raising them your vid by far is the best on this hatcher just ordered one and the Tub growing them out fantastic they are huge. I got a good Gut load from Aquatic eco systems we used at the aquarium I worked at will feed that right before feeding the salt fish tank. How old are those big shrimp in the blue tub? How long does it take to get them that big. Any updates?? Thank you I am JAZZED LOL. Easy DHA Selco is the gut load. Trying to find a smaller bottle less expensive. On Aquatic Eco Systems Pentair web page.
They grow very quickly but requires the perfect informant. You will need daily sunshine as well as daily heat from the sun most important they will need feed and algea on the container willdo this best but if in a rush ground fish food will work if consistent
good job with the shrimp.
i have got one more question i hope you dont mind .... ive been asking a lot lately sorry .... today is the day 7 of the culture i started and almost 98% they all died . is it because of the amonia produced by the egg shells or the unhatched eggs ? when i put them in the tub does i have to fish out the egg shells ? if the salt consternation is high or low do they die? some of them survived they were doing the mating action yesterday but today i have like 5 of them in the tub and they are like tiny doesnt look like they have been around for 6 days anyways . if the gravity is 1.5 do they survive or if i put them in the tank with 1.0 gravity will they survive as i dont have refractometer i use the hydrometer and its difficult to go for 1.05 if you understand ? please help me one last time and i wont bother you with any question again ! sorry and thank you
So the sgg shells will definitely rot and polut the water you should hatch in separate container and never put shells in your grow out tub they perfer more salt than less in the wild they live in 1.025 to 1.030 this is there comfort spot
@@shadbonen thank you !! I will start a new batch this week, will try to get 1. Something ish as the initial gravity and then rot free environment… i have built up some algae in my another bottle i will use it for the food lets hope i can do it !! Thank you
Never seen this type of container getting one to see the results
Awesome video, does the outdoor blue tub need aerated during growing? Thanks in advance
This needs nothing just sun algea and brine shrimp the rest is natural
@@shadbonen Thanks, ill give it a try growing without airstone.
Wow nice. The water in tub, have you added any salt to it if yes how much
Yes waste water from reef tank water changes 1.025 about
As far as raising them outside, how cold would be too cold for them to survive overnight? It has been getting well in the 80s where i am but im worried about the temperature at night (about 55-60°)
@frostiefrost5534 as long as it warms during the day and don't get lower than 50 at night should be fine
Wow, lots of brime shrimps to last your long time. Could you please let me know where you got the eggs and food. I don’t know we’re is the abbreviation you mentioned in your video. Thank you for sharing
Bulk reef supply online order
If you fill a container here in AZ with well water and leave it outside for a few days there's a bunch of lil things like this that will grow inside the container
Those shrimp love algea sounds like you have the spot
Nice! I guess you keep the water level of the outside container low enough to prevent overflow from rain, and to keep your dogs/cats from drinking the shrimp water.
Dogs taste once never again due to salt just check salt add fresh water as needed
This is awesome. I’m wondering, that tote you keep outside with the adult shrimp, does that thing smell?
Well it's outside but haven't noticed any bad smell had one in the house this winter seemed fine
is it ok if i have a bucket of brine shrimp without an air pump
That is what I have been trying to say your an emperor 😆
Nice video
Thanks for sharing. I’ve experimented with this to varying degrees of success on a smaller scale. I was concerned about filtration, from your success possibly needlessly so. I have even purchased algae cultures with hopes of a self sustaining system but the algae never took off. Maybe buying some live sand or a bit of live rock might be useful as I don’t keep marine fish so no cycled salt water. I’m going to give this a try.
So no air stone or any kind of filtration? I am going to try this to feed discus. I've always raised baby brine shrimp for fry using just a incandescent lamp and air stone in a milk jug. I thought an air stone was a must.
You can always add air if you prefer but I have never used any air or filtration
Brine shrimp are the most nutritious immediately after hatching and before they absorb their yolk sac. Raising them does nothing to help make them any more beneficial to your fish and actually makes them LESS nutritional.
But it is fun and it gives the fish a little chase but it is definitely up to the hobbiest
Enriching is a thing when they are raised to adults they are being fed high protein spirulina, and become super nutritional
Agreeing with @filip its called gut loading.
Have your heard about gut loading before feeding
@@skdragon8845 Certainly. It is how I make my whiteworm cultures more nutritious. But the fact remains that brine shrimp are more nutrition BY FAR when first hatched than at any other time, gut loading or not. That isn't something I dreamed up, many research papers have been published about that very thing.
Wow thats so cool i really cool i need to try this 😍 the are so cute as big artemia i need to ask tho i will buy a basked for this do I just use normal water or water with salt ?
When I will feed this artemia can I use any food i want ? And this white stuff u heve in the basket is it sand ? Or somthing i need
They are in salt water,pretty much any finely ground fish food works,and I just put sand from my reef in to make it easier to see and film its not really needed
@@shadbonen okey thx and how ofter do I need to change water in the basket? And dont i need any air stone for them? Or air sponge? And If I heve them outside and summer I need to take them in at winter right? And how long do this basked need to stay with water inside before I can add the artemia babys? How much salt do u use per liter for the basket sorry for all this questions 😅
This is the opposite to what I've read online & seen done. So what would you say the minimum size bucket I should use for growing them into adults size? I read from others a minimum of 5 gallons to 75 gallons! I thought that sounded far too much
Temp and specific gravity need to change very slowly for success a tote like this is perfect and if left in direct sunlight will grow nessasary algea for them to thrive grow and multiply
I keep brine shrimp as pets.
Hey! I wanted to know what happened to the shrimp when they die. Do they decompose in the tub and then are eaten by other shrimp or do they just stay there until a water change?
I would guess they decompose and are eliminated over time I have a tube outside and one inside I clean only once before season start winter and summer
Umm, hi. I've just now hatched a good number of bbs and it's day 1. I'm planning to grow them into adults. Now, is it necessary to use an air pump in the tub in which I grow them. Or should I just let them be without it?
I have never used one but I'm sure you could if you wanted
Does it have to be saline? Or normal tap water would do?
It would need to be saltwater roughly 1.025
Hi there shad my bbs are 3 weeks tomorrow growing good but the inside tank smells abit and also how long do they live for thankyou shad from uk 😀
Glade it's working guess I don't know what can be done for the smell.
I feed mine as they grow guess I have never tried to keep them any length of time so lifespan I can't say for sure
Hey Shad thanks for the video, any tips on how to collect the eggs they deposit to keep the culture going or to feed the babies to fry?
I have always just let them go they hatch and add to the bunch. As for feed they love algea and finely ground algea based fish food
Im giving mine fry food ingredient egg and yeast got it on amazon and ues green food for then there 1 week old growing well from uk 😀
Got give a thumps Up on your salt tanks. I like your style of keeping things simple. Fantastic Video BTW - straight to the point and very Easy to follow. I'm just fooling with a tropical 10 gal, with 8 fish - flame dwarf Gourami & red eye tetras. (small sized)
How much would you recommend to start with a teaspoon of eggs? My intent is to grow to adulthood & have a healthy source without being inundated with shrimp.
They hatch quick enough you probly could start there and add if need to
How long does it take for them to grow to a decent size?
Depending upon light and Alge they need lots of both to survive and grow
Congratulations on your video. The bucket has also salt water or it is just freshwater?
Saltwater
Is filtration needed, or does oxygen need to be added to the water like for daphnia? What about water changes? And lastly, what salinity do you use and does it matter what kind of salt is used?
They need no filtration no added oxygen I never changed the water do like 6 months and start over I use waste water from reef so 1.025 and any aquarium salt is fine they love dirty water and algea this will not be good as a display only grow out
Great video on how to build a bbs hatchery!
Nice brine shrimp setup, it seems to have grown very well. May i know how do you maintain the water parameters for the brine? I just started to grown brine, it died 3 days later, not sure why...
I really don't have any tricks I use waste water from my reef water changes try keep 1.025 grind fine dry algea wafers for food otherwise I just kind of ignore it when it's outside I cover when it rains otherwise that's about it
Brine shrimp seem to do well without adjusting the water parameters. I used to keep "sea monkeys" in a jar when I was a kid and all I did was feed them and add water.
Can you top off with tap?
@@Jmatrixxxxxxxx not sure never have tried
@@Jmatrixxxxxxxx yes you can:) if you want to be safe, you can have a little bucket or water can of water aging on the side to make sure any chlorine is evaporated out.thats what I do. You can probably just use water conditioner if you want, but I never do.
How often do you clean the bottom of that tub?
Did you ever have issues keeping large numbers also?
Any information is helpful
I have actually never cleaned it and have large numbers always to keep up with feeding however winter is coming here and will need to break down and move inside have to see how that goes😃
@@shadbonen alright I appreciate it.
Amazing job! You know if clownfish will eat grown up brine shrimp?
They definitely will aggressively
Yes yes
Very helpful video 👍
Great video, thanks for the info
very cool, thanks mate! cheers!
Very interesting, thanks for the video
The 32.5 gallon looks cool 👍
Thankyou for video i bought live shrimp from shop
Hi there shad starting off in a 12 litre tank first but how much salt do i use got my tiny baby brine shrimp this morning so i put heater on it and air and light on then i will see if they take and make up your tote out side and transfer them to it but not sure of how much salt in the tote can you prosably help thank you from uk😀
So example 1/2 cup instant ocean salt per us gallon of water bit this is not exact you really need a refractometer or hydrometer to measure so you get 1.025 if your near a local pet shop they might sell you already mixed water or measure for you as it never mixes up exactly
You make it look soo easy , true pro
But just reconfirming as I've never done this before you don't need an air tube in the grow-out tub ?
Thanks in advance
I have never used one and it's always been fine for me I'm sure one wouldn't hurt but I have never used any
What is the product called (the hatchery) and where can i buy it?
Brine shrimp hatchery dish and online at bulk reef suppy
Are u feeding the adult brine shrimps solely on fish flake food, or spirulina powder is also required?
I do both but once the algea starts to grow on the tube sides I feed alot less and flake food is the main source I us
Nice fish
1) How to change water, 2) how many days once, and how to change
water. 3) Alot of alage and food stay in the botton of the tank, How
to remove it. How to make sure that my tank doesn't died( crash)
Couple of times, in the night everything was fine, but in the morning,
everything of dead (crash).. ( food feed are yeast, spirular power).
Please guide the group, what are mistake, or we should not do.
Thanks for your support.
Hi just subscribed, they look massive, how long are they?
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Thanks for the vid
Hi there shad how do i transfer them to bigger tank with out hurting them the brine shrimp 😀
I always just scoop them up with a fish net if there big enough or could just take out water in tub so there is room and just pour them in
Thankyou shad for that waiting to get my 17 gallon bucket out of the 12 litre tank they gone big already 2 weeks old i just dont want them to get over crowded how many weeks when they breed thankyou shad 😀
That is an awesome device! Where did you say you got it? ❤️🇦🇺
Bulk reef supply online
Thanks
@Shad Bonen what state are you in for the climate? I’m in Texas so I’m curious if it’s too hot here.
South Dakota
@@shadbonen What size is that tub?
@@livelaughlove869 18 gallon bought at Walmart but I'm sure other places sell them fyi any size works and the square totes also do well this is just what I picked
He mixes salt-and freshwater 🙄
I am censored by YT so i just say look at the " haopy " angelfsh.
I mean the opposite now = What a great, well educated, fishkeeper with awesome hair!! Not even the least balding!!! Wow! Like those HAPPY freshwater fish!! 👊
Hi there how long does it take for brine shimp tank to cycle and so its water and salt in a tank /tote top up with water when evaportates do i do water changes and clean the tanks or leave the algae thankyou from uk cant put bs in until tanks and tote cycled thank you for videos shad 😀
I have actually never done a water change in the grow out tank or tub just add and harvest I am not a biologists but these shrimp seem to thrive on algea and waste temp as well as salinity does play a part but as long as theses are in check never had a problem
It seems to be ready when you are haven't waited ever and have had no trouble
Just bought sea monkeys barely doing fuck all so I ordered 25g of eggs and I’m about to go make an army so sea monkeys thanks
Great video! Nicely done
So you don't have any filtration in the tank? I would think that the ammonia would build up kill them?
I have water salt brine shrimp no pump no filter in full sun the algea that grows is how they thrive actually only change water when bring in for winter otherwise top off evaporated water and that is really it easiest thing you can do
Dirtier and algea filled water better they do this would not be for display
@@shadbonen how does the ammonia not kill them?
@@conman20000 r
The brine shrimp kove this environment
Awesome 👌
Cool sea monkeys
Hi there shad how much do you feed goldfish brine shrimp thankyou from uk 😀
Just a small pinch a day of fine ground fish food
This is my 4th time trying to grow them. made green water and hatched thousands of them and now in have them in a new algae tank. So when do i start feeding them? I have green water without salt in it and yeast. I cannot get the fancy S. Powder. Or I can give them crushed pallets. Help me again?
They only live in salt water if you do not have the salt at least at l.025 they will die in 3 to 4 hours
The food isn't that important finely ground flake food will work once day even less if there is a algea growth on yhe tub walls bit this batch will not make it without saltwater
@@shadbonen the gravity is 1.5 ish … i used a hydrometer. And well can i feed them from tomorrow? The fish food ? There is algae but they arent going towards the algae rather swim towards the other side! Anyways i will post you if i can help them survive this time!
Thank you for sharing Sir.
How long it takes from newly hatched to reach adults?
How often do you feed them?
I feed them small crumbs daily and seems like they grow fairly large within week and a half
Yeah they grow every hour so it would grow very fast
Wow Wala ako masabi Ang galing mo Kuys😇
Wow amazing
I am planning a follow.up vid to answer tons of questions
I bought some copepods for my mandarin goby do you think they will eat flakes instead of phytoplankton
Copepods are scavengers they will literally eat anything the can find but phytoplankton is always a good food for best results
Hay Shad I have tried set up something like yours but failed miserable. My tub is indoor with air pump and heater. I also fed them spirulina powder. But they died within a few days of hatching. I am just scratching my head as to what is going on.
One thing that really helps mine is algea from the sun is your tub well lit or getting good sun
@@shadbonen Thanks for getting back to me. I don't have a light over it but at one stage I had it next to the window. Even in the winter sun, the water got heated up to 27 deg Celsius (I think that's about the low 80s in Fahrenheit). So I moved it away. Do you reckon I should put a light over it? I have a Tunze refugium light somewhere I can use. How many hours should I leave it on? Say from 10am to 4pm? Cheers, mate.
@MJSGHK so for it to work right you want it to grow algea when everything is working the bestits dirty looking and covered with algea so I would say as long as needed to do this
@@shadbonen Thanks mate. I will put a light over it and see how it goes.
Mine hatched with no salt measurement
So any kind of grinned fish food pellets will work for feeding brine shrimps?
Yes I use a coffee grinder
How long does it take for the babys to grown into adults?
Usually couple weeks