How many of us cultivate brine shrimp to feed our fish? (This is going to be alot of fun, I can tell...I can't see them, Pete can...)

Pete and I just started doing it for the saltwater tanks, but I'm wondering if it might be beneficial for some of our fry, as well.

Kim

I have done it on occasion to feed to the fry (mbuna). I didn't have an actual hatchery so it was a lot of trouble to get the bbs out without getting the unhatched eggs with them. There is a lot of good info out there if you want to get serious about doing this. I didn't want to go to the trouble so I just bought the frozen baby brine shrimp cubes.

I remember when I was young, I used to have a kit to raise sea monkeys. Remember those? I think they were brine shrimp!

I use to do it with an easy hatchery that I got off Klaus's website.Now I just do the decapsulated Brine.Its alot easier for me(Im lazy)lol

Exactly what are the decapsulated brine? Where do you get them?

I'm mainly doing this for the salt water that really love the live stuff, but it's obviously no big deal with the hatcheries, so it might be something I do all the time for the fry, too.

Kim

I have usually at least one bottle going, depending on the fry. I don't feed it to my herbivores but everybody else is just going nuts over freshly hatched BBS. Even the adults love that stuff. Throwing it in my SA tanks just makes them go bananas. Good Job

Decapsulated Shrimp are just that ,shrimp without the capsule.basically what happens is that the shell is removed from theshrimp with chemicals and therefore results in an instant hatch when they hit the water.They are more nutrient than a hatched shrimp because they dont use up all their energy to break through the capsule.I get mine from a guy out of winnipeg

Derek

Well, I'm not sure whether mine are decapsulated or not, but the directions said it would take up to 40 hours to hatch, and they were free swimming in about 12 hours.

Is there a need to add salt to the water you hatch them in?

This little gadjet we got has a bottle on top, and the actual hatchery is black. The brine shrimp swim up into the top towards light and you can just remove that section to feed with, then just put it back on the hatchery and more will come up to the top.

Kim

Kim

Then you have regular BS ! On the Floor Laughing

DErek

I've got lots of BS! blinky

I'll try to find some of the "instant BS" like yours, Derek...You're my idol! Gimme an A!

Kim

I don't know about Ottawa, but we Americans have plenty of Instant BS in Washington!!! blinky