30 year old brine shrimp eggs

[misterjose23]

Well if they do hatch, buy them a beer! They'll be old 'nuff do drink!!

hahaha.

 

[sean-820]

i had soem eggs that were probably at least 20 years, They didnt hatch at all though, but i dint use a heater, just a small lamp since i didnt have a spare heater.

 

[AquariumNerd]

simular to the triop.

 

[Bass Master 99]

do not even wast your time they wont hach

 

[chefjamesscott]

I'll give it a go.

For the record though, I have seen dried up snail eggs stuck in a net hatch after 15 years when reintroduced into water. True story.

now that is a piece of information that I find most helpfull very interesting now to try something

 

[Rikesh]

Add some Javel to the eggs to decapsulate them!!

 

[Wulfonce]

I'm trying it again. This time with a higher temperature (87F), lower ph and aquarium rock salt instead of table salt. Also I hydrated before adding the salt. If it doesn't work this time I'm giving up.

I'll post the results in about 20 hours.

 

[Dragoner]

30 years on the shelf... reminds me of the time I freed a total of over 7GB when I used disk clean up once... I'd be amazed if they hatch...

Well if they do hatch, buy them a beer! They'll be old 'nuff do drink!!

Lolz...

 

[Rikesh]

Good Luck
I'll wait

 

[Wulfonce]

I think its working!

I woke up this morning to find the temperature at 92F, the vintage heater im using cant hold a reasonable temperature if it tried. However some of the eggs look different. A few eggs (not many) are lighter in color and are no longer round. You can see the darker egg part as well as a lighter clearer part attached to the side of the egg. Hatching brine shrimp? I have no idea what its suppose to look like at this stage 13 hours in, and if I didn't already say it in a previous post, this is my first attempt at hatching brine shrimp. I just discovered them in my dads crawlspace and decided to give it a try.

11 hours to go!