I tried two different providers of brine shrimp eggs, SF bay brand and Vpoint. They usually hatch into the first stage, but they are always dead and never move. They just end up rotting and my fry are left starving to death. I tried tap water, dechlorinated tap water, distilled water, cold, heat, no difference. They literally somehow hatch dead. Any ideas wtf is going on?
Brine shrimp die as soon as they hatch. Any ideas?
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I tried two different providers of brine shrimp eggs, SF bay brand and Vpoint. They usually hatch into the first stage, but they are always dead and never move. They just end up rotting and my fry are left starving to death. I tried tap water, dechlorinated tap water, distilled water, cold, heat, no difference. They literally somehow hatch dead. Any ideas wtf is going on?
Agree with this.
I use these simple hatcheries, no heat, or aeration required
When I start a new batch I use water change water from tanks, add salt, and eggs.
I starrt a new batch every 24 to 48 hours using just enough eggs to feed fry over those couple days.
Once the oldest the batch seems depleted, I toss what's left in an old preform out on the lawn, with some extra old water change water and salt, and a week or so its full of adults
Being so shallow, these old preforms grow algae/green water rather quickly the artemia feed on
I'm always amazed that even after it seems used up, there are plenty of shrimp, and eggs that haven't yet hatched.
Once salted, only water evaporates so all that needs to be added is a couple gallons of old aquarium water to keep them going, no extra salt.
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Yeah, that sounds like you're not using any salt in the water, they need pretty high salinity as hinted by their name. Or maybe you just didn't mention it? I found them fairly easy to raise to adulthood, every bucket I used would be full of ones that escaped catching them when babies.