BRINE SHRIMP!!

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Just a quick question with growing brine shrimp do I make the yeast into a paste form or do I feed them the yeast how it comes. Any help would be great.

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Just throw it in there. Sprinkle it finely over the surface of the water and allow the aeration to mix it in. Be sure you don't put too much as the problem with baking ingredients is that they can literally thicken the water as my roomie found out to our mutual dismay when she decided to put a heaping spoonful of flour into our first colony. Long story short that was the first of many attempts at adult brine shrimp we had to make before finally getting it right. I wish you the best of luck, these guys are the most challenging pets I've kept yet lol.
 
It's worth it once you get it down. They pop out babies non stop and soon you're setting up new brine shrimp tanks just to house them all. Makes a great source of live food for fry and adult fish
 
dont put too much in make sure to sprinkle on a lil bit in there as alistriwen said good lucky with the brine shrimp tho
 
What size is your growout container? I use a 200L drum kept outside so there is a lot of microscopic live food and algae the Brine Shrimp also eat. It is very easy to overfeed with yeast.
 
Algaes are the best food for brine shrimp. I usually scrape the soft green algae that grows on tank glass and on my java moss in small tanks into a bit of dechlorinated water and when the water is green I feed it to the brine shrimp. Good way to keep the tanks looking clean AND feed the brine shrimp.
 
Alistriwen;1444584; said:
Algaes are the best food for brine shrimp. I usually scrape the soft green algae that grows on tank glass and on my java moss in small tanks into a bit of dechlorinated water and when the water is green I feed it to the brine shrimp. Good way to keep the tanks looking clean AND feed the brine shrimp.
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Good idea! I'm going to try that...

I always used to get a 'Sea Monkey' kit from my sister for XMas. I've had the same ones for 2.5 years so far... not the same ones of course, but resulting generations.

When I tried to grow them with the stuff you buy in LFS, I couldn't get it to work! Those Sea Monkey kits are fool proof :)

I recently moved them from that tiny plastic container to a nice-looking ~1 gallon glass vase... hopefully they will reproduce more.
 
Mine go crazy with the right salt ppt and food. I give them a spirulina blue/green algae powder mix and the algae distillate I mentioned above. The primary colony got so large I had to start a second one after a week or so. Right now Im looking for a cheap larger tank to make a more spacious home for them to reproduce in.
 
I have them growing in prob a 30L tank that I found Any other good foods that I can buy? that isn't too expensive.
 
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