I was wondering if anyone on this site know how to take newly hatched brine shrimp and raise them to become adults? I would love to learn how to do this. Any advise or assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
How do you raise Brine Shrimp to Adults?
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what do you feed them? I have heard of them eating the yeast on rolled oats...is that correct? Are there any other items that would provide quality food for the brine so that they can grow healthy to adulthood?
For me hatching them is easy, but keeping them alive past about 3 days is much more difficult. Any help and guidance would be greatly appreciated.
I have been using the 2 liter soda bottles and an air pump to hatch the brine shrimp.
For me hatching them is easy, but keeping them alive past about 3 days is much more difficult. Any help and guidance would be greatly appreciated.
I have been using the 2 liter soda bottles and an air pump to hatch the brine shrimp.
I heard that the use of rolled oats also works as food for the brine. I heard that it is the yeast from the oats that the brine feeds on. Has anyone used this before? Does it work? All advise and any personal experience that you would be willing to share would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Hey Ya,
I used to have sea horses and had to constantly hatch them as food. I then thought I'd try and grow them up. I used normal bakers yeast from supermarket (was the dried powder type). Just had an airstone going all the time in a warmish fish room. They grew and did the whole life cycle for months if I was on to it. They are actually pretty cool to watch going about there stuff when they become adults (if you don't get out much like me that is). But you have to be super carefull not to over do the feeding and foul water. I Changed maybe 10% of the water about weekly at best, hardest part is not sucking up too many of the beasts (I usually had a pipe and got a suction going trying to pick up as much gunk off bottom (normally with heaps of eggs but not to stressed on that) I held a fine net on the other end to catch the biggest shrimps (sea monkeys) to feed out. I used the sea water from my sea horse tank for changes, it was the bagged salt mix stuff. they are pretty forgiving.
By the way I used this little round maze device to hatch the eggs. There is a lid on top with a hole in the center. You put the eggs on the edge in water, when the shrimp hatch they swim through the maze to the center hole and you lift up a little sieve - no egg shells, really good to get if you are doing it alot.
I used to have sea horses and had to constantly hatch them as food. I then thought I'd try and grow them up. I used normal bakers yeast from supermarket (was the dried powder type). Just had an airstone going all the time in a warmish fish room. They grew and did the whole life cycle for months if I was on to it. They are actually pretty cool to watch going about there stuff when they become adults (if you don't get out much like me that is). But you have to be super carefull not to over do the feeding and foul water. I Changed maybe 10% of the water about weekly at best, hardest part is not sucking up too many of the beasts (I usually had a pipe and got a suction going trying to pick up as much gunk off bottom (normally with heaps of eggs but not to stressed on that) I held a fine net on the other end to catch the biggest shrimps (sea monkeys) to feed out. I used the sea water from my sea horse tank for changes, it was the bagged salt mix stuff. they are pretty forgiving.
By the way I used this little round maze device to hatch the eggs. There is a lid on top with a hole in the center. You put the eggs on the edge in water, when the shrimp hatch they swim through the maze to the center hole and you lift up a little sieve - no egg shells, really good to get if you are doing it alot.
Tongue33;915338; said:How long is forever
They grow pretty quick, could only get the San Fran strain so maybe others are different - a good week to adulthood in good conditions and each one has a lifespan of about 2 to 3 months. I used cheap plastic fish bins to raise them in. I usually had them grow to about 1 cm but I hear they can get a bit bigger too, the forzen ones from your LFS are often quite large (1.5 to 2cm). I know peoples attention spans are getting shorter and shorter but a week is not bad
. Keep them warm, with light, well airated/circulated and fed - little and often I found best (try a gravity fed slow drip line of dissolved food like bakers yeast), and you will have more than you know what to do with.
Just found this link which will tell you absolutely everything you would want to know about hatching and raising brine shrimp. I wish I had this info myself earlier.http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~davidr/discus/articles/artemia.html
Give it a go and Good luck.
I'm about a week into growing out mine. I've lost MANY, and not sure why. The few I have left are now adults, and ready to feed to my fish.