When you raise baby brine shrimp for livebearers, can you feed them unhatched eggs? I have a kit and a lot of them hatch in the collection bottle, but not all of them. There is no way to separate the hatched shrimp from the eggs. Is it okay for fish to eat the unhatched eggs?
Raising brine shrimp
- Thread starter Arizonagrace
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Not really. The fish can choke on the eggs.
Kits are overkill. Here's my fool proof method. I have as many mason jars set up as I want batches, with ganged air stones running through a whole poked in the top of each. I buy the bulk brine shrimp eggs. I use a pretty hot desk lamp (to keep the temp slightly elevated and add the directed amount of salt (they will tell you on the package) and some Tanganyika buffer (I have it laying around, baking soda works too) to get the pH around 8 (a few parts of a point either way is no biggy). I let them sit for 24 hours. When I want some, I bend the neck of the light where it is facing the very middle of the jar. Eggs will float at top, dead will sink to bottom, and the living will congregate to the top. Extract with eye dropper and keep going for another 48 hours. By then the shrimp have consumed too much of their egg sac and aren't all that nutritious to fish.
Kits are overkill. Here's my fool proof method. I have as many mason jars set up as I want batches, with ganged air stones running through a whole poked in the top of each. I buy the bulk brine shrimp eggs. I use a pretty hot desk lamp (to keep the temp slightly elevated and add the directed amount of salt (they will tell you on the package) and some Tanganyika buffer (I have it laying around, baking soda works too) to get the pH around 8 (a few parts of a point either way is no biggy). I let them sit for 24 hours. When I want some, I bend the neck of the light where it is facing the very middle of the jar. Eggs will float at top, dead will sink to bottom, and the living will congregate to the top. Extract with eye dropper and keep going for another 48 hours. By then the shrimp have consumed too much of their egg sac and aren't all that nutritious to fish.