What can I feed to newly hatched brine shrimp?
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if you are willing to pay about three bucks and get the sharks of the shrimp world known as triops you can crush up there food and feed it to them but only feed crushed up green pellets you benefit by getting food for brine shrimp and you get triops wich are cool as **** not into triops buy one of those sea monkey tank kit things and feed them the food included or if your like me and dont want to spend three to five dollars crush some algae pellets into a FINE dust or some fish flakes might work too if you keep brine shrimp for along time in the same tank algae will start to grow itself and youll have a constant suppy i breed a bunch in a ten gallon tank i buy on of those tubes of eggs and a carton of salt or i buy like six pree mixed salt / egg packages
Here is some info for Brine Shrimp.
http://saltaquarium.about.com/library/blank/bl_DIY_Brine_Shrimp_Growing.htm
http://saltaquarium.about.com/library/blank/bl_DIY_Brine_Shrimp_Growing.htm
I would have to agree with that statement.
Why would you want to grow out brine shrimp, just curious. If you want full grown brine shrimp, it's way more cost-effective just to buy them. You can buy a vial for $3 that lasts 10-15 batches, and you can always down the batches so you're not wasting as much. A batch of eggs will create several hundred thousand bbs, some will die. On top of that, BBS lose their nutritious value for small fish as they grow and use their nutrients for growth instead of giving it to fish.
If you are gung-ho about it, any spirulina powder will work. You can buy it from a health food store (little expensive, but it lasts forever). You could also just crush up algae wafers, as stated above.
If you are gung-ho about it, any spirulina powder will work. You can buy it from a health food store (little expensive, but it lasts forever). You could also just crush up algae wafers, as stated above.
They can live off their yolks for a while. Otherwise, yeast or whole wheat flour will work. You can also try boiled egg yolk, but I have personally only used flour.
I raise and breed brine shrimp and from personal experience if you don't have lots of fish to feed it to, space, time, energy, know how and a little luck it isn't worth your effort. Personally, I've got over 400 fish of various sizes and ages and I feed brine shrimp from the newly hatched size right up to the full grown breeders. It's a pretty good system for me for various reasons though. Firstly, I'm spending far less money on a can of eggs than I would buying packages of frozen brine shrimp. Secondly, I can feed the brine shrimp at various different sizes at my discretion to fish of different sizes. Thirdly, I control what my brine shrimp eat so I can make sure they're of high nutritional value vs. the packaged stuff which is fed on yeast. Because I dont have as much space as I'd like until May I can't do as many brine shrimp colonies as I'd like and as a result I still have to hatch brine shrimp constantly but I do have several tanks of breeding shrimp and I use a big weaved net to strip the adults, feed them to my fish and then allow their offspring to grow and breed, rinse and repeat. What I also do, which may be more practical for you is that I hatch huge batches of baby brine shrimp and then freeze them into ice cubes. I feed very small amounts of the total live and then freeze all the rest. This saves me the hassle of hatching constantly and means I have an easily accessible supply on hand.
Brine shrimp are widely thought to be floating carapice beyond the larval stage, but that isn't true at all, just a misconception. What you will find though is that the time you invest learning to keep them alive (figuring out what to feed them isn't going to be all you'll have to learn sadly) and the time it takes to grow them out to adult breeding size wont be worth it for you unless again you've got lots of mouths to feed etc. To be perfectly honest, if you just want to see how brine shrimp grow, best bet is to get the sea monkey kits (that's what they're actually called I think) because they're apparently fool-proof for raising the shrimp to adulthood.
Brine shrimp are widely thought to be floating carapice beyond the larval stage, but that isn't true at all, just a misconception. What you will find though is that the time you invest learning to keep them alive (figuring out what to feed them isn't going to be all you'll have to learn sadly) and the time it takes to grow them out to adult breeding size wont be worth it for you unless again you've got lots of mouths to feed etc. To be perfectly honest, if you just want to see how brine shrimp grow, best bet is to get the sea monkey kits (that's what they're actually called I think) because they're apparently fool-proof for raising the shrimp to adulthood.