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10-28-2004, 09:00 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: San Diego, CA
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Brine Shrimp
A couple of days ago I started a brine shrimp hatchery. Can anyone here recommend me something good to feed them?
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10-28-2004, 09:12 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Upstate NY
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green water , phytoplankton, selcon.......
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10-28-2004, 09:42 PM
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Little fish in a big pond
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Canton, GA USA
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Green water is best in my experience. You can either culture nannochloropsis or whatever dominant strain grows when you put old tank water in a bucket in the sun.
You can gut-load with selcon before you feed the brine to your other creatures, but be careful because selcon fouls the water very quickly.
Some commercial preparations for feeding brine shrimp are made of yeast - while they are effective at growing out the brine shrimp, they don't provide for any nutrition for the fish and corals that eat the brine.
I had a culture going for about 2 years on my back step, using just whatever phyto grew from old nasty tank water. It was not a staple diet for my reef and seahorses, but it made for a nice treat. If you search for "brine culture" and my user name, you sould be able to find my culture threads in the archives. My culture was VERY unscientific bubut it thrived on neglect for about 2 years. Finally a good stretch of rainy weather diluted it and it crashed. If I'd have had a bit more time and effort invested in it, it would probably still be going today.
HTH
Jenn
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10-28-2004, 09:56 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: San Diego, CA
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The thing is Im going to be feeding these things to my fish. There should be something that makes them fat and nutritous, well not fat, just a nice meal.  |
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10-28-2004, 10:00 PM
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Little fish in a big pond
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Canton, GA USA
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Yes - understood...phytoplankton and/or selcon. Gut load them for 12-24 hours and it turns them into "food capsules". Just watch the water with selcon - it's very fatty (that's what it is, omega 3 fatty acids) because it can foul and kill the brine.
Jenn
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11-21-2004, 08:38 PM
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Ghetto Reefer 101
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: georgia
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Will ZOE work instead of selcon?
When do you add it to the water and how much for 1 liter of water?
I purchased a brine hatchery a week ago and started hatching 2 days ago. I have a million baby shrimp, but they are way way way too tiny to do anything with them....how do I get them to grow?
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11-21-2004, 09:21 PM
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Human grounding probe
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Wyoming
Posts: 1,802
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artemia and selcon make one helluva high octane food for brineies.
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11-21-2004, 09:58 PM
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CONSTANTLY LEARNING
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
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For the first two weeks, I feed with Brine Shrimp Direct's "Tahitian Blend".
After that I make a fine suspension with JEMCO's 95% spirulina flake food.
If you can buy live adult brine shrimp it would be best, but if not you could check my web page on brine shrimp that includes links to a lot of excellent information about brine shrimp.
RAISING BRINE SHRIMP |
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