Brine shrimp eggs

[myster619]

What brand do you guys use and recommend? What is the hatch rate?

How much do you pay for it?

Do you still grow them after a few days or start over again? How and why?

Brine shrimp or Daphnia? Why?

[Noddy65]

Hi Myster619

I buy mine through Age of Aquariums....good hatch rate

You'll have to check out their website for prices...cant remember off the top of my head...I usually get the 500 gm ish tin.

I feed mine as baby brine shrimp....usually feed within one to two days of hatching...my understanding is that the nutritional value is highest then...for me its just not worth the hassle of trying to grow them on....too many fish, too many fish tanks, too many children at home...not enough time in the day etc etc

I feed baby brine shrimp as I want SMALL, moving and good nutrition food.....

I've heard/read about people having real issues hatching them...it seems to be when people buy small packets from the local big chain stores etc....buying from your local fish shop or online (high turnover) means that the eggs are fresher, have been stored better ( I keep my large tins in the fridge) and then have a higher hatch rate.

I have MUCH higher hatch rate if I make a fresh batch every day...if you don't use a fresh batch of water or clean the containers well...the background contamination seems to reduce the hatch rate significantly. Its actually really simple and easy and I produce enough BBS for around 50 tanks each day (feeding twice a day) and it takes me around 5 minutes each day to get stuff prepared...easy..

Mike

[Foti]

Okay mike I know your busy

but I think you need to put together "start" a thread / article with some pics of your bbs set up rotation

I've only used 2lt coke bottles with a valve on the lid

I used to employ the lt of water in the tank but quickly relised that the egg shells stuck on the glass

So read that slowing the water to rest split everything up un hatched eggs on bottom live bbs in middle hatched shells float on top !

[markfnq]

Agree Foti it would be good to see how others go about it .

I am the same as you I use the 2 litre bottle method . Salt and a pinch of bi carb

although I get a bit reluctant to feed anything thats not moving so I try to separate using a shallow tray

covered with a light at one end , after 10 or so minutes they move towards the light then I feed with a turkey baster.

[myster619]

Didn't know they move towards the light.

I am thinking of sticking those cut bottles inside the tank so I would not need external heater.

[LithoMan]

hi all

I have very good success doing

small jar (I use 300gm nescafe instant coffee glass jar)

2.5 tablespoon pool salt

fresh water and half a cup of tank water

and 0.5 tea spoon up to 1 tea spoon of brine shrimp eggs

I put a hole in the lid and put airline through (no air stone)

once done I remove lid and wait and get a very thick layer of brine shrimp

I feed all water/eggs/shells to all my tanks

very easy and works 100% every time for me

if you leave bottle on top of fish tank light even better and faster hatch rate(heat)

I have a small jar upstairs in lounge room because only need to feed 4 tanks worth.

I will try and get a video of what I mean.

I use turkey banister to feed

cheers

[LithoMan]

hi all

trying to upload wont work

no idea why I cant add photobucket links

video shows of my small container I only use 1/4 tea spoon so very little

p.s I stopped it around 12 hours early just to show video double what you see and a little more

the other video is of my large container I was using before I changed to small one

hope Ged can upload the links for me

cheers

[LithoMan]

This is in the morning hope it works

so it got its full cycle for me

i dont really use a light since i feed all

towards the bottom all the egg shells and top i try not to feed they usually go towards the side the room light is on and i suck it up from their.

i uploaded the actual video on my facebook page

lithoman cichlids

Cheers

[LithoMan]

Set up

maybe i used wrong links

these are suppose to be videos

i uploaded the actual video on my facebook page

lithoman cichlids

[myster619]

When you put the airtube through the hole in the lid does that mean there is no gas exchange other than the air going in through the tube?

This is what I am doing now, using the heat of the aquarium to speed up the process.

But the whole point of the thread was to get an idea of what brand eggs members here have had success with.

[LithoMan]

Atm ocean nutrition

Next jar osi

[myster619]

Why change? Not happy with ocean nutrition?

[LithoMan]

No got a good deal on osi

[NathanE]

Ocean nutrition I buy it on ebay the way to ensure good hatch rates is proper storage I keep mine in the freezer they are good even after a year

[chorrylan]

I buy brine shrimp eggs from these guys: http://www.primo.net.au/?page=catlist&id=1

They're aquaculture suppliers so

1) the stock will generally be fresher than anywhere else you can source from and will have been kept in refrigerated storage,

2) they supply to people who are in this as a business so they care and know about even tiny differences in hatch rates, temp requirements etc between batches

Hatching is with one of these:

http://www.jehmco.com/BSHL3BW_10045a-500p.jpg

bought from http://www.jehmco.com/html/brine_shrimp_hatcheries.html

[intangcity]

last brine eggs i used were ocean nutrition from AOA had no problems except tryn to scam eggs from luke

[Ged]

I tried to use an xml file to allow the the playing MP4 videos (Photobucket) directly on the forum but haven't solved the coding. I sorted out the playing of your Facebook video directly in the post. You just copy the url up to the last number in the URL and then paste the url between