Brine Shrimp

[DarkElf_Mairead]

I have brine shrimp eggs. Do Bettas or youngish clawed frogs eat live brine shrimps? Anyone know any good webpages about hatching and feeding brine shrimp and such? I think it would be fun to watch my pets chase them.

 

[Iggy]

Baby brine shrimp come from those eggs, there are really only good for young fry (1 to 3 month old).

 

[DarkElf_Mairead]

I was afraid of that. What about adult brine shrimp? I've raised them before as part of a science kit.

 

[Iggy]

Adult brine are perfect, but not as economical (or fast) to raise from eggs than to go buy frozen adult brine shrimp cubes from the LFS.

 

[DarkElf_Mairead]

Good point. Eh, maybe it will be fun to watch them chase them Thanks

 

[DarkElf_Mairead]

Hey, just a though, what happens if you put the eggs in a freshwater aqarium? It won't hatch because there's no salt right?

 

[ecotank]

you can't put the eggs directly into a tank, fish will eat the shells and die. You need a hatchery to hatch the eggs and you only feed the live brine to the fish.

 

[DarkElf_Mairead]

gotcha, thanks

 

[DarkElf_Mairead]

K my babies hatched. How do I seperate the shells from the shrimp? The packet they came in said the shells will float to the top and the shrimp will go to the bottom. The shrimp are around the top and everywhere else. Also, what should I feed them and how long til they're considered adults? They're in a liter of water, packet said to use that much because it comes with the right amount of salt.

 

[DarkElf_Mairead]

lol guess I should have thought about some of this before hand....

 

[Lou]

This is what I use as I posted the plans for a hatchery some time ago...

http://www.myfishtank.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11297

If you search on brine shrimp hatchery in the Do it yourself forum you will also get AndyL's take on doing brine shrimp in a 2 liter bottle. We (my daughter and I) had little success with separating the shells from the shrimp until we made the hatchery above.

 

[DarkElf_Mairead]

K my brine shrimp I THINK are adults, and I think new eggs are hatching. How do I feed the adults to the betta? When I put some in with an eye dropped I don't think he can see them.

 

[Lotus]

Adult brine shrimp are about the size of this "O" or bigger.
Baby brine shrimp are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

 

[DarkElf_Mairead]

hmm okay they aren't that big yet....but I swear new eggs are hatching. I just assumed they were new eggs, but they were apparenly just very late hatchers Thanks.

 

[DarkElf_Mairead]

I was wrong, they are that big, lol. I hadn't been back to my dorm for a few days, long weekend, and when I went back to feed my fish and stuff they were a lot bigger. (I don't live too far from the college, half hour tops, so I can feed them over the weekend)

 

[LadySarah]

I was thinking of starting to hatch brine shrimp myself for my ADF's to eat. They do not seem to be too eager to eat frozen blood worms so I was going to give brine shrimp a try. I know that you can buy them frozen, but I thought that the frogs would enjoy the live thing.