Brine shrimp Question...

I currently am trying diffrent foods to feed my corals...
I've done a little resreach and talked to a few people locally about feeding and hatch baby brine....
I'm willing to give this a shot this coming week:
do you guys have any advise on hatching and feeding baby brine...

 

If you want to feed bbs, then grow them out for two days and then enrich them before feeding to the tank.
I no longer feed bbs to the tanks but instead, I use the more appropriately sized rotifers, after they are enriched of course.

 

it's easy , just make sure the eggs are constantly tumbling. don't feed the eggs(hatched should float, unhatched should sink).

 

a 2 litre bottle and an airpump and air line and air stone where all I used when I hatched Brine Shrimp

I used Artemia shell less brine shrimp as its just more convenient IMO
Drop them in the water ( I think I used 25% tank water and then topped off with RODI )

leave them in there with air stone in for 24 hours
then turn off air pump and you should see some brine shrimp swimming

a good way of removing them is to cover the bottom 2 thirds of the bottle with dark card
and then shine a torch across the top 3rd - the shrimp all make their way to the light
and you can get a really good shrimp to water ratio using a 5ml syringe like the ones they provide for taking samples of your water in many test kits

Steve

 

I'd suggest to use open ended air line tube, not an airstone which can decrease the survival hatch rate from small bubbles. Small bubbles often lodge in the appendages of the artemia and cause suffocation.
The decapped brine shrimp cysts are definitely much safer to use as the decapping procedure kills of the nasty bacteria that the cysts are known to have.
If you don't decap, then at least do a bleaching of the cysts for a minute or so and be sure to rinse the newly hatched nauplii under the cold water tap before placing them in the tank.
Also, in the separation process of using normal cysts, there can be cysts that are gathered up along with the harvested nauplii and they have the potential to block the digestive tract of some fish, especially smaller ones.
Remember too that all cysts don't hatch out around the same time so that when you think you have them all harvested, continue aeration of the remainder and you should find more hatching out after another 8 hours or so.
My BRINE SHRIMP PAGE can give you the simple decap proceedure and all you need is the hatching container, some bleach, a timer, salt water and cysts.

HERE IS PICTURES OF THE CHEAP, SIMPLE HATCHING BOTTLE