Feeding Artemia

ive read about a thousand different things on what to feed this guys...

i was just wondering do u think hatched brine can take in Micro Vert (filter food that i usually use for corals and inverts)???

if not, what size microns? do you think they can intake...im not even sure if thats the right kind of question to ask because i think ive learned that they can only filter out of the water particle?? i dunno...lookin for some help

 

Bump

 

I think microvert will be ok. For nauplii the best size food is <50 microns and for adult brine shrimp <60 microns.

 

I was under the impression they feed on detritus & bacteria and such...

I have some detritus I'll sell ya! jk

 

They will feed on alot of things. The main thing is that they are what they eat and if you don't feed them something nutritional then your fry or whatever is eating them will not get the adequate nutrients.

 

yeah, i understand that...you can tell if they are healthy almost by the color...the more see-through they are, the less nutrients that have stocked up in their bodies...thanks alot for the info, i was pretty much interested in the micron size...as far as artemia also consuming detritus, when i do water changes on my display tank..ill add a little of that water to my brine tub just to top it off...them buggers grow like crazy

 

If you using them to feed fry then you should be enriching them before feeding with something like Selco or super Selco
Feeding them to grow them out to be used in feeding larger fish you should use a live micro-algae such as Nannochloropsis sp. or an algae paste like Brineshrimp Direct's Tahitian Blend

 

im more into sucking them out of their tank with the baster, and direct feeding them to corals, and the fish get whats left

 

I raise adults for resale to the hobby.
My basic food is nannochloropsis until they become large juveniles when I switch to a combination of the nano and Tahitian Blend.
If you don't want to gut load just before feeding them, you can add AlgaMac to the growout container on a regular basis along with their regular food and this will boost their body nutrition as well as having gut loaded with both AlgaMac and Tahitian Blend if used.
AlgaMac is slightly higher than Super Selco in EPA, DHA, andDPA levels that is so important in marine life, and is in powder form, making it much better for storage as Selco Liquid products have limited storage capabilities.
Tahitian Blend, being a blend of about 5 different algae, provides a very high level of protein and other nutrients that the Selco or AlgaMac don't address to the same level.
I buy my Tahitian Blend and Super Selco from Brine Shrimp Direct and my AlgaMac from SeahorseSource.
The nannochloropsis I culture myself, with approx. 150g under culture all the time.
I recommend a fresh water rinse of all artemia before adding them to any tank, in order to lessen the chance of passing unwanted problems to your tank.
If you are not using decapped cysts for your starting artemia culture, then it's also best to bleach the cysts (30 minutes soaked in 1 gal water with 17ml of 5% bleach, rinse well afterwards) first to kill off the bacteria that cysts are known to harbour and occasionally kill off much of the tank that the resultant brine are added to.