brine shrimp disaster

lulabulla

lulabulla

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ok i dont know what is going on but i have done a few runs of brine shrimp hatches. the first one came out so perfect no problems. i thought this would be a piece of cake... since then i have attempted 4 other batches which have ALL failed. i have decapsilated every batch and then tried to hatch them. i have done everything the same with every batch. why did only my first one work and the other ones are all failing. what am i doing wrong? btw~ they are the san fran. packets that came with the hatches...
any clues? tips or tricks.. this shouldnt be so hard, especially if i have to make 2-3 batches a day soon.
 
rykna

rykna

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Originally Posted by lulabulla
http:///forum/post/2775832
ok i dont know what is going on but i have done a few runs of brine shrimp hatches. the first one came out so perfect no problems. i thought this would be a piece of cake... since then i have attempted 4 other batches which have ALL failed. i have decapsilated every batch and then tried to hatch them. i have done everything the same with every batch. why did only my first one work and the other ones are all failing. what am i doing wrong? btw~ they are the san fran. packets that came with the hatches...
any clues? tips or tricks.. this shouldnt be so hard, especially if i have to make 2-3 batches a day soon.

No worries
 
rykna

rykna

Active Member
Here's my set up, origin design from Bronco3000(Luke).

DO NOT, and I cannot stress enough do not use anything but decapsilated eggs, I use Artemia. I can PM you info about this.
It saves you a lot of time and stress.
 
lulabulla

lulabulla

Member
yes please PM me rykna.. i need some help.. i just wanna make sure that im not being miss understood, but im failing at decapping my eggs and not having a hatching sucess. i have had sucess in the past but now just 100% fails. if you know what im doing wrong pleeeeese let me know.
thanks
 
rykna

rykna

Active Member
Quick thought...how old are the eggs? I've read that dry eggs hatching percentage will degrade with age.
#1 DO NOT Panic.
If you do not have any baby brine currently hatching purchase some tigger pods.
#2 ditch the decapping step, do not purchase brine eggs that haven't been decapitated.
#3 refer back to #1
#4 email me
#5 refer back to #1
#6 order the decapsulated artemia
#7 Have faith in yourself
Rykna
 
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