Originally Posted by
John & Sherri
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We purchased a Brine Hatchery kit so we can feed them to our fish, 1st question is once they are placed into our tanks per instuctions, Whats to keep them from being immediatly pulled into the filter system thus ending the feeding before it begins & should we leave them in the container to grow a bit before adding them to the tank ? ( i have no clue ) Any help would be greatly appreciated............................Thanks, John & Sherri
Brine shrimp hatching is very easy. Growing them, not so much....
I don't know what kind of hatching kit you got, but when you feed the tank, you should turn off the filters and pumps. The shrimp, however, will be attracted to the light. But my fish and seahorses have no problem chasing down the newly hatched baby brine shrimp.
How do you pull the hatched shrimp out of your hatchery?
I hatch mine in 2 liter soda bottles with a hole drilled in the cap and rigid airline in the water.
When I go to feed, I turn off the air pump and allow the mixture to settle out for about 30 minutes. The shells will float to the top and the brine shrimp will congregate in the most lighted spot near the bottom. Then, I use a different piece of rigid airline with flexible airline attached to it, and siphon out the newly hatched brine shrimp. The shrimp will congregrate in an orange cloud and are easy to see this way.
If you are trying to grow them out, you'll need some kind of phytoplankton to feed the shrimp on the 2nd day. You can use live plankton or the "dead" algae pastes as foods.
Also, if growing them out, you will need a bigger container - a 5 gallon bucket is good size. Siphon the newly hatched shrimp, put them in the growout bucket with saltwater in it, put a light over it and feed the algae. You should feed them to the fish before the end of 2 weeks when they start to reproduce and lay eggs in the bucket.
