Brine Shrimp eggs

Managed to get some brine shrimp eggs at lunch time at Panorama Pets...
Paid: R24.99 for 10g, not sure if this is a high/low price? They had a bigger container for 80 bucks , but this is the first time i'm working with the stuff so i took the small one
Researching some DIY's on the net..doesn't look to difficult..

Questions:
Best way to use it?
Can I feed this stuff to adult fish?ush:

 

last time i grew brine shrimp i bought it in those "practical science" boxes. lol, think the box called them sea-monkeys, they looked nothing like it though, far as i remember you need a container you can circulate, it needs a warm light and the heat too... and salty water

 

Hi Krib got a 4 page word doc if you want ,,, have you got a email addy ....

 

here is the line to the article and a place that sells brine shrimp -- google is my friend
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/diy_brineshrimp_hatchery.php

http://www.brineshrimp.co.za/index.php

 

Here is a pretty good one too: http://www.cichlidworld.eu/diy/artemia/artemia_e.htm

@donny: Can you please send me a copy of that doc as well?

 

Hi Darryn , the word doc is from the chchlid web sight i just copied it into word if you want it i will sent it

 

that article with the console bolltes sounds about the same as the practical science thing i did, it worked well enough... all you really need then is a light to help heat the water if its coldish, and apparently an air pump... and the eggs of course

my employer at the nursery feeds his marine adults with brine, has them in little frozen cubes, chucks a cube in that defrosts fast, soon as those little guys get out of the ice, the fish chow them like nothing...

 

Hi Kribs,

Brine shrimp eggs can be hatched using the correct salt concentration, lighting and temperature as I am sure will be indicated in these articles. R24.99 is expensive for 10g. You can do your calculations but I sell bseggs if I have them in stock for R380 per 454g container. These small amounts of bseggs often hatch very poorly so it may be better to purchase a larger amount. At the moment I do not have in stock so I can unfortunately not help you out.

Ferryman, the bs that are sold as frozen bs are adult bs and are much larger and cannot be used to feed fry.

Bs have a very high nutritional value regardless of whether they are freshly hatched and fed to fry, or if they are adult and frozen and fed to bigger fish. I can supply frozen bs if you are interested.

Kind regards,

Dirk

 

Just breed your own.More rewarding and it will cost u next to nothing to do that.U can get eggs at the lfs we'vr spoken about tonight.(Smaller amounts)or pop in at my place and i'll give u some of mine(Live and eggs)

 

heheheheh, sorry, when i read that top post, dirk, the only word that resounded in my head was BS BS BS lol,

thanks for the info though, i didnt know those arent suitable for fry, but i currently dont need any thanks, i dont even have fish yet -oh the shame-

i'm still fixing up a tank a friend gave me last week which i'm starting with

thanks, slojo, i'll keep that in mind when i get a successful tank running!

 

For adult fish you can use decupsulated artemia, removing of the hard shell makes it possible to use these cysts as feed without preparation and incubation process.I buy it on this site http://artemiadirect.eu/