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I have mine in margerine containers on a windowsill. Takes about 3 days to get bbs.

 

Did you use those white pill containers? the eggs you have look very old. The color is wrong from the pic.

 

They should not be brown in color . they normally expired by the time you get them . See if you can get hold of some instant brine. They work well or I raised my corries on normal fish food made an paste froze it and made little balls drop them in and it dissolves as the eat . A bit less messier.

 

You could use frozen mysis, cyclobs and hikari first bites(sinking issue) Micro worms. The brine should have an reddish tint to the eggs.



Just look out for the expiry date if you paying full price.

 

I decapsulated the eggs before hatching, and found that it works very well to eliminate the egg cysts.
The process was simple to do, and I just had to stand and wait for the BBS to change colour.

Set up a small plastic or glass container, with about 2 cups of water.
Insert an airline hose into the water.
Pour about 1 teaspoon of BBS into the water.
Let the BBS eggs roll around for about 1 hour, until they have hydrated slightly.
Add 1 cup of household bleach to the water and BBS mixture.
Watch the eggs change colour. They go from brown to white, then finally to orange/yellow.
Once that is done, pour the eggs through a brine shrimp net or very fine cloth.
I used a piece of a wedding veil set in a kichen sieve, and fastened with an elastic band.
Rinse the eggs under running water until you don't smell bleach.

To hatch, I used a 2L plastic bottle like yours is set up.
I used marine water with a salinity of 35 PPM or 1.026.
I keep an incandescent bulb going for 48 hours over the bottle.
The light warms the water, and attracts any BBS that have hatched.
After 48 hours I switched off the aeration, and changed the position of the lamp to shine in the neck portion of the bottle.
This draws the hatched BBS to the bottom of the bottle.
Then I simply unscrew the cap, and let the water and BBS run through the same filter material I used previously.

I bought small pill containers of 10ml from Plasticland, and using a pipette dropped about 1ml of BBS with water into the containers.
The BBS were kept in the fridge for a few days, and taken out and left outside to warm up o about room temperature before feeding to fry.

 

I use a plastic shot glass and mix a teaspoon tip full of Hikari First Bites in a half full shot glass of tank water.
Swirl it around a bit, and the powder soon sinks.
From there just pour it into the tank, and rinse the glass in the tank.

 

What are the mosquito larvae floating in?
They make excellent feed for fish, as long as the fish eat them before they become buzzing nuisances.

 

My fish loved mosquito larvae, especially my betta

 

Got myself an early Christmas present.

 

I missed this.. somehow...

Wow... didnt realize he was that old.. well done on having him so long

I certainly pray its a good sign!!