While I normally just pour these guys in as feeders and fully understand the concept of their hypersalinity environment, I am curious whether with proper acclimation there is any shot that any of these guys would live to see another day in the fuge and/or propegate at standard reef salinity. Thoughts?
Acclimation of Brine Shrimp to Reef Salinity?
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Mike_Noren
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The thing with Artemia is that they are adapted to living in an environment where there are zero predators, and as a result have zero natural defenses - this is what makes them such a good feed for almost any small predator, which in turn makes it completely impossible for them to survive anywhere there are small predators.
So yeah, you can set up a bare tank and grow Artemia there, and they will reproduce, but you can't keep artemia with anything which might possibly eat them. And there's tons of things which might eat them in a reef tank.
It's not terribly easy to culture them, they're somewhat finicky, but I know a guy who cultures Artemia in tubs in his yard to feed his fish.
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reefergeorge
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But why? Adults have almost no nutritional value. Culture mysid/mysis shrimp if you want a good food source.
Meus
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They are filter feeders, so you can enrich them with anything that you can get waterborne and a certain size range. Something like 50-150 microns. I'll have to check. Plus, they are smaller and swim around more than mysis. Are not cannibalistic. And their eggs can be stored for long periods of time.
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