Baby brine shrimp ???

[MX#28]

I’m wondering if anyone has had success with feeding baby brine shrimp to any of the non-photosynthetics. Most technical articles I read seem to emphasize that the majority need a much smaller meal, but then I read about someone keeping gorgonians successfully with baby brine from time to time.

I’m curious because I hatch baby brine every day or every other day and flood my reef tank with it. I don’t want to get a gorgonian or the like without preparing for it but it seems like the large amount of zooplankton should support something. Does anyone have any suggestions, experience, or opinions on the baby brine with any of the non-photosynthetics?

 

[MX#28]

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[Kreeger1]

People feed baby brine

 

[dendronephthya]

I don't have the reference with me, but one of the early coral researchers wrote "Dendronephthya were voracious consumers of Artemia". I have seen them take baby brine. I presume many other things do as well.

The problem is persistence in the water column. I have made a rotifer drip in the recent past, with recirculating water from the system. Unfortunately, I think the culture water wasn't well tolerated, in spite of lack of siginificant changes in measurable parameters.

Sugest you get a good hand lens and report your feeding findings! Remember, ingestion does not necessarily equate to digestion- do you know what pseudofeces are?

 

[MX#28]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12053917#post12053917 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kreeger1
People feed baby brine

Yes, but to which non-photosynthetic corals? And with what success rate ?

 

[MX#28]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12055131#post12055131 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dendronephthya
I don't have the reference with me, but one of the early coral researchers wrote "Dendronephthya were voracious consumers of Artemia". I have seen them take baby brine. I presume many other things do as well.

The problem is persistence in the water column. I have made a rotifer drip in the recent past, with recirculating water from the system. Unfortunately, I think the culture water wasn't well tolerated, in spite of lack of siginificant changes in measurable parameters.

Sugest you get a good hand lens and report your feeding findings! Remember, ingestion does not necessarily equate to digestion- do you know what pseudofeces are?

Many thanks for the info - is there any chance you could pass along your source about the dendros consuming brine?

I do hatch a lot of artemia and have a few ways of slowly dripping them throughout the day, so I suppose it might be worth a try. I'm not against getting a good hand lens and documenting my feeding findings with scientific intentions, but I also don't want to recklessly kill a coral if there's no chance of my keeping it with just the baby brine.

To answer you question, I've got a vague definition of pseudofeces, but don't know exactly what you're alluding to other than that I assume you're referring to the lack of digestion of ingested food?

 

[MX#28]

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[Kreeger1]

When it comes to non photosynthetic corals, their is really no proven forsure thing. there just to many difference species and so many with different requirements its hard to make a statement like this one eats baby brine. The answer to your question won't be found here other then some things will eat baby brine.

IF your looking for information, read a lot of scientific papers first, form a good idea in your head as to how you want to feed, then try it out and ask questions on the way. IMO thats about all you can do right now if you plan on keeping dendro's and scerlo's
Erik