I now have my decapsulated BBS. I've read different things about salt. I've seen to add rock salt, I've seen table salt, and I've seen marine salt. Which of these if any should be used? Also could I just use my regular saltwater that i have in my tank. I have a 5 gallon jug for water changes in my tank....can I just use a bit of it to hatch the shrimps in? the sg is 1.023 in the sw I have I believe. Any help???
BBS decap hatching ??
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As long as those decaps are hatchable, (not all are) then you can use tank water used or new, or rock salt but don't use table salt.
1.023 is fine as brine shrimp live in water all the way from brackish to salinity so high nothing else will live. Hatching mid range will probably yield best hatch rates. I do mine now at 1.025.
1.023 is fine as brine shrimp live in water all the way from brackish to salinity so high nothing else will live. Hatching mid range will probably yield best hatch rates. I do mine now at 1.025.
If I'm using the newborn nauplii, then I try to harvest at about 12 to 18 hours at the most, to maximize the huffa content I'm feeding to the end user. That level starts diminishing as soon as the nauplii have hatched, which in my case is usually in the 8 to 12 hour range.
If I'm just going to be ongrowing them to adults, I wait a day or two and occasionally 3, depending on how much other work I have at hand.
If I'm just going to be ongrowing them to adults, I wait a day or two and occasionally 3, depending on how much other work I have at hand.
I use GSL cysts from Brine Shrimp Direct and they are hatching within 8 hours, mostly finished within 12 hours, at around 80F.
I don't use decaps as it's too costly for the numbers I use, and to decap myself is too time consuming with the rest of my workload.
When I can hatch that fast, there is no advantage for me to spend the extra $ buying decaps.
As for separation of cyst from the nauplii, I found that by rinsing the pop bottle I use in very hot water, but not actually cleaning it, a film develops on the inside of the bottle so that the cysts adhere to that film as I siphon out the nauplii, and by the time the water level reached the bottom (or bottle cap end) then there are hardly any cysts left
If anyone is interested in learning how to grow them out to adult in reasonable densities, see my web page for ideas.
RAISING BRINE SHRIMP
I don't use decaps as it's too costly for the numbers I use, and to decap myself is too time consuming with the rest of my workload.
When I can hatch that fast, there is no advantage for me to spend the extra $ buying decaps.
As for separation of cyst from the nauplii, I found that by rinsing the pop bottle I use in very hot water, but not actually cleaning it, a film develops on the inside of the bottle so that the cysts adhere to that film as I siphon out the nauplii, and by the time the water level reached the bottom (or bottle cap end) then there are hardly any cysts left
If anyone is interested in learning how to grow them out to adult in reasonable densities, see my web page for ideas.
RAISING BRINE SHRIMP
