best way to hatch/breed brine shrimp

[kase]

hello,

i doing some reseach and see there is only one way to hatch brine shrimps eggs. i was wondring is there any other way/betterway to do so. beside the 2 liter and air pump. i can get the fact you have to run it for 24 hour before they hatch and keep the temp up at 80deg. with out a heater. i live in upstate ny it winter now and cold, heating is costly to keep a room at 80 deg all night

any imput on new ideas or you have found another or better way please, fill me in.

thanks _kase

 

[Waxxiemann]

dude, put your culture into another tub or bucket and heat THAT to 80.

 

[Angel*Fish]

I don't think the 80F is that important except to maximize hatching percentages - no heater at normal room temp (say 72F) is fine

San Francisco has some other kind of hatchery they sell on their website - don't know if it's easier/better or not as I haven't tried it Anyway here's a link to it http://www.sfbb.com/eggs.asp# Click on "Shrimpery"

HTH

 

[kase]

thanks guys for your imput.

 

[brimil]

where does everyone purchase there eggs from?
and is there a different in quality?

 

[Acroholic]

Re: best way to hatch/breed brine shrimp

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8458804#post8458804 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kase
hello,

i doing some reseach and see there is only one way to hatch brine shrimps eggs. i was wondring is there any other way/betterway to do so. beside the 2 liter and air pump. i can get the fact you have to run it for 24 hour before they hatch and keep the temp up at 80deg. with out a heater. i live in upstate ny it winter now and cold, heating is costly to keep a room at 80 deg all night

any imput on new ideas or you have found another or better way please, fill me in.

thanks _kase

I just keep a Melev bulb on a clamp, up close to the hatcher..it keeps the batch in the 79-81 temp range.......
After 24 hrs...I transfer the brine to a heated 10gal.
Feed what I need and gutload the rest with phyto for later....

 

[pjf]

Hatchery Dish

Hatchery Dish

For small and frequent quantities of brine shrimp, it is hard to beat hatchery dishes: http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/c9/Hatchery-Dish-p183.html. There is no pump and no mess! My daughter used such a dish to hatch nauplii a few times a week to feed a brood of betta fry. That required no supervision from me!

 

[Tang Salad]

Re: Hatchery Dish

Re: Hatchery Dish

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8524447#post8524447 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pjf
For small and frequent quantities of brine shrimp, it is hard to beat hatchery dishes: http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/c9/Hatchery-Dish-p183.html. There is no pump and no mess! My daughter used such a dish to hatch nauplii a few times a week to feed a brood of betta fry. That required no supervision from me!

That looks really neat!

Any idea how it works, or what shaped the dish is?

Thanks!

 

[Fishie Nut]

I didn't like the dish. It's about 10" diameter and has three ring inside. Salt water, eggs and wait a day or two. It is, however, difficult to separate the nauplii from the eggs.

I switched to a 2 liter with pump. I put a small light bulb at the bottom and let 'er rip. In 36 hours I've got a netfull of BS to put into the tank. I do this twice a week. It's fun to have the bubbling bottle in the garage. Everytime I go into the garage I't like Dr. Frankenstein's lab. LOL.

Brine Shrimp Direct has all kinds of infor for gut loading and growing and storing BS.

 

[pjf]

Idiot Proof?

Idiot Proof?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8533719#post8533719 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Fishie Nut
I didn't like the dish. It's about 10" diameter and has three ring inside. Salt water, eggs and wait a day or two. It is, however, difficult to separate the nauplii from the eggs.

Hmm...

The hatchery dish seems quite idiot-proof. Place the eggs in the outer ring. When the nauplii hatch, they swim to the sieve spoon in the middle of the dish. You simply lift the spoon, the water stays in the dish, and you have a small batch of nauplii in your spoon without any eggs.

It definitely separates the nauplii from the eggs. I can't imagine anything simpler.

You didn't put the eggs straight into the harvesting spoon, did you?

 

[Fishie Nut]

It's pretty simple, but you really don't get a whole lot of nauplii. I'll sell you the dish, if you'd like it. It's $15 at BSD. You can have it for $10 and I'll ship it to UPS ground. PM me if you'd like it. I've only used it two or three times. I like the 2 liter bottle better.

George

 

[pjf]

Re: Re: Hatchery Dish

Re: Re: Hatchery Dish

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8526141#post8526141 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tang Salad
That looks really neat!

Any idea how it works, or what shaped the dish is?

Thanks!

If you follow the link to the retailer's site, you will see a drawing of the hatchery dish on its packaging.

Molded onto the bottom of the dish are rings with notches or openings. Salt water is poured in the dish to below the top of the rings. Brine shrimp eggs are placed in the outer ring and the dish is covered with a top plate. The top plate has a center opening to allow light to come through. In this opening is a spoon that has a sieve in the bottom. When the eggs hatch, the nauplii swim towards light and into the spoon. You lift the spoon and feed the nauplii to your fish.

At this point, you may want lift the cover and add more eggs to the outer ring. How many eggs you add determines how much nauplii you harvest. No pump, no fuss, no mess.