Brine shrimp culturing experience?

[dreaminmel]

So I'm looking for suggestions on how to better my plans...

I am setting up a 10 gallon with same salinity as my reef tank and installing an in-tank brine shrimp hatcher into that 10 gallon. The hatched shrimp will be traveling from the hatcher into the tank itself and there I intend on feeding them Selco. The shrimp casings remain behind in the hatcher.

I will have a light on top of the tank to facilitate they're venture out of the hatcher, a heater and an airstone. I will also have one of those handy ammonia level automatic readers to help me keep an eye on water quality without having to use all my testing equipment too fast.

My hopes are that I can rear them to maturity at which point I'll take my brine shrimp net and give both my SW and FW fish a little treat every now and then.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Re: Brine shrimp culturing experience?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7171547#post7171547 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dreaminmel

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Purchase frozen HUFA enriched Artemia (brineshrimp).
Sorry, but unless you're into the actual raising of brineshrimp, I just don't see this as worth the time and effort.
The same with culturing phytoplankton- it's far easier to buy prepared phyto nowadays.

 

[jcanute]

i hatch a batch or two a week and feed them to the tank. http://www.drsfostersmith.com/produ...&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Np=1&pc=1&N=0&Nty=1

 

[dreaminmel]

Gary - Raising them is what I meant when I said I hope to rear them to maturity. My SW fish already eat a varied diet of cyclopeeze, frozen mysis, flake, frozen artemia and whatever they find in the tank itself as far as pods. I am bored and so have decided to try my hand at home grown brine shrimp using Selco to feed them. Have you ever tried this where you might have suggestions about a different setup for it all?

jcanute - I used to use one of those but at this point am looking to grow the brine shrimp to maturity which doesn't work in those hatcheries. If my project fails though I will go back to just hatching them on occassion.

*I am doing this as an experiment w/ my fish as I know full well that our lizards and other animals much prefer live foods plus I have also been told that my chromis just may have a heart attack upon seeing live food so we'll see what happens.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I haven't raised Artemia in years.
You can get the necessary supplies at many LFS's or Frank Hoff's 'Florida Aqua Farms'.

 

[Guy]

If you really want to raise Artemia get a 30 gallon roughneck, add 25 gallons of old tank water, set it outside in the sun with a airline tube on slow bubble (no airstone, just big bubbles) until the water is nice & green, add eggs or nauplii. Let the salinity climb to about 70ppt or more to kill the pods but keep it under 100ppt or the Artemia will revert to eggs vs live birth. To raise salinity just keep topping off with old tank water.