Brine Shrimp Hatchery?

[Instant Tang]

I'd like to hatch some brine shrimp to feed my fish some live food. I know you gotta feed them YOUNG hatchlings for proper nutrient levels- does anyone regularly feed live young brine, and if so, what hatchery methods or kits do you use?

 

[iCam]

Brine shrimp don't have much nutritional value, really, so it's probably best to enrich them with a suppliment like Selcon.

I will try to find a suitable link, but a lot of people set up hatcheries using the large soda bottles with air stones. Until then, here is a link to give you a basic idea:

Hatchery

 

[Instant Tang]

I'd like to feed my fish some live food though- I've heard that NEWLY hatched brine are nutritious, or is that not correct?

Are there any other, easily hatched, species of "bugs" that are preferable nutritionally speaking?

I do feed them frozen mysis that I soak in Reef Plus to enrich it. They like it, but I'd really like to supplement with live food too.

 

[Anthony Calfo]

I like to also include beta glucan for gut loading them especially for boosting health/immunity in the fed fishes.

Using brewers yeast is also an OK staple food for keeping/feeding/growing out Artemia

As for hatching... I long since tired of the tedious seperation of hatched eggs and unhatched eggs from hatched Artemia. I was decapsulating them... but thats just as tedious.

You can buy them already decapsulated now in bottle form. Its a good feed as is for some corals, and unhatched ones can hatch in the tank and be eaten as live (yummy)... and of course, you can simply hatch them out seperately like using eggs, but without the mess.

I only know of one commercial chap doing them so far... perhaps there are others (and lots of DIY folks):

Dan Underwood from seahorsesource.com

Dan@SeahorseSource.com

FWIW

kindly, Anth-

 

[rustybucket145]

check out this site I purchased their brine shrimp hatchery and eggs and I have been happy with my results. My corals love the babys but my fish don't really pay much attention to them

www.brineshrimpdirect.com