brine shrimp ... ? weird ?how is this possible?

[oxkisses12ox]

i bought brine shrimp to feed my fish today and when i cut the bag i did it over my sink but the sink had a washcloth in it and some of the brine shrimp fell on it without me knowing .. and like two hours late i look at the wash cloth and realize that its full of them so i shut the drain in my sink and rinsed off the towel and ALL of them started swimming around and were still alive.. how is that possible??

 

[UrbanSage]

Why isn't it?

You didn't really do anything that should kill them..... You just gave them a new home, with less water granted but that is about it. Or am I missing something?

 

[Trilithon3]

oxkisses12ox, did you buy live brine shrimp?

 

[AquaReeferMan]

I believe it was live. Live brine is the only brine I know of that comes in a bag. The same thing happens to me sometimes. Ill find them in the sink, in buckets, the floor, etc. They can tolerate freshwater also.

 

[Trilithon3]

That makes sense. I've only bought frozen brine, but if it was live, then I can see how that could happen.

 

[Trilithon3]

PS, you can buy frozen brine in a bag, Sally's San Francisco Bay Brand.

 

[andrewr]

If I dont use all of my live brine you can leave them in a glass for 2 days, if only Achilles tangs were that tough

 

[AquaReeferMan]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9209731#post9209731 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Trilithon3
PS, you can buy frozen brine in a bag, Sally's San Francisco Bay Brand.

Thats odd I have only seen sallys brine in flat rectangle packages. How big of a bag is it?

 

[archie1709]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9209638#post9209638 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by AquaReeferMan
Live brine is the only brine I know of that comes in a bag.

Nope. Frozen comes in bags too.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9209638#post9209638 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by AquaReeferMan
They can tolerate freshwater also.

Actually, brime doesn't tolerage freshwater ALSO. As a matter of fact, they ARE freshwater creatures.

 

[rayjay]

Actually, brime doesn't tolerage freshwater ALSO. As a matter of fact, they ARE freshwater creatures.

I find this statement confusing!
Brine shrimp can live a short while in fresh water but in fact can live their lives in a very wide range of water with salt in it.
In fact, they can live in water so salty that no predator can survive, hence the industry harvesting brine shrimp in the great salt lake.

 

[oxkisses12ox]

wow...... this is crazy! well i didnt leave them in any water at all they were on a damp cloth .... they can live in anything apparently

 

[rayjay]

I have had adult brine survive a day in the siphon hose after doing a water change. When I forget to rinse it out and do a change on the nauplii containers, the adults get washed into the nauplii containers and swim around like nothing ever happened.

 

[kevin gu3]

In the natural world brine shrimp live in lakes that are subject to periodic drying out (in many cases that is the normal state), huge temperature and salinity swings, etc. They live in hypersaline lakes from tropical salt pans to saltpans high in the Andes mountains that freeze every night. Their schtick is to flourish in such extreme conditions that their competitors and predators do not survive. They are tough little buggers.

http://ut.water.usgs.gov/shrimp/index.html

 

[oxkisses12ox]

wow thats crazy! they are tough!