feeding baby brine shrimp
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DanU
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Ideally bbs should be enriched before feeding. Since they don't all hatch at the same time, feeding newly hatched often results in feeding out ones that have lost most of their yolk sac reserves. Also, unless enriched, they are almost devoid of any of the DHA component of the fatty acid profile and are missing 5 of important amino acids.
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Hi Dan- What are you currently using for enrichment? I usually end up feeding most of my bbs to my dwarf seahorse and pipefish within 24 hours. However some still remain. I was thinking about feeding them so that they grow to adulthood
DanU
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Jan, we use Dans' Feed. You should check to see when they start hatching and feed them out as soon as they hatch if you are going to use newly hatch. You do this by taking a small vial and dip it into the cone and hold up to the light and see if there is any movement. In our setups with the cones maintained at 84 to 85 degrees and using decap, our's start hatching at 10 1/2 hours. They are pretty much fully hatched at around 16 hours. Those that hatched in the beginning, would pretty much have used up their reserves by the time the hatch is complete.
For growing them out, you don't want an enrichment, it will clog them up. An algae paste is an easy way to feed them. Just keep a very light tint to the water. You don't want to over feed.
Dan
For growing them out, you don't want an enrichment, it will clog them up. An algae paste is an easy way to feed them. Just keep a very light tint to the water. You don't want to over feed.
Dan
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