MondoBongo
Obligate Feeder Obsessed
I used 3/8" for mine. I had to call a few LFS to find it, but you could always order it.
Feeding Stations
- Thread starter Paul B
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I used 3/8" for mine. I had to call a few LFS to find it, but you could always order it.
MondoBongo
Obligate Feeder Obsessed
Wash them down with a little water. As long as you displace the water in the tube with an equal or greater amount if water, the weight of the new water plus gravity will pull it down until it is equal to the tank water level.
vitz
New member
excellent work sir! 
fwiw-for anyone using the stand alone bs hatchery, or any clear container...
after hatching, the artemia cyst/egg shells float. you can simply shine a penlight flashlight from the bottom/side of the container pointing up-the nauplii will swim downwards towards the light point source, where you can then siphon them out w/ airline tubing, leaving the shells up top
fwiw-for anyone using the stand alone bs hatchery, or any clear container...
after hatching, the artemia cyst/egg shells float. you can simply shine a penlight flashlight from the bottom/side of the container pointing up-the nauplii will swim downwards towards the light point source, where you can then siphon them out w/ airline tubing, leaving the shells up top
MondoBongo
Obligate Feeder Obsessed
just wanted to share a picture of another satisfied customer.
Hi all,
I'm about to pick up a BBS hatchery based on Paul's design. A local acrylic builder was kind enough to put one together for me.
I'll add pics when I get it, but in the meantime I thought I'd add a pic of a copperband butterfly feeder I made out of some PVC fittings, zip ties and a Koralia magnet. I think the design was someone else's on here but don't remember the thread.
I'm about to pick up a BBS hatchery based on Paul's design. A local acrylic builder was kind enough to put one together for me.
I'll add pics when I get it, but in the meantime I thought I'd add a pic of a copperband butterfly feeder I made out of some PVC fittings, zip ties and a Koralia magnet. I think the design was someone else's on here but don't remember the thread.
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mwilliams62
New member
Cool Lee.... Just can't wait to see the one you got built....
Spyderturbo007
New member
I hatch them every day and seperate the shells in here
So you just use this to separate the BBS from the shells? I'm assuming you hatch them in one of the upsidedown 2L contraptions they sell in the store?
How far down is the hole that you allow the BBS to swim through after opening the gate or doesn't it really matter? It looks like it's about half way down?
Neptune 555
New member
Great search feature on this website! I am reading today a year after the post... and am so happy with this information!! Step by step instruction on how to create a feeding station. I started this hobby 15 years ago to keep a mandarin fish that I saw at a public aquarium... and built my tank around them. However he would eat my pods quicker then they reproduced.. he did take frozen food however my larger fish would out compete him. After one died after only 1+ years.. I didn't replace him... b/c it was cruel. NOW as I am building a 75 gallon he is my centerpiece and I am researching to ensure his feeding habits can be met and I finally found my answer. I now am being greedy but want a male / female pair.
OK a few more questions...
* What is the best method to hatch brine shrimp? any advice / pictures?
* What is the best way to grow pods? My 50 gallon is 15 years old.. and is fallow for now ridding an ich outbreak. What can I do now to grow my pod family?
* I have a yellow goby 3 years old in QT now - I purchased after my failed attempts w/ the mandarin. Will they be able to cohabitate? I would never have purchased another bottom dweller to compete with my mandarin but with the feeding station will this work?
OK a few more questions...
* What is the best method to hatch brine shrimp? any advice / pictures?
* What is the best way to grow pods? My 50 gallon is 15 years old.. and is fallow for now ridding an ich outbreak. What can I do now to grow my pod family?
* I have a yellow goby 3 years old in QT now - I purchased after my failed attempts w/ the mandarin. Will they be able to cohabitate? I would never have purchased another bottom dweller to compete with my mandarin but with the feeding station will this work?
Paul B
Premium Member
In that thing I built 6" above this post. Any seawater, even old tank water.
I collect them but you need some pods from anywhere. You probably stil have some in there or you need to get some sand from some ones tank. Just throw some pellets in there every day , pods will grow as long as you don't keep the tank to sterile.
If it's a yellow clown gobi he won't eat from the feeder. I feed them live worms like I feed all my fish. They will thrive and even spawn on worms, mine spawn at least once a week. With most other foods, they will croak. They will also eat small pieces of clam and sometimes small mysis.
Very cool idea paul. Thanks for sharing it. What kind of worms do you feed?
PaintGuru
New member
Can I ask a stupid question? How do you actually get the BBS down the tube into the feeder? I would think that when the feeder is at the bottom of the tank, the water pressure would push water up the tube to the height of the top of the tank. Do you just add the brine to that and let them swim down the tube into the feeder or is there some other way you're pushing them to their destination?
Paul B
Premium Member
A lot of people ask me that question so I guess it is confusing. I drain the water and new born shrimp from the feeder into a baby brine shrimp sieve. Then I squirt a little water in it and quickly pour the shrimp into a small amount of water, about a tablespoon. I then use one of these (pictured) and squirt that small amount of water with the shrimp into the feeder tube immediately followed by another tablespoon of water that pushes all the shrimp down the tube into the feeder. You don't want to put to much water into the feeder or it would push all the shrimp through the mesh and out of the feeder at once.
trust me it works as I do it twice a day.
I hatch them in old tank water as they don't seem to care how they hatch and never asked to see the hydrometer.
