keeping live brine in sump?

[thenewguy997]

My buttetfly only eats live brine and keeping them in a jar has a high fatality rate


Can i put them in a mesh bag and sump them?reccommend any non leaching material?

They wont hurt my water quality right?

 

[Greenfluppy]

Don't think they'll do too well in the sump because the return pump will take them up. And if you want them to grow, you'll need to feed them and that pollutes the water easily. Maybe a separate container or tank would be better. I've seen upside down 2-liter bottles used.

 

[thenewguy997]

I.bought a fine mesh media bag and sumped them in it

Well see how it goes..

 

[kenman345]

I honestly have been wondering about what it would take to automate a brine shrimp breeding system that would then be able to be modified to have some mechanism for automatically purging some of the population from the system and introducing them to the tank system.

Anyone know of anything like this being done? I want a self sustaining supply for brine shrimp factory basically

 

[Panta rhei]

Paul B is inventing something

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2428577

 

[kenman345]

Paul B is inventing something

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2428577

He's actually a local guy to me. I am planning to meet up with him soon. His project is inspiring, but is not self sustaining. It only hatches eggs, not keeps the brine through their life cycle and supply itself with more freshly hatched brine shrimp.

 

[Reef Frog]

I buy live Brine from the LFS. Even though they run a sand filter on their holding system, the water is pretty dirty. The BS can foul it further pretty quickly - to the point of killing them. I just replace all the water right after I buy a batch & spread them out over a few different containers. The additional water volume allows them to last as long as I need them without aeration and allows me to feed them in order to gut load them.

 

[thenewguy997]

I put them.im a media bag and sumped them it worked good

Some die after a few days but my nitrates are fine