Live Brine Shrimp

[daveverdo]

Forty or so years ago when I got started in this hobby, my local fish store in New Jersey used to have live brine shrimp. At the time they charged a quarter for a good size batch. I remember trying to decide if I wanted a Coke for myself or give my fish a treat.

Does anyone sell live food like this anymore?

I recently bought some brine shrimp eggs and was going to hatch some as a treat for my fish.

Does anyone hatch their own? I know some of you that have dwarf seahorses probably do.

If I hatched my own, should I just feed the newly hatched shrimp to my fish? Or will they live and grow if I let them? What should I feed the newly hatched babies to allow them to grow?

Dave

 

[716mer]

I have hatched my own. I took a pop bottle, drillled a hole in the cap (sligtly larger then an air hose), filled with salt water from the tank, a small amount of eggs, inserted air line with pump and in about 48 hours the bottle is full of fresh hatch. The fish love them. I have never tried to raise past new hatch age. Note: The bootle needs to be almost completely full or else the eggs end up stuck to the waterline resulting in a poor hatch.

There is a place local to me, The Fish Place in North Tonawanda, that sell them for like $2 a scoop

 

[Capt_Cully]

I'm trying to hatch some as we speak. Just started. Small air hose bubbling slowly with a light over it. We'll see what happens. I'm not expecting big things on the first go round.

 

[dreaminmel]

I purchased my hatcher from Seahorse Source and get my brine eggs from them along with both the AlgaMac and NatuRose enrichments for feeding the brine.

I usually feed some of the newly hatched to my dwarves (within first couple hours is best) and then the next day I add one of the enrichments in the hatcher with the brine. The brine do not immediately have mouths for eating so this is why the delay before feeding them the enrichments.

 

[oceanparadise1]

Sea mokey kit my LFS (petworld ik for sure) sells it for like 1.25 for a fish bags worth

 

[Kent E]

I do on occasion.

 

[RandomHero426]

I actually just finished a hatching...San Fransisco bay bring shrimp cysts, they hatched in about a day and i now am feeding them a small amount of yeast to enrich them. First time and it worked well.