Pepermint shrimp breeding

[Mashaw]

You can raise the peppermints in a standard 10 gallon tank, with just a heater and air bubbles in the corner. Feed them baby brine shrimp and siphon out any detritus that builds up. After a couple weeks, you can even feed them frozen foods, and they'll pick it up off the bottom and carry it around with them. I've never had iodine issues, as it's already in our salt mix. Highly unlikely your water is deficient in it.
Biggest problems you'll encounter is with the late stage larvae breaking off arms. Bubbles are like wrecking balls to those guys. If an arm breaks off, it takes 3 molts to grow back, which is 12 days or so. They will only settle if they have all their arms, so it can be frustrating when you check and find your biggest larvae missing a leg. lol

I know it can be done in a small tank with air line and bubbles with constant water changes ect ect, but the system I'm running is very different and I'm trying to get away from the hours and hours of maintaince every day as I'm trying a new style of system when I can start doing these on a large scale.

So far to date, I am not seeing anything that points in the direction of the system it's self being the problem as in the first few batches, I did tests every day for about 6weeks and all readings and temps ect ect came back with acceptable results

Thou I will try and add some crushed up flake to the mix and see how it goes

 

[Mashaw]

As Iv said in a few posts this system I'm running is a totally new style of breeding design so I am able to breed in bulk.
I spend along time test and changing the system till I got it right and ready for the first batch, now after Iv had a few batches run through the system Iv got is right afew afew little tweaks.

I'm close and I know I'm close to mass production of them but there is something small stopping me.
I really do think it's something to do with food so I increased the amount of foods in the tank, now this batch with the increased food amount I am on day 4-5 and I have already noticed a stable difference in the fry compared with my last batches.

It's have been a long process of elimination but I really do think it's the food or lack of.
My normal death day, so to speak will be in about 4-5 days so I guess I will have to see how I go and if it fails again, I will just go back to the drawing board and try again.

I really do believe there is a big market for tank bread peps, will here is australia there is anyway and I'd like to try and fill that void and try to relieve a bit of pressure off the reefs.

I'm not sure how much of a marke there is in America for tank bread peps but if I can get this I would love to be able to pass on my final working system design for mass production for someone in America to do

 

[JonezNReef]

Sounds awesome! Have been and will continue to follow this.

 

[Mashaw]

And once again all fry have died at around the day 8-9 mark

Any suggestions???

 

[sabeypets]

Its either a feeding, water quality, or airflow issue.

 

[Mashaw]

Air flow is on spot, water cond is perfect, I have a sneaky feeling it's food, but everything I have read, tells me to fed BBS, iv done this over the last 4-5 batches but have had no luck at all