recomendations on hatched brine shrimp

[Hendersonracing]

Ok 1 day in a vessel with a airstonne turned up pretty high for oxygen and I have live baby brine shrimp at what day do I feed? remove? start over?

 

[billsreef]

Feed them right away the day of the hatch. They rapidly loose nutritional value, so there is no point in hatching a large batch and using that for several days. Hatch daily enough to feed your larvae for the day, and repeat daily

 

[Hendersonracing]

ok...Ill feed daily with fresh brine...what is the best thing to feed them...Ive been told roti rich or phyto?

 

[billsreef]

At the point they hatch they do not feed. They don't begin feeding till the instar II stage which occurs about 12 hours after hatching. At that point they are also larger. Once your larvae are big enough to take the larger nauplii, you can feed them phyto, roti rich and selcon to boost their nutritional content.

 

[Hendersonracing]

thanks...its going pretty well so far..can I transfer the small brine to a container and keep them fed to get them larger for my main reef?

 

[billsreef]

Yes, you can raise them to larger size to feed bigger critters

 

[Hendersonracing]

thanks alot!