TOM Continuous Brine Shrimp Hatch 'N Feeder

[leoslizards]

I was wondering if anyone here has tried this product out? I'm going to order somethings off DrsFoster&Smith and was considering ordering it.

I have a 29g FOWLR with a 2" Maroon clown, a 2" Royal Gramma, and about 5 BLHC, 1 turbo snail and 1 emerald crab. No sump/fug and no PS. Just a plain old hob filter. I feed them Omega One Flakes once a day but sometimes I miss a feeding because I sometimes wake up after lights out and it would be nice if they had something to eat during the day. Maybe the BLHC might also stop eating my turbo snails and each other and eat the brine shrimp instead.

I got a few questions.

1. Is it a bad idea to have live brine shrimp constantly living in my tank?

2. Will the surviving adults reproduce within the LR?

3. I'm I better off getting the Shrimpery Kit or making my own, then introducing the adults to my display and hope they survive to reproduce? They might do better in a refug.

4. Will I have to get food for the baby/adult brine or will they eat stuff off the LR, sand, hair algae, or fish food?

5. When I get a PS, will it cause any problems or kill the brine?

6. What other products should I get off their website ?

7. What other types of live food can I breed inside my display? I plan to sometime in the future get a refug and breed pods because I want to get a Mandarin Dragonet.

Thanks.

 

[JRechcygl]

Tried it, and HATED IT!! 1.Brine shrimp WILL NOT live long term in tropical tank conditions.2. NO, darn near impossible, people use swimming pools
3. The kits regardless of brand only produce "babies" not adults, a lot of effort is needed to raise adults
4. Green Water/phytoplankton
7. Amphipods, sometimes mysis, worms of all sorts

 

[Lotus99]

I've used the Shrimpery before. It produces a few baby brine shrimp (BBS). I recently got a new hatchery from brineshrimpdirect dot com that produces a good amount of BBS with little effort. I also use them for my freshwater fish and fry.

BBS will be nothing more than a treat for your saltwater tank, unless you're breeding fish. Unfortunately, as the above poster said, they won't survive/grow in a saltwater tank. It can be done outside the tank, but it takes a lot of time and effort to grow brine shrimp to adult size.

 

[BurntOutReefer]

Lotus99...avatar almost looks like a Nelumbo nucifera

 

[jtma508]

I just started raing live food for my tank a few weeks ago. I use the SF brand mini hatchery that uses the soda bottles. Piece of cake and my tank loves the napaulii (especially my gonioporia). If you get those hatcheries (get 2... they're cheap and it allows you to keep a continuous supply) one warning: they come with pre-mixed packets of salt/eggs. The instructions tell you to mix the packet with 1 litre of fresh water. That's wrong. If you follow the directions you'll get water with a sg of 1.015. Brine shrimp won't hatch with a sg of less than 1.017.