For next batch, which will be shortly, get your self some fresh brine shrimp cysts. Not as good as raised shrimp, but will do until you get some shrimp going. I used to just raise brine shrimp, and would get the babies from the batch. You can start with 50 or so adults, and in a few weeks you will have millions. You can feed the adult shrimp to just about any fish, and the babies to the fresh hatched bangaiis. The shrimp give live birth in large containers. Each female will make 20 babies a day or so, and you just scoop out a cup of the water, and have the three different sized nets stacked with adult top, medium middle, and bbs bottom, all about an inch apart. The bottom net will catch only babies. Or you can also use a rotifer screen for babies. The babies will grow fairly fast, and grown in a bucket, brine shrimp are better than freshly hatched and not fed ones. Plus you dont mess with them, once they are set up, they just reproduce and make millions for a month or more, and then just set up a new 5 gallon bucket of green water under a light, fertilize and add 50 or so adults from 1st batch. In a week there will be millions and the shrimp poop fertilizes the water, the algae grows so thick that you cant see a 1/4" down. Use an air tube-no air stone! and have coarse bubbles , so it is just about 1 or 2 every second. Just to keep it stirred up. I find a 100 watt flood light is good, maybe try one of the new flourescent floodlights.
