The outdoor brine shrimp tub is in partial sun. Very important. That encourages algae to grow. The tub is fully covered only when it rains. Otherwise partially covered. Bugs fall in, decompose and the bacteria provide additional food for the brine shrimp. I don't feed them anything. Nature feeds them.
Indoors, feed the brine shrimp spirulina powder and a product called 'Selcon' (just a drop every day). Even inside with a light on you will get some algae growth.
please read the comments below. Basically the shrimp eat algae, hence the need for sunlight. The algae lives on the bacteria that eats the bugs that fall into the water and decay. Inside I feed them Selcone,
Thank you for very helpful video. I am in Texas with temperatures soaring in summer. I agree finding the sweet spot outside is a challenge. Do you have adverse effects on the grass from all the salty water? What do you anchor the partial covers with to keep raccoons and possums out? We have many thirsty back yard animals!! Thank you again.
@onesmallvoicex2 thankfully I only have small birds, squirrels and chipmunks to contend with. The problem is not them drinking the water, it is falling in and not being able to get back out. I guess you would need to put some chicken wire or other fencing around the tubs. Raccoons and possums can be very destructive. David
I actually should have said that the containers are 'mostly' covered. There are still openings. Leaving the tub completely open found my tubs getting contaminated with jumping frogs,small birds, and the occasional squirrel. We have had a sever drought and any kind of water smells great to the critters. A mostly covered top keeps them from falling into the salt water and dying. When we get the rare rain, the cover gets pulled over to keep the fresh water out. David
David, great video. One question though, you say you keep the containers covered so how are bugs etc getting into the tubs to help grow the algae to feed the shrimp? Can & do these bugs eat the growing shrimp at all? I'm in Az and definitely want to give your method a try...seems to be the easiest one out there. I do worry about the heat here. Thanks for sharing.
@MaxCheesy I feed my brine shrimp a hard boiled egg yolk with water mixture feed them a teaspoon every three days give or take depending on the amount of shrimp
@MaxCheesy I feed my brine shrimp a hard boiled egg yolk with water mixture feed them a teaspoon every three days give or take depending on the amount of shrimp. that also goes for baby brine shrimp just mash the egg yolk with the brine shrimp net in water
Bugs fall into the containers outside which will grow algae in the water. That is what the baby brine shrimp are eating. I don't feed them anything else. That is why where the containers are placed outside is so important. Need enough sunlight to grow algae, but not so much that the container cooks and kills the baby shrimp.
I have a question regrding the food they consume. What kind of food do you have to feed to the baby brine shrimp. And what type of food does the adults consume.
what is the temp you need to bread them indoors? if you have 2 or 2 tubs i don't understand when you fill them up? like start with a first tube and after some time take some water to the other tube?
@dudu7magal I hatch bbs in 1/2 gallon of salt water. So every day I put a half gallon into the tub outside. After a couple of weeks the container is half full or a little more. Then I start the second tub. After a couple more weeks, the shrimp are ready to net out of the first container. They will grow there for a couple of weeks before all the remaining eggs have hatched and grown up. Then I dump that first container and start it over. By then, the second container is ready to net out.
I am not saying this is self sustaining forever. I tell you I swap back and forth between 2 tubs because the water goes bad eventually. A longer answer to this same question is further below.
How would this work in 50-60 temp. which is what my basement is year round. It's great for my white worms, but is it warm enough for the brine shrimp?
So, after you hatch them you don't remove them, instead dump them out, with the shells, into a bucket for a few weeks, right? I though you needed an air pump to keep them oxygenated. I have been trying to raise them and at the first attempt I turned off the airpump for the night and they all died :/
Hi, are you talking about a self-sustaining brine shrimp culture (except the added food) or are you talking about hatching your brine shrimp from eggs each time? And does feeding your fish brine shrimps exclusively cause any problem because of the salt in the brine shrimps?
@MrPicusb Each tub only last 3-5 weeks. Then the water will go bad, a slimy algae will take over, all the shrimp have grown up. That is why I always have at least 2 tubs, I stagger them so when one needs to start over, the other one is producing. Right now, we are 40s at night, 60-70 during the day. Still too cold. None of the shrimp outside are surviving.
Respond to this video... When I collect the shrimp, I always rinse them in fresh water before feeding to my fish. Never let all that salt get into your tanks.
@MrPicusb I think for this to be self sustaining you will have to do something about the water quality. The empty egg shells will rot, nutrients and components of the water will be depleted. I do know that in the summer the adults will breed, females will carry eggs sacks. But I don't know if those eggs will hatch and continue the cycle. It would be an interesting experiment for someone. David
I don't really know if the Selcon helps or not. It is used by one of the public aquariums I visited and they say it makes a difference. At roughly $15 for a bottle that has lasted almost a year, I take their word for it.
air line only, no airstone for aeration. I hatch brine shrimp eggs with 3 heaping tablespoons of salt to a half gallon of water. This ends up being what I am using to raise them to adult hood. I have no idea what the salinity level is. Google brine shrimp salinity and you will find a lot of articles. Maybe that will help.
Hi David, do you use anything to circulate the water, or just what the air line produces? Also, what do use have the salinity level at, my reef tank is at 1.024, is that ok for brine or should it be less? Thanks again.
@wolverine1865 Yes I was reading off a card. Only time I have ever done that. Also the last time I will ever to that. Maybe if I had Obama's telprompter contraption it would have come out better. I don't even use notes when doing talks at clubs. Should have stayed with what I know.
@djrramsey There is nothing wrong with using cards...just do NOT use a BS teleprompter as Obama uses!!!
THANKS for the great idea and yes, this is supposed to be fun but too many insecure people like to make a mystery out of it in order to make themselves look intelligent.
I like your K.I.S.S. attitude and adhere to it myself.
The two 5 gallon buckets will work great. Just use airline, not the airstone. Rubber band a rock to the end of the airstone to get it to stay on the bottom. Only fill the buckets 1/2 - 2/3 full since the surface area is the limiting factor. Good luck!
Inside, feed the baby brine shrimp spirulina and Selcon. Amazon or Ebay will have Selcon. $15-$20 for small bottle, but you only feed a drop a day to a decent size container. Leave the light on them 24 hours a day. Ready to go in 3 weeks. I would rather have 2 tanks in the space instead of a single 30 gallon because the process will crash after 4-6 weeks and you need a second one getting up to speed when the one crashes. Go back and forth. Probably put in a slow sponge filter w extra airstones.
Hi David, I have a question, I want to keep adult brine shrimp as a supplementry food source for my reef tank. I am going to have to do this indoors as it only gets warm enough a few months of the year here. So question{1} If there are no bird droppings etc, what would you use as a food source{spirolina}? Question{2} Could this be done under my reef tank with a light source and a 30g tank? Any suggestions?
Hello. Sorry but I have a couple of other questions to ask.
1.Do they need to be cleaned? Like I meant their tub, when I tried to care for my brine shrimp indoors...I only got them to sub-adult then they all just died from dirty water. Won't this also happen in a outdoor tank?
2.I'm planning to use this method and compare it to my indoor method and see which is better. I will show a series using both over the summer and was wondering could I have your permission to use this method?
1. When the tubs are outside, there is always bugs, leaves bird droppings landing in the water. That seems to generate enough food for the saltwater algae type stuff to provide food for the shrimp.
2. I am in Georgia, in the summer the afternoon sun will have the water over 100F. Just the morning sun works for the shrimp, it isn't so hot then. In the early spring and fall, I pull the tubs around to the side so they get most of the days sun. Not so hot, and not so much sun strength those times.
I have a couple of important questions that I'm hoping you can answer ASAP:
1.I'm guessing that the brine shrimp are eating upon diatoms and other algae particles floating in the water right? But how do they get there?
2.What did you mean by morning sunlight not the baking afternoon one?
3.Don't you have to do some form of mainetenance to keep them alive? I mean...when I tried another method of growing brine shrimp...they all died even though I did a bunch of water changes and fed them.
When I have the tubs inside I have an airline into the tub. No airstone, just a rock rubber banded tubing line for water movement. Outside I don't have a way to get air to them.
I intend to put up quite a few more next year. Just takes a lot of time and planning to get it all together. With work and 100 tanks free time is tight.
There really isn't more to maintaining the tubs outside. I really do just pour the brine shrimp water into the tub, cover it when it rains, and start harvesting the shrimp in about 3 weeks. The only hard part is finding the right amount of light in the yard for the bacteria/algae to grow in the tub and feed the shrimp.
@igotitdawg he is obviously reading his lines
iPodGirl9999 1 week ago
why does he look off screen the whole time
igotitdawg 1 week ago
Great vid I want to start growing my own fish
VisionForum11 2 weeks ago
R u cockeyed
darengurson 3 weeks ago
Love the videos.Please make more videos.
Mr123discus 4 weeks ago
The outdoor brine shrimp tub is in partial sun. Very important. That encourages algae to grow. The tub is fully covered only when it rains. Otherwise partially covered. Bugs fall in, decompose and the bacteria provide additional food for the brine shrimp. I don't feed them anything. Nature feeds them.
Indoors, feed the brine shrimp spirulina powder and a product called 'Selcon' (just a drop every day). Even inside with a light on you will get some algae growth.
djrramsey 1 month ago
you didnt explain shit. fail. what do you feed them etc etc etc details!!!
SuperGrowPlants 1 month ago
hi sir. I keep my brine shrimp in a tank. I do not know how to feed them.
ProWilsonTan 1 month ago
GENIUS.
fenbogle 1 month ago
what do you feed the brine shrimp?
rexlink1 2 months ago
I think you can freeze them as ice cubes and sell them off as live food
shachar2 2 months ago
I love the way he's reading off a script... Quick tips gramps, put the card under the camera lol..... Great advice btw!!!
reaperrowledge 2 months ago
SHRIMPIES
mockingjayluver121 2 months ago
what do you feed your shprimp???
doctorbrinco 3 months ago
I love this video, you are up to the point
PizzaCakeSteak 3 months ago
Thanks Mr David.Excellent Video.Please upload more videos.I am Sri Lankan.Thanks.
samanpriyantha2010 4 months ago
I just went to the toy section of wallgreens and bought sea monkeys [brine shrimp] and just feed them to the fish.
MatthewAhnify 4 months ago
does this smell? could you do it in your garage?
jimmyx36 5 months ago
So how long does it take the shrimp to mature? Just 3 weeks?
NuttinSpeciaI 5 months ago
please read the comments below. Basically the shrimp eat algae, hence the need for sunlight. The algae lives on the bacteria that eats the bugs that fall into the water and decay. Inside I feed them Selcone,
djrramsey 5 months ago
wat do u feed them?
essrida 5 months ago
very good guide :)
JUNAID187 5 months ago
Thank you for very helpful video. I am in Texas with temperatures soaring in summer. I agree finding the sweet spot outside is a challenge. Do you have adverse effects on the grass from all the salty water? What do you anchor the partial covers with to keep raccoons and possums out? We have many thirsty back yard animals!! Thank you again.
onesmallvoicex2 5 months ago
@onesmallvoicex2 thankfully I only have small birds, squirrels and chipmunks to contend with. The problem is not them drinking the water, it is falling in and not being able to get back out. I guess you would need to put some chicken wire or other fencing around the tubs. Raccoons and possums can be very destructive. David
djrramsey 5 months ago
I actually should have said that the containers are 'mostly' covered. There are still openings. Leaving the tub completely open found my tubs getting contaminated with jumping frogs,small birds, and the occasional squirrel. We have had a sever drought and any kind of water smells great to the critters. A mostly covered top keeps them from falling into the salt water and dying. When we get the rare rain, the cover gets pulled over to keep the fresh water out. David
djrramsey 6 months ago
David, great video. One question though, you say you keep the containers covered so how are bugs etc getting into the tubs to help grow the algae to feed the shrimp? Can & do these bugs eat the growing shrimp at all? I'm in Az and definitely want to give your method a try...seems to be the easiest one out there. I do worry about the heat here. Thanks for sharing.
airangel59 6 months ago
what do they eat?
MaxCheesy 7 months ago
@MaxCheesy I feed my brine shrimp a hard boiled egg yolk with water mixture feed them a teaspoon every three days give or take depending on the amount of shrimp
mike52651 6 months ago
@MaxCheesy I feed my brine shrimp a hard boiled egg yolk with water mixture feed them a teaspoon every three days give or take depending on the amount of shrimp. that also goes for baby brine shrimp just mash the egg yolk with the brine shrimp net in water
mike52651 6 months ago
I think hes looking at a sign with his text lol. xP
ShinyHunterExtreme 8 months ago
@ShinyHunterExtreme hahaha yeaahh. he is xD
XxCat3xX 6 months ago
Bugs fall into the containers outside which will grow algae in the water. That is what the baby brine shrimp are eating. I don't feed them anything else. That is why where the containers are placed outside is so important. Need enough sunlight to grow algae, but not so much that the container cooks and kills the baby shrimp.
djrramsey 9 months ago
I have a question regrding the food they consume. What kind of food do you have to feed to the baby brine shrimp. And what type of food does the adults consume.
zerounite 9 months ago
what is the temp you need to bread them indoors? if you have 2 or 2 tubs i don't understand when you fill them up? like start with a first tube and after some time take some water to the other tube?
thanks!
dudu7magal 9 months ago
@dudu7magal I hatch bbs in 1/2 gallon of salt water. So every day I put a half gallon into the tub outside. After a couple of weeks the container is half full or a little more. Then I start the second tub. After a couple more weeks, the shrimp are ready to net out of the first container. They will grow there for a couple of weeks before all the remaining eggs have hatched and grown up. Then I dump that first container and start it over. By then, the second container is ready to net out.
djrramsey 9 months ago
Awsome Clip
datingadult101 10 months ago
I am not saying this is self sustaining forever. I tell you I swap back and forth between 2 tubs because the water goes bad eventually. A longer answer to this same question is further below.
djrramsey 10 months ago
are you saying your shrimp are producing eggs? that you can keep this system going?if you are i am going to have to try that
tappakeggaday1 10 months ago
Thank you for the video.
mopbrothers 10 months ago
I don't get any brine shrimp growing up at the 50-60F range. Add a heater. It won't run much, only adding 15-20 degrees.
djrramsey 10 months ago
How would this work in 50-60 temp. which is what my basement is year round. It's great for my white worms, but is it warm enough for the brine shrimp?
Thanks for the video.
MrFishflake 10 months ago
So, after you hatch them you don't remove them, instead dump them out, with the shells, into a bucket for a few weeks, right? I though you needed an air pump to keep them oxygenated. I have been trying to raise them and at the first attempt I turned off the airpump for the night and they all died :/
MyFishCare101 10 months ago
@MyFishCare101 Inside I use an airline to keep some movement of the water. Plus I have a light very close to the water that adds some heat.
djrramsey 10 months ago
Hi, are you talking about a self-sustaining brine shrimp culture (except the added food) or are you talking about hatching your brine shrimp from eggs each time? And does feeding your fish brine shrimps exclusively cause any problem because of the salt in the brine shrimps?
MrPicusb 10 months ago
@MrPicusb Each tub only last 3-5 weeks. Then the water will go bad, a slimy algae will take over, all the shrimp have grown up. That is why I always have at least 2 tubs, I stagger them so when one needs to start over, the other one is producing. Right now, we are 40s at night, 60-70 during the day. Still too cold. None of the shrimp outside are surviving.
djrramsey 10 months ago
Respond to this video... When I collect the shrimp, I always rinse them in fresh water before feeding to my fish. Never let all that salt get into your tanks.
djrramsey 10 months ago
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MrPicusb 10 months ago
@MrPicusb I think for this to be self sustaining you will have to do something about the water quality. The empty egg shells will rot, nutrients and components of the water will be depleted. I do know that in the summer the adults will breed, females will carry eggs sacks. But I don't know if those eggs will hatch and continue the cycle. It would be an interesting experiment for someone. David
djrramsey 10 months ago
My brine shrimp only live for 6 days
74slapshot 10 months ago
I don't really know if the Selcon helps or not. It is used by one of the public aquariums I visited and they say it makes a difference. At roughly $15 for a bottle that has lasted almost a year, I take their word for it.
djrramsey 11 months ago
Excellent method. Have you found that Selcon really makes a difference?
BigBearHuskyMusher 11 months ago
Simple yet effective! I like this video
Pogi724 11 months ago
nice video Ramsey, thanks from panama!!!
elnako 11 months ago
i wached the beginning of the video and noticed you never flicked your eyes?
iownudie108 11 months ago
air line only, no airstone for aeration. I hatch brine shrimp eggs with 3 heaping tablespoons of salt to a half gallon of water. This ends up being what I am using to raise them to adult hood. I have no idea what the salinity level is. Google brine shrimp salinity and you will find a lot of articles. Maybe that will help.
djrramsey 1 year ago
Hi David, do you use anything to circulate the water, or just what the air line produces? Also, what do use have the salinity level at, my reef tank is at 1.024, is that ok for brine or should it be less? Thanks again.
dsaundry 1 year ago
were you reading off a card.
wolverine1865 1 year ago
@wolverine1865
What difference does it make whether someone is reading off a card?? He sure knows his stuff.
dsaundry 1 year ago
@dsaundry im just saying, keep your hair on
wolverine1865 1 year ago
@wolverine1865 Yes I was reading off a card. Only time I have ever done that. Also the last time I will ever to that. Maybe if I had Obama's telprompter contraption it would have come out better. I don't even use notes when doing talks at clubs. Should have stayed with what I know.
djrramsey 1 year ago 2
@djrramsey There is nothing wrong with using cards...just do NOT use a BS teleprompter as Obama uses!!!
THANKS for the great idea and yes, this is supposed to be fun but too many insecure people like to make a mystery out of it in order to make themselves look intelligent.
I like your K.I.S.S. attitude and adhere to it myself.
VMKinnovations 11 months ago
When I have time, I shall experiment this. Thanks for sharing.
DiscusKev 1 year ago
The two 5 gallon buckets will work great. Just use airline, not the airstone. Rubber band a rock to the end of the airstone to get it to stay on the bottom. Only fill the buckets 1/2 - 2/3 full since the surface area is the limiting factor. Good luck!
djrramsey 1 year ago
hi, could you help me confirm i understand this right
i could have like 2 separate 5 gallon buckets indoors
each with their own air stone and brine shrimp water
feed them algae or wafers etc
use an artificial light
and should have no problem?
love your videos
dramey03 1 year ago
Great idea,great video
dopeasscomputerinc 1 year ago
Inside, feed the baby brine shrimp spirulina and Selcon. Amazon or Ebay will have Selcon. $15-$20 for small bottle, but you only feed a drop a day to a decent size container. Leave the light on them 24 hours a day. Ready to go in 3 weeks. I would rather have 2 tanks in the space instead of a single 30 gallon because the process will crash after 4-6 weeks and you need a second one getting up to speed when the one crashes. Go back and forth. Probably put in a slow sponge filter w extra airstones.
djrramsey 1 year ago
Hi David, I have a question, I want to keep adult brine shrimp as a supplementry food source for my reef tank. I am going to have to do this indoors as it only gets warm enough a few months of the year here. So question{1} If there are no bird droppings etc, what would you use as a food source{spirolina}? Question{2} Could this be done under my reef tank with a light source and a 30g tank? Any suggestions?
dsaundry 1 year ago
what do u feed them?? and can u make their own food please reply im new to this
yoyoairsoft1411564 1 year ago
Hello. Sorry but I have a couple of other questions to ask.
1.Do they need to be cleaned? Like I meant their tub, when I tried to care for my brine shrimp indoors...I only got them to sub-adult then they all just died from dirty water. Won't this also happen in a outdoor tank?
2.I'm planning to use this method and compare it to my indoor method and see which is better. I will show a series using both over the summer and was wondering could I have your permission to use this method?
thatfishbreeder 1 year ago
1. When the tubs are outside, there is always bugs, leaves bird droppings landing in the water. That seems to generate enough food for the saltwater algae type stuff to provide food for the shrimp.
2. I am in Georgia, in the summer the afternoon sun will have the water over 100F. Just the morning sun works for the shrimp, it isn't so hot then. In the early spring and fall, I pull the tubs around to the side so they get most of the days sun. Not so hot, and not so much sun strength those times.
djrramsey 1 year ago
I have a couple of important questions that I'm hoping you can answer ASAP:
1.I'm guessing that the brine shrimp are eating upon diatoms and other algae particles floating in the water right? But how do they get there?
2.What did you mean by morning sunlight not the baking afternoon one?
3.Don't you have to do some form of mainetenance to keep them alive? I mean...when I tried another method of growing brine shrimp...they all died even though I did a bunch of water changes and fed them.
thatfishbreeder 1 year ago
Really love it, will try now.
auny1966 1 year ago
Thanks Sir, you just saved me a lot of money and made my bettas happy! I hope you post more videos like this.
Maguila0621 1 year ago
wat do you feed your brine shrimp to get them to be an adualt.
by the way great videos
aaroncarl5 1 year ago
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aaroncarl5 1 year ago
so do the brine shrimp need an airstone
aaroncarl5 1 year ago
@aaroncarl5
When I have the tubs inside I have an airline into the tub. No airstone, just a rock rubber banded tubing line for water movement. Outside I don't have a way to get air to them.
djrramsey 1 year ago
Your amazing. I just wish you would post more videos of raising live foods and breeding fish.
martialtheory 1 year ago
@martialtheory
I intend to put up quite a few more next year. Just takes a lot of time and planning to get it all together. With work and 100 tanks free time is tight.
djrramsey 1 year ago
@djrramsey
Oh I understand. By the way, do u breed rainbow fish? I would love to see a vid if you do. I always wanted to breed fish but was never successful
martialtheory 1 year ago
@djrramsey holy shit dude, 100 tanks!
sprayart94 1 year ago
oh my god!! :O if i could do this it would be so great.. could u tell more info on how to maintain the tubs. pleaseee
maycovera10 1 year ago
@maycovera10
There really isn't more to maintaining the tubs outside. I really do just pour the brine shrimp water into the tub, cover it when it rains, and start harvesting the shrimp in about 3 weeks. The only hard part is finding the right amount of light in the yard for the bacteria/algae to grow in the tub and feed the shrimp.
djrramsey 1 year ago
Fantastic video, quite informative but I personally think there is some missing info, is there a part 2?
DiscusKev 1 year ago
Great job!
goranmanevski 1 year ago
I'm trying to just raise the to adulthood, what are you feeding these to get them to grow and are u doing water changes?
sacboy20 1 year ago