@rayyanputra I kept them in the refrigerator and up to 3 days if I needed to. The low temperature will lower their metabolic rate and that would keep them alive without doing any extra effort.
They're sooo cute! I'd feel too bad to feed them to my fish! Lol maybe that's because I've bought Sea Monkeys several times... when they grow up they're kinda gross though. I like them as little squirming specks with a couple of legs :D
@lemwell0815 The brine shrimp could survive in fresh water for a short time. Usually, I just use some water from the hatcher for keeping them. You could use your fish tank water to rince them before feeding if you do concern the tank water quality.
@mstjwang Do you have to rinse the brine shrimp before feeding them to the fish? Like, will it hurt your fish? Also, can baby angelfish eat anything other than brine shrimp, like a sinking food pellet? It works for my goldifsh fry, but I don't know about angelfish fry.
@Pop12646Okami The 3 lakes' Afican cichlids live in alkaline water and tolerant to some salt. That's I could feed them without rinse. I think gold fish are strong, too. South america angel fishes need soft clean water. It would be better if you could rinse first. Your tank water is good enough to rinse brine shrimp.
@Pop12646Okami for those artificial food, you could throw little and observe if they know it is food. Also, there is risk the fry would be choked by the little pellet.
I have a problem.. sometimes my BBS hatch.. and sometimes they dont.. it gets very frustrating.. what i do is take 2 dasani water bottles, just regular size water bottles.. i cut them n stack them like how ppl do it.. and i fill it to about 75% with water and add about 2 tsp of salt to it and a tiny pitch of baking soda and a i set an air tube to the bottom and put a lamp over it.. now sometimes i get tons of bbs and sometimes i get very little to none.. what am i doing wrong here??
@s2ktuner My suggestion is keeping the correct ratio on the solution. It will increase the hatching rate. Also the light and temperature (72 F and above should be fine) triger the hatching process. around 3 days, the hatching rate would reach the max. The eggs quality would affect the hatching rate, too.
Hatching and harvesting the brine shrimp is so amazing because the effort you put to it comes out. Thanks for sharing, nice camera you have by the way =]
@choj5508 low temperature would reduce the metabolic rate. So they could survive a little longer in the small cup. You just take the quantity your fry need and keep the rest in fridge in the 3 days. And you would like to let the brine shrimp stay in the room temperature for a while before you feed fry. Or you could just mix some water from the tank then feed your fry.
@choj5508 buy your self a hydrometer, the kind that measures water density, i got the kind where you fill it up with water and the needle points to a number, you want it to be between 30-34 parts per thousand or 1.023 - 1.026 right now my 10 gallon brine shrimp tank is at 1.023 and i have an airstone running kinda low on pressure nothing to violently stir the water, and i have some algae wafers with pre cultured spirulina algae and i disolve it in a glass of water and it feed to the shrimp
@sprayart94 There is no efficient way to do that. The percentage of unhatched eggs would be low if the eggs quality is good. I would collect most of them in to a cup first. Let it stand still for a while. Those unhatched eggs will sink to to the bottom.
@sprayart94 You can also put them in a specialist hatchery which has a single "lit" end - the nauplii are light-seeking so will naturally swim toward the light source - sorting themselves out for you! ;-)
please if is not a secret, can you tell me how this hatchery works? do you use aeration? i always try to find a better way to hatch brine shrimp because i have many betta fry and i loose too many time collecting bbs. thanks
I stopped the air pump for collecting the hatched brine shrimps. Of course, I put the air pump higher than the hatchery. After most of the brine shimps swim into the pipe (it is impossible to let everyone goes in to the pipe), I disconnected the other side (the side connected to the air pump) for draining them to a small cup. Couple seconds are enough for getting most of them. Then I connected the pipe back to air pump and aerated for another couple hours since there were some unhatched eggs.
So I understand that U use the same pipe for both aerating and collecting without using an airstone, perhaps only the pipe covered at the end and with some tiny holes made by an needle. And u cover the bottle with something black letting the pipe under light. Is this true? I have another request if is not too much. As your nickname says, u are maybe come from Asia (Im from Romania) I need very much an advice about breeding goldfish ( a link on uyube) even if is not in english. Thanks
The black stuff is the plastic base of the hatchary and it is not DIY. I bought it from local fish store. Its design is simple. The aeration pipe just connects to the base and there is no airstone. The primary purpose of aeration is stirring the water. The air bubble size does not matter. Also there is no need to block the light to anything. Actually, the light is important for triggering the hatching (I read it from a web).
What do you used to feed them? (In case you have to keep them for awhile)
rayyanputra 1 week ago
@rayyanputra I kept them in the refrigerator and up to 3 days if I needed to. The low temperature will lower their metabolic rate and that would keep them alive without doing any extra effort.
mstjwang 6 days ago
@mstjwang Great tips here.. :) Just wanna know at what temperature you store them?
rayyanputra 6 days ago
@rayyanputra The temperature of your refrigerator where you keep vegetable would be fine. I guess it is around 3°C
mstjwang 6 days ago
Sea monkeys!!!!!!!
kennyduong1 1 month ago
They're sooo cute! I'd feel too bad to feed them to my fish! Lol maybe that's because I've bought Sea Monkeys several times... when they grow up they're kinda gross though. I like them as little squirming specks with a couple of legs :D
CherubHorse 2 months ago
can transfer to another container cup with different water or should i also put salt to the to the new container cup?
lemwell0815 3 months ago
@lemwell0815 The brine shrimp could survive in fresh water for a short time. Usually, I just use some water from the hatcher for keeping them. You could use your fish tank water to rince them before feeding if you do concern the tank water quality.
mstjwang 3 months ago
@mstjwang Do you have to rinse the brine shrimp before feeding them to the fish? Like, will it hurt your fish? Also, can baby angelfish eat anything other than brine shrimp, like a sinking food pellet? It works for my goldifsh fry, but I don't know about angelfish fry.
Pop12646Okami 2 months ago
@Pop12646Okami The 3 lakes' Afican cichlids live in alkaline water and tolerant to some salt. That's I could feed them without rinse. I think gold fish are strong, too. South america angel fishes need soft clean water. It would be better if you could rinse first. Your tank water is good enough to rinse brine shrimp.
mstjwang 2 months ago
@Pop12646Okami for those artificial food, you could throw little and observe if they know it is food. Also, there is risk the fry would be choked by the little pellet.
mstjwang 2 months ago
@mstjwang Well, I tried it with some older fry, about two months older, and after the pellet softens up, they just nibble at it.
I tried throwing a pellet in there and I think the younger fry are eating it, but I'm not sure.
Pop12646Okami 2 months ago
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tidy998 3 months ago
I have a problem.. sometimes my BBS hatch.. and sometimes they dont.. it gets very frustrating.. what i do is take 2 dasani water bottles, just regular size water bottles.. i cut them n stack them like how ppl do it.. and i fill it to about 75% with water and add about 2 tsp of salt to it and a tiny pitch of baking soda and a i set an air tube to the bottom and put a lamp over it.. now sometimes i get tons of bbs and sometimes i get very little to none.. what am i doing wrong here??
s2ktuner 6 months ago
@s2ktuner My suggestion is keeping the correct ratio on the solution. It will increase the hatching rate. Also the light and temperature (72 F and above should be fine) triger the hatching process. around 3 days, the hatching rate would reach the max. The eggs quality would affect the hatching rate, too.
mstjwang 6 months ago
Lol just noticed spore alot like seamonkeys u guide them there whole way to death
bloomb132 7 months ago
Damn dude u got a seamonkey civilization
bloomb132 7 months ago
Awesome answers to viewers questions....well done.
davidloveco 9 months ago
one way to get them big ,and keep them alive is to get a bigger container (1-2 gallon) and do waterchanges +feed them seamonkey food...
iownudie108 1 year ago
So clean D:
JBXyooj 1 year ago
Hatching and harvesting the brine shrimp is so amazing because the effort you put to it comes out. Thanks for sharing, nice camera you have by the way =]
DiscusKev 1 year ago
how do u keep the brine shrimp to survive.....cuz i took my out and most of them died the next day?????pls let me knw u guys do it
choj5508 1 year ago
@choj5508 fridge should be able to keep them alive for 3 days.
mstjwang 1 year ago
@mstjwang....i thought they have to be in a warm place....cuz i need them to feed my betta fry.....
choj5508 1 year ago
@choj5508 low temperature would reduce the metabolic rate. So they could survive a little longer in the small cup. You just take the quantity your fry need and keep the rest in fridge in the 3 days. And you would like to let the brine shrimp stay in the room temperature for a while before you feed fry. Or you could just mix some water from the tank then feed your fry.
mstjwang 1 year ago
@choj5508 buy your self a hydrometer, the kind that measures water density, i got the kind where you fill it up with water and the needle points to a number, you want it to be between 30-34 parts per thousand or 1.023 - 1.026 right now my 10 gallon brine shrimp tank is at 1.023 and i have an airstone running kinda low on pressure nothing to violently stir the water, and i have some algae wafers with pre cultured spirulina algae and i disolve it in a glass of water and it feed to the shrimp
MustanGT2003 10 months ago
oh wow look at how many you have! great video!
keely010 1 year ago
How do you separate these form unhatched eggs?
sprayart94 1 year ago
@sprayart94 There is no efficient way to do that. The percentage of unhatched eggs would be low if the eggs quality is good. I would collect most of them in to a cup first. Let it stand still for a while. Those unhatched eggs will sink to to the bottom.
mstjwang 1 year ago
@sprayart94 You can also put them in a specialist hatchery which has a single "lit" end - the nauplii are light-seeking so will naturally swim toward the light source - sorting themselves out for you! ;-)
smidoid 9 months ago
I have sea monkeys witch are basically brine shrimp, would it be all right if i use brine shrimp eggs? Can I buy eggs at petco?
thapizzakillr 1 year ago
can you grow the shrimp and cook them up
651DSM 2 years ago
@651DSM, You feed them to you're fish... They only get like 8mm long full grown or something.
175myles 2 years ago
where do u go to get the eggs?
RockerTyTy777 2 years ago
please if is not a secret, can you tell me how this hatchery works? do you use aeration? i always try to find a better way to hatch brine shrimp because i have many betta fry and i loose too many time collecting bbs. thanks
eliandraghici 2 years ago
I stopped the air pump for collecting the hatched brine shrimps. Of course, I put the air pump higher than the hatchery. After most of the brine shimps swim into the pipe (it is impossible to let everyone goes in to the pipe), I disconnected the other side (the side connected to the air pump) for draining them to a small cup. Couple seconds are enough for getting most of them. Then I connected the pipe back to air pump and aerated for another couple hours since there were some unhatched eggs.
mstjwang 2 years ago
So I understand that U use the same pipe for both aerating and collecting without using an airstone, perhaps only the pipe covered at the end and with some tiny holes made by an needle. And u cover the bottle with something black letting the pipe under light. Is this true? I have another request if is not too much. As your nickname says, u are maybe come from Asia (Im from Romania) I need very much an advice about breeding goldfish ( a link on uyube) even if is not in english. Thanks
eliandraghici 2 years ago
The black stuff is the plastic base of the hatchary and it is not DIY. I bought it from local fish store. Its design is simple. The aeration pipe just connects to the base and there is no airstone. The primary purpose of aeration is stirring the water. The air bubble size does not matter. Also there is no need to block the light to anything. Actually, the light is important for triggering the hatching (I read it from a web).
mstjwang 2 years ago