Collecting the hatched brine shrimp

After 24 hours, collect the hatched brine shrimp from the bottom. Those black spots are unhatched eggs.

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• Brine Shrimps
• Collecting

[lemwell0815]

can transfer to another container cup with different water or should i also put salt to the to the new container cup?

[mstjwang]

@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.

[Pop12646Okami]

@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.

[mstjwang]

@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]

@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.

[s2ktuner]

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??

[mstjwang]

@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.

[kennyduong1]

Sea monkeys!!!!!!!

[CherubHorse]

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

[Pop12646Okami]

@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.

[tidy998]

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