Fairy Shrimp

These fairy shrimp are from Carrizo Plain in Central California. Also called brine shrimp, they live in seasonal pools of water that often have very high salt and chemical content. Their eggs will remain viable for many years in the dirt, awaiting the next wet year. In previous years one could buy a starter kit to raise these arthropods from advertisements in comic books. They were advertised as 'sea monkeys'.

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• fairy shrimp
• brine shrimp
• carrizo plain
• sea monkeys

[9857111]

These animals were wild caught, so some probably just have injuries and deformities from living in their natural environment. Thanks for your comments!

[DarkZekromXD1001]

@DarkZekromXD1001 cool but i'm gonna have to seperate them soon.

[DarkZekromXD1001]

@kratos3111 i can, my fairy shrimps hatch'ed with my triops on christmas and it was very cold, and your right its all about the temp, if you have a lamp, shine on the eggs and wait till they hatch, also if you have a heater that plugs in use it, it will make the room 74'F-80'F and the cold temp will be 22'C-29'C, good enough for the fairy shrimps to hatch and in right temp. hope this help'ed.

[DarkZekromXD1001]

@AKLd95 lol mine's to!

[DarkZekromXD1001]

i have a lot of these with my 3 or 4 triops. mostly the bigger triops would use them as slave's just by scaring them, soon they pick up a very small gravel and put where the bigger triop wants it. i call fairy abuse!

[BartG19]

I just bought 100.000 of fairy shrimp eggs. Looked so cheap, no idea what the value is. These animals look funny.

[theeReddVision]

they look so cute and healthy:)) whats up with the one with the blackened tail, and i saw a male with part of his arm being blackened...???

[AKLd95]

these hatched together with my triops! :D

[kratos3111]

Can anyone please tell me how to get the right temp?

I live in Australia and its Winter. So when i poured the water purifier in,

they did not hatch 5 days after that. I think its because of temp.

Anyone can help?

[SlimTwisted]

While brine and fresh water species all fall under the genus Artemia; it is true that the term "fairy shrimp" is often used to classify the fresh water examples while the generic term "brine shrimp" often blankets all of the salt water species. Sea-Monkeys is the brand name for brine shrimp sold in hatching kits/ aquarium pets in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom since 1960. Google "Anostraca" for more information on 300 species, grouped into 26 genera in eight families.