Baby Brine Shrimp For Fry?

[iheartjeffrey]

I just got my very first batch of fry yesterday, 11 total. I have been feeding them finely crushed flake food. But was thinking about feeding them baby brine shrimp. Do pet shops generally sell any baby brine shrimp live?

 

[helterskelter]

Very few sell live BBS, I've only ever seen two shop on 25 years that sold it alive!

The very best way is to go on ebay and order some egg's and hatch them your self.

 

[OldMan47]

BBS are almost never for sale at local shops. They are something that you hatch yourself from Artemia cysts that can be purchased almost anywhere. A hatcher as simple as a 2 litre drink bottle powered by an air pump can be quite effective for that hatching. It only takes about 2 days for the cysts to hatch out. A day or so after hatching, the original BBS will have lost much of its nutritional value by having the BBS use up its yolk sac.

 

[raza]

It depends if your in the UK/USA or another country!

 

[TwoTankAmin]

You can buy frozen bbs. I suggest Hikari's Bio-Pure line.

 

[OldMan47]

I stand corrected. BBS is never available fresh in the US. In other locations, availability may be different.