Brine Shrimp Hatchery

[Tolak]

I built this brine shrimp hatchery a while back, got the idea from another breeder. It's a pine box, 17" wide, 22" tall, 8" deep, with a plywood back & door. A couple coats of gloss white, a bulb socket with a 40 watt bulb, and a box with a dimmer finish it up. The dimmer lets me adjust the temperature. The whole thing cost around $20, not counting the air supply.

I have a cut down 2 liter bottle in it right now, it will hold a couple of glass one gallon jars. Using the jars I can hatch out 6 to 8 teaspoons of brine shrimp every 24 hours. The maximum I'm hatching out right now is one teaspoon daily, just a little planning for the future.

 

[Bloo]

Fab setup.

 

[Qays]

wow thats great!

Maybe you could do the same with daphnia. Theyre the easiest to culture. Put them in a tub and feed a drop of liquifry every day!

Works for me

 

[BigC]

Hi Tolak,
I also use the lighting as a heater but I use banks of these.

The bottle in the pic is only 500ml but I have used 2ltr bottles in the past.
Regards
BigC

 

[Bloo]

BigC, why is there an airline with clamp sticking out the bottom ?

 

[andyj]

I presume it's to 'drain' off a qty of brineshripe when they're hatched and ready to feed to the fish

 

[Bloo]

Ah that would make sense ! Knew there had to be a very good reason.

 

[BigC]

I presume it's to 'drain' off a qty of brineshripe when they're hatched and ready to feed to the fish

Yeah, exactly that bloozoo,
if you direct the light source close to the bottom of the bottle then the newly hatched nauplii congregate and can be easily drained off and sifted through a brineshrimp net or cotton hankerchief, washed with freshwater and fed directly to your fry/sml fish.
Regards
BigC