Brine Shrimp-How Do You Bread Them?

[esjlong]

Hi all,


I am currently based in England and looking to start up a little brine shrimp facility so I can feed my fish. (I like to vary their diet between, flakes, pellets, blood worm etc)


Does anyone know where (or what website) I can go to??

Also I have found lots of info on 'sea monkeys' which are a form of brine shrimp-has anyone tried feeding these to their fish?? Are they safe??? Even worth a try??


Many thanks

Emma

 

[jacko32]

hi you can buy a brine shrimp hatchery from ebay with everything you need to get started including instructions on how to set it all going dont know about see monkeys i culture my own worms aswell also from ebay white worms, micro worms and grindal worms

 

[helterskelter]

Dont breed them their too slow and not enought numbers.

Just buy the eggs off ebay or something and hatch them. it's easy and al fish love them.
I just use a old milk bottle to hatch mine in, you dont need to much stuff, just a good air pump.

 

[the biffster]

a 2 ltr plastic bottle a handful of aquarium salt
and air line and fine air stone and place on a window sill
bingo 24 to 48 hrs later brine shrimp i used to feed them on a bit by
rubbing fish food til it was real fine powder and putting just a pinch
in every other day for two weeks they used to grow quite big and my
fish used to love them and so did the fry

 

[OldMan47]

Another way to produce brine shrimp that works is to use a hatch n feeder. I do not know if they are available in the UK but lots of people sell them in the US. This has a picture of one.
The essence of the feeder is that the BBS find their way into the tank shortly after they hatch. I can tell you it is funny to watch a tank full of fry hovering around the screen where the shrimp swim into the open tank.

 

[OldMan47]

I just got a picture of my hatch n feeder in use on a black chin tank. Guess where the BBS come out into the tank.

This shows the whole feeder / hatcher