Feeding brine shrimp eggs???

[Magnum Man]

I got a nice brine shrimp hatchery today... so I'll be starting in to hatch in the coming weeks...
but this brings up the question... is there any nutritional value to feeding the eggs, or does the shell make them indigestible for the fish??? or is there any other issue???

 

[Sgooosh]

I got a nice brine shrimp hatchery today... so I'll be starting in to hatch in the coming weeks...
but this brings up the question... is there any nutritional value to feeding the eggs, or does the shell make them indigestible for the fish??? or is there any other issue???

Decapsulated (Non-Hatching) Brine Shrimp Eggs

Decapsulated Non-Hatching Brine Shrimp Eggs are fed directly to a wide variety of tropical fish - providing excellent nutritional value without the necessity and down-time of hatching. An excellent feed for angelfish, goldfish, and guppies! Also well acce

www.brineshrimpdirect.com

This is pretty interesting, I think you could get away with just soaking the eggs

 

[MaloK]

You can use bleach to decapsulate the eggs for food.

It seems pretty dangerous to feed the shells to the fishes. If a small fish eats just a few of these shells or unhatched eggs, its intestinal tract may be blocked causing death.

FA18/FA023: Decapsulating Brine Shrimp Eggs

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Most of the time only the unhatched ones are fed to the fishes

But I wouldn't waste hatching quality eggs for that.

 

[GaryE]

The shell will kill your fish.

I buy decapsulated for periods when I can't hatch eggs, but they are not nearly as good as hatching them out. They are just another dead food if the decapsulate them, and it is work. A hatchery is a piece of cake. A couple two litre bottles, some good scissors, and you are in business.

I can make up instructions for the easiest way, if you want.

 

[sharkweek178]

Re: using bleach to deshell the eggs.

Seems like it would just be easier and safer to hatch them.

 

[MaloK]

Re: using bleach to deshell the eggs.

Seems like it would just be easier and safer to hatch them.

It's been done since 1990. Not only it disinfects but it ensure a very high level of success.

 

[GaryE]

You can buy decapsulated eggs cheaply, as they do it to expired, low grade eggs. They are great food, but they float, like a flake, eventually descending. Good nutritional quality, low hobby usefulness compared to hatching.
I hatch cysts most days in a simple set up made from bottles.

 

[sharkweek178]

You can buy decapsulated eggs cheaply, as they do it to expired, low grade eggs. They are great food, but they float, like a flake, eventually descending. Good nutritional quality, low hobby usefulness compared to hatching.
I hatch cysts most days in a simple set up made from bottles.

I use this hatchery. @Ellie Potts told me about it here. The design is ingenious. There's a hole in the top that lets in light that attracts the BBS right to the collecting cup. Baffling separates them from the cysts. The only drawback is that they are pretty small yields. But for what I need, it's perfect.

Amazon.com

 

[Magnum Man]

That is the one I just bought... looking forward to finding the time to get it started... been doing the Freeze Dried cubes for a while... & I have been able to get Spirulina fed frozen brine shrimp cubes lately... in any form, most all my fish gobble them up... expect live will be a big hit

 

[MuddyWaters]

I got a nice brine shrimp hatchery today... so I'll be starting in to hatch in the coming weeks...
but this brings up the question... is there any nutritional value to feeding the eggs, or does the shell make them indigestible for the fish??? or is there any other issue???

Don't drop the hatched shrimp!

 

[ghyti]

Two 2 liter soda bottles with the bottoms cut off and turned upside down with an airline are much better. A lot cheaper and you can adjust the size of the hatch to match the need, The hatched babies are better than the de-capsulated ones because the movement attracts the baby fish and triggers the them to eat.