I like to use Cooking Salt as this gives me the best results at the measurements given above.
25w of light will be fine if your recepticle is close enough to gain the heat from it (experiment on this)
The light is left on 24/7.
I use double ended medicine spoons, The 5ml end I use for salt measurement and the 2.5 end for brineshrimp egg measurement.
I would feed a batch of Killifish fry a dropper full 3 times a day clearing after each feed. Strain the dropper full of artemia through a cotton hankie and rinse with tank water over a jam-jar. Then swirl the hankie in the tank of fry.
You will always get wastage with Artemia cysts.
You can purchase cysts more cheaply from http
/www.ta-aquaculture.co.uk/
under Brineshrimp Eggs in the left-hand menu.
The shrimp will not live long after they hatch if larger quarters and food is not supplied to them.
Yeah I culture all my own live foods namely
Paramoecium, Vinegar eel, Microworm, Bananaworm, Grindalworm, Whiteworm, Drosophila, Chlorella sp. algae, Mexican Gammarus... etc.
for some more articles please read.
http
/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/340027-forty-shades-of-green/
http
/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/337192-pardon-my-gammarus/
http
/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/332837-a-shrimp-from-the-orient/
http
/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=300818&st=0
http
/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=310323&st=0
http
/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=301746&st=0
amongst others
Regards
C