How to hatch brine shrimp

[Benji k]

Is ther any other way to hatch brine shrimp other then brine shrimp eggs.

 

[FishandBirdLover]

Is ther any other way to hatch brine shrimp other then brine shrimp eggs.

I think that would be the only way. Maybe your LPS sells some live.

 

[Benji k]

I think that would be the only way. Maybe your LPS sells some live.

Yeah I’ll get some eggs if that’s the only way

 

[GaryE]

Umm, hatch and eggs go together. They can't appear out of thin air!

 

[betta4ever!]

Umm, hatch and eggs go together. They can't appear out of thin air!

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[TwoTankAmin]

Here is the thing about hatching your own BBS. If you do not feed them withing about an hour of hatching they are almost devoid of nutritional value. The same applies to adult brine. They need to be gut loaded before they are fed. Many years ago on another fish forum I got into an "agrguement" re brine shrimp. I consulted with a Ph.D. on the subject. He wrote the following article on foods for marine fish. It includes a lot of info re love foods including both BBS and regilar adults brine. The biggest differentce in feeding brine to marine fish v.x. fresh water is that the marine fish need some extra ingredients in what they are fed before they get fed to one's fish.

In all mostly all other respects the info in the article apliec equally ti brine nor matter whether they are fed to fresh of salt water fish. I have done a bit od feeding live foods including BBS but I abandoned that for a number of reasons. However, I have used frozen foods for decades. These include both frozen BBS (too pricey to do regularly) and adult brine. I feed a number of frozen foods as te next best alternative to feeding them live.

Here is the article I mentioned above. scroll down to the part on Brine Shrimp, but the rest is pretty interesting.
https://reefs.com/magazine/aquarium...ive-foods-for-the-coral-reef-aquarium-part-2/

For information on Dr. Toonen Robert John Toonen University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | UH Manoa · Institute of Marine Biology MS Marine Sciences, PhD Population Biology

 

[connorlindeman]

Yep you need to use the eggs to hatch them

 

[Naughts]

Ocean Nutrition do instant baby brine shrimp food in a jar, they are already hatched but not live food. Fish love it.

Instant Baby Brine Shrump, Aquarium Nutritious Supplements Food, Aqua Yums, San Diego

Ocean Nutrition Aquarium Food Instant Baby Brine Shrump ,Aquarium Supplement in san diego,CA.

oceannutrition.com

 

[AbbeysDad]

Brine shrimp

 

[FishandBirdLover]

I hatch mine in a makeshift hatchery but you can buy nice brine shrimp hatcheries online.