What are you doing today?

[Lanpenn]

Today a person mowed the lawn. In Brazil, is less expensive to call a third person to do this work than buying all the equipment, at least in small to medium lawns. The Brazilian gasoline is also crap (and expensive), with a minimum of 27 % of ethanol (or 25 % for "premium" in some gas stations). So many gardening types of equipment suffer from poor fuel.

I also got some grass clippings. This small mountain of grass will turn into a compost soon.

 

[gwand]

I just started my very first brine shrimp hatch. Hopefully I will see babies tomorrow.

 

[OldFishKeeper]

Good day to complete my Python Clone PVC Aquarium Water Refiller. The control valve goes inside the aquariums so I can hang a small bucket to disperse the water. Yes, I have too much free time !

 

[OldFishKeeper]

I just started my very first brine shrimp hatch. Hopefully I will see babies tomorrow.

What are you using? I have the small, black, round hatchery for convenient small batches, the DIY 2 liter plastic soda bottle ones as well as the large Ziss one that Aquarium Co-op sells. They all have a use, depending upon how many one needs.

 

[gwand]

What are you using? I have the small, black, round hatchery for convenient small batches, the DIY 2 liter plastic soda bottle ones as well as the large Ziss one that Aquarium Co-op sells. They all have a use, depending upon how many one needs.

Amazon.com

 

[GaryE]

Today a person mowed the lawn. In Brazil, is less expensive to call a third person to do this work than buying all the equipment, at least in small to medium lawns.

The closest I can come to this is I have a long driveway up the house, in the 50 metre range. So if we get more than 5 cm of snow, a guy comes with a plow on his truck and clears it for us. It too is cheaper than buying all the equipment. The man who does it is an old harbour pilot who can't sit still, so he prays for snow more for something to do than for the money. He's in his eighties, but he stays in the truck.

This week, we've had 3 cm twice, so he's very disappointed and probably driving his poor wife crazy.

 

[OldFishKeeper]

Amazon.com

Yep, I have two of those for smaller batches. Since hatching time depends upon temperature, I purchased a thermostatically controlled heating pad (designed for reptiles), set the temp to 82F and most hatched within 24 hours. Works great...no air stone or shells and easy collection.

 

[gwand]

Yep, I have two of those for smaller batches. Since hatching time depends upon temperature, I purchased a thermostatically controlled heating pad (designed for reptiles), set the temp to 82F and most hatched within 24 hours. Works great...no air stone or shells and easy collection.

Yeah. I’m a bit lazy.

 

[OldFishKeeper]

Yeah. I’m a bit lazy.

I am more than a bit!

 

[GaryE]

I hatch brine shrimp daily. I don't heat - it takes 36 hours at 22c, in a window using the inverted bottle method. I feed the early hatch in the morning, to fry only, then the stragglers later in the day, to all the small fish. I keep 2 2 litre bottles in rotation. No lights, ambient heating, great hatches. I've also used 750ml bottles at times.

With the weak Canadian dollar and high shipping costs, I stopped using US brine shrimp and switched to Chinese cysts. I get a better hatch for the price. It's excellent, and all I've used for about 5 years now. I buy 2 pounds per year, and it's my staple food since I like my small fish. I could use less, but the costs of processed foods have climbed, and bbs has stayed pretty stable (touch wood). It comes to about .50 to .75 a day, which isn't bad for 50 plus tanks that get it. The initial outlay at $80 cad a pound is fierce, but looked at across a longer period, it's not bad.

It's so much better than flake or pellets, in its results.

 

[GaryE]

I must be doing something right. Mixed in with the usual drivel, Facebook is sending me ads for local businesses in a region 1500 km away from here. I seem to have given the almighty algorithm indigestion.

About a week ago, they started proposing really bizarre religious cult videos that would have made people laugh in the 17th century, then I started getting videos made for men terrified of women, and now I am being offered fresh farm products and garage services in rural central Canada. For the longest time, they had me figured out, with fish and science videos, local charities and businesses, and dark humour comedians.

The ways of the algorithm are mysterious.

 

[Alice B]

Washing and drying quilt fabric. preparing to sew.... and rotating chicken eggs

 

[gwand]

I’m sitting in my seat in the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall waiting for a 3 pm concert by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra:Bach cantata No. 1 Oratorio, Bach Brandenburg concerto No. 3, Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grossi No. 8 in G min and Vivaldi Gloria. It’s a holiday concert as you can see. Should be fantastic.

 

[Lanpenn]

I hatch brine shrimp daily. I don't heat - it takes 36 hours at 22c, in a window using the inverted bottle method. I feed the early hatch in the morning, to fry only, then the stragglers later in the day, to all the small fish. I keep 2 2 litre bottles in rotation. No lights, ambient heating, great hatches. I've also used 750ml bottles at times.

With the weak Canadian dollar and high shipping costs, I stopped using US brine shrimp and switched to Chinese cysts. I get a better hatch for the price. It's excellent, and all I've used for about 5 years now. I buy 2 pounds per year, and it's my staple food since I like my small fish. I could use less, but the costs of processed foods have climbed, and bbs has stayed pretty stable (touch wood). It comes to about .50 to .75 a day, which isn't bad for 50 plus tanks that get it. The initial outlay at $80 cad a pound is fierce, but looked at across a longer period, it's not bad.

It's so much better than flake or pellets, in its results.

In most works related to brine shrimp I read from journals, the brine shrimp from Great Salt Lake is considered the best. However, there are good strains from other countries. One time I bought brine shrimp cysts from China (in 2019) and, in 2021, I decided to test them and the thing looked bizarre on the water. I do not know if the eggs were expired.

Once again, I collapsed my brine shrimp culture. Molasses is a terrible food to control the feeding dosage because it turns cloudy only a few hours later. Therefore, I suspended the cultivation for a while and transformed it into a freshwater setup (the water is circulating with the air pump yet). Now, I do not know if is possible to cultivate bloodworms without attracting other mosquitoes who carry diseases.

 

[Back in the fold]

Yep, I have two of those for smaller batches. Since hatching time depends upon temperature, I purchased a thermostatically controlled heating pad (designed for reptiles), set the temp to 82F and most hatched within 24 hours. Works great...no air stone or shells and easy collection.

I’ve had one of those round black BBS hatchers for a long time now . I set mine on top of a seedling heat mat (3 watt) and I get a hatch in about 18 hours . That thing is perfect if you don’t need a lot of BBS . When I need a lot I use my San Francisco Bay Brand 1 liter pop bottle hatchery . It’s that one that aerates from the bottom and you drain the nauplii out through that airline . It is the cats meow . I got it from www.brineshrimpdirect.com