Brine Shrimp

[Fisheyes]

If I am geeting a good brine shrimp hatch in 24 hrs. Is there any advantage to let the hatchery run longer .Example--- do the brine shrimp get larger ????

Ken ;D

No there is no advantage. Brine shrimp is at its nutritional best just after hatching and goes down hill from then on.

Mike

Ken

Mike is right....the only real nutritional value that brine shrimp have is the yolk sack. They start to burn that up as soon as they hatch, and nutrition starts to decline.

Tony

[daninthesand]

What about raising brine shrimp to adulthood? Any value in that if it can be done easily?

I remember I used to be able to get adult brine shrimp (live) from the LFS. That was 30 years ago mind you! LOL

Daniel

[brewmaster15]

Some interesting reads here....

enrichement is being researched thoroughly as many feel it is necessary or beneficial (see link below)

For anyone interested in artemia nutrition I had these sites book marked....

http://www.aka.org/AKA/Foods/artemia.html
http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/CTSA/publications/Artemia.htm
http://www.artemia-international.com/tech_artemia.html#aca

Hth,
al

[ReeferKimberly]

um this may sound weird but i have this one hatchery that i got really lazy with. i have three runnig at a time so i just kinda forgot about this one for a while. the three are always under a regular old 40 watt light bulb and have aireators. so with this constant light, if i don't clean them out every three day and start a new batch, they get terribly overgrown with algae. so as i was saying, i hadn't cleaned this one for about a week. i looked at it a week ago and it had a lot of algae but still bbs alive, and a lot of them still there. so i just left it there and waited to see what happened. well today it's been going for about three weeks, i changed a lot of the water, as best i could, replaced the salt, and just left it be. no feeding whatsoever. well now about half the bs are 5 times as big and look to be about half the size of adults. i don't know if they are eating eachother or the algae but something is keeping them going. i'm gonna wait and see if they will grow more and live and breed in their little self-sustained world....
kim

[Discusgeo]

Daniel if you want to grow Brine Shrimp or anyone else who keeps them more than a day need to get SELCO (Self Emulsified Liquid Concentrate)
from Brine Shrimp Direct. It's a Artemia or rotifer enrichment formula and is rich in Highly Unsaturated Fatty Acids (HUFA's) and is super concentrated. Just .3 grams (~10 drops) per liter or quart of water is sufficient for enriching hundreds of thousands of Artemia nauplii and adults as well as rotifers.
Here's the link:
http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/brineshrimpproduct4survey.htm#selco
George

[Fisheyes]

If you take your 24 hr hatch and freeze them in Ice cube trays I wonder how much nutritional value is lost. ???

[arpanlib]

hi,
i doubt if any nutitional value is lost, but am not sure.

i have been doing this for quiet sometime now and feed the discus fry the frozen BBS and they seem to grow well - without diseases, without odd shapes and grow well like the ones which are fed LIVE BBS.

but the freezing process should be fast enough. i.e. the BBS should be cleaned in freshwater and then frozen in small quantities so that they freeze within 20 - 25 min. from cleaning.

it has worked well for me.

hope this helps.

arpanlib