Brine shrimp hatchery dish (1 Viewer)

[ITreefer]

Anybody else using this thing?
I can't believe how stupid easy it is. Literally set it and forget it, no power or air required.

 

[SCUBAFreaky]

One of these has been sitting in my BRS cart for a few weeks but I haven't pulled the trigger on it yet. Good to know it really works!! Curious, from where did you buy the brine shrimp eggs?

 

[ITreefer]

I bought it as a package deal from brine shrimp direct which included the eggs and spirulina powder for enrichment.

These are the eggs that were included:

 

[nightster]

I got one, makes it really easy. I can't keep them alive any longer than a few days in my grow out tank though.

 

[Erin]

Basically sea monkeys.

 

[Tenny]

I've had one in my cart for weeks also.

I think they said you can only get "babies" out of it, and if you want to grow them to adults you need an air stone and some of those other items. Which makes sense but the addition effort required has held me off.

 

[ITreefer]

I've had one in my cart for weeks also.

I think they said you can only get "babies" out of it, and if you want to grow them to adults you need an air stone and some of those other items. Which makes sense but the addition effort required has held me off.

Indeed. All I need is the BBS to feed small clowns, so it works perfectly for me.

 

[steveb]

Basically sea monkeys.

I had one of these when I was a kid ahhh the 70's...

 

[ITreefer]

LOL

 

[Erin]

I had one of these when I was a kid ahhh the 70's...

I think they still sell them

 

[steveb]

Probably.

I have two of these now.

 

[RobbyeD]

I've been using the 'Brine Shrimp Hatchery Dish' from Brine Shrimp Direct Inc for almost 2 months now. It works great.

I just add tank water to the fill-line and I have been using about 2/3 scoop of BRS brine shrimp eggs and in ~24 hours I can start harvesting. Each batch provides enough for daily feedings for my pipefish for around 5 consecutive days. I take the brine shrimp directly from the dish. Also, I have tried adding a little phytoplankton, and a pinch of spirulina powder (or a pinch of soy bean flour) around day 3 attempting to 'gut load' the little 'sea monkeys.' Seems to work fine.

Just my $0.02

Happy reefing,
RobbyeD

 

[ITreefer]

I got one, makes it really easy. I can't keep them alive any longer than a few days in my grow out tank though.

Is it a grow out tank specifically for brine shrimp?

You may be able to learn from my failure.
I absent-mindedly dumped baby brine shrimp into my clownfish larvae tank when they were two days old. They were all dead by the next day.
However, the baby brine shrimp have grown up nicely either on rotifers or RG complete that is in the tank.

 

[nightster]

Is it a grow out tank specifically for brine shrimp?

You may be able to learn from my failure.
I absent-mindedly dumped baby brine shrimp into my clownfish larvae tank when they were two days old. They were all dead by the next day.
However, the baby brine shrimp have grown up nicely either on rotifers or RG complete that is in the tank.

Yea, i had a 5g with a sponge filter. I tried feeding spirulina powder. They all died lol

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[ITreefer]

Yea, i had a 5g with a sponge filter. I tried feeding spirulina powder. They all died lol

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Switch out the sponge filter for simple a AirStone, feed them RG complete and you should have some success.
If you try it, please let us know how it goes.

 

[nightster]

Switch out the sponge filter for simple a AirStone, feed them RG complete and you should have some success.
If you try it, please let us know how it goes.

If I come up with another tank I'll definitely give it a shot. My 5g is already getting used for something else.

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[ITreefer]

Here's some of the clownfish larvae-killing brine shrimp. 10 days old at this point.

 

[nightster]

Wow mine didn't look anything like that, I had a few last like 7 or 8 days and they were still tiny.

 

[ITreefer]

Brine monsters at 14 days old. The large ones are over half an inch long..

 

[nightster]

Pretty cool, I didn't realize they got so big.

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