No-shell brine shrimp eggs (1 Viewer)

[fishcraze]

Has anyone here tried to hatch these eggs? I placed an order for these types of eggs yesterday from Brineshirmp direct. Just want to know if the hatching is efficient and easy?
they said you can even just feed these eggs to the fishes w/o hatching since there's no shells?

 

[Melodyepta]

I have used the decapsulated artemia cysts from Seahorsesource.com and have had great success with hatching. You have to keep them moving about...in other words have some slight water movement for best results. Otherwise they all sink to the bottom and your % hatch isn't as high.

 

[fishcraze]

cool, thanks.

 

[Guest]

I love them, will never go back to the others. They hatch well, I hatch a new bunch every one to two days. My whole tank loves them.

Jen

 

[fishcraze]

yeah.. i got tired of scanting the baby bs from the shells eventhough I have just done it three times w/ the free egg bags in the breeding kit
however, i'm not sure if we get much brine shrimps from the equivalent one gram scoop.
The Premium Grade eggs are guaranteedto give 240,000 baby bs per one gram of cysts. Meanwhile, the shell-free eggs are said to give only 65,000 bbs per equivalent gram (?). But at the section where they listed the price for the shell-free eggs, they said the $19.99 bottle (13oz) woud give '200 one-gram equivalent hatches of brine shrimp egg" -- not sure what one-gram hatch they are talking about here - the 245,000 or the 65,000? I hope the the 65,000 was just a typo, that it could be 265000 or at least 165000, since 65000 per gram is quite low efficiency compared to the regular eggs!

 

[Guest]

yea, sure, whatever you say

 

[AggieBrandon]

I bought a pound of the 80% hatch rate eggs...I use the scoop that came with the eggs. I use two hatchers and feed the bbs to my tanks every day. I found that if you cover the hatcher with some towels and let it sit for about an hour that all the bbs will settle to the bottom and you can siphon them out very easily. I have yet to have any problems. I have been hatching them out for about two months or so. I haven't tried the decapsulated eggs yet. I think I will stick to the regular eggs though since I can get a pound of them for about 16 bucks.

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[fishcraze]

do you guys put a light source on the bottle for hatching?

On the 1st batch, i didn't put any light source for it and in the
garage, with slow air bubble rate.

On the 2nd batch i put the bottle next to the 9w PC light on the sump, and increased the bubble rate a little bit.. It appeared that more eggs hatched this way - not sure the lighting or the air rate..

 

[AggieBrandon]

I have my hatchers set up on the same shelf as my phytoplankton culture. I am using 2 48" 6500K fluorescent bulbs on that for about 16 hours a day. I use a pretty heavy bubble rate. I set my bubble rate so that when they pop on the surface that the water isn't splashing out of the container. The eggs stay moving and hatch well Many people swear by having a light source on the egg hatcher. I have read that it isn't necessary but that the temp is the real factor. I think I read that keeping the water around 80 degrees is perfect. The eggs will hatch at lower temperatures but will take longer for them to hatch.

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