View Full Version : brine shrimp that dont grow Help!!!!!
Dragon_Lord_Tia
02-14-2003, 11:03 PM
i have been trying to grow brine shrimp for mounths and they get a few millimeters long and die please help it is so frustraiting:mad:
odessa
02-15-2003, 1:07 AM
Here's a link to a good article about raising them. http://www.thekrib.com/Food/brine-raising.html
If you ar hatching them as a food souce it is best to use them within the first 24-48 hours they retain more protien from the egg.
wetmanNY
02-15-2003, 1:55 PM
There are so many live foods to raise with less struggle than raising brine shrimp to maturity. Don't they need "green" salt water?
How about daphnia? Or moina?
OrionGirl
02-15-2003, 5:32 PM
I've found that feeding the buggers is quite easy. Take yeast (like you use for baking bread). In about a tsp of luke warm water, add 10-15 GRAINS of sugar, 5-10 GRAINS of yeast. Let sit until it gets cloudy and a bit foamy. Add this to up to about 5 gallons of water with brine shrimp. It will cloud the water, and the brine will feed happily on the yeast.
Feed them about every other day. Make sure the water stays brackish to marine--1.016 to about 1.022 worked fo rme. Sudden temperature changes are very bad, and will kill most of them off. I never heated my tank, and had no problems, though they grow slower than if you heat the tank. The reason I didn't heat is to reduce evaporation and salinity spikes.
I agree, though--there are easier live foods to raise. Vinegar eels and microworms have replaced live brine for my killifish.
Dragon_Lord_Tia
02-15-2003, 7:35 PM
(1) wth are vineagar eels and how big do they grow
(2)how much on average do they cost
(3)are they big enough to feed 10 to 11'' oscars
(4)does anyone know a sleeping cod website
Neither baby brine shrimp, adult brine, nor vinegar eels is suitable food for medium Oscars.
Unless you have a pond large enough to raise crayfish, forget home rearing enough food for Oscars.
Dragon_Lord_Tia
02-15-2003, 10:41 PM
i have crayfish but they take along time to get to a good feed im thinking of a snack food for my cod and some exersise for my oscars would they eat crushed fish flakes i have by shrinp in a 1 gallon bowl so what would the yeast thing be then
!!!!!!!!ANYONE KNOW A SLEEPING COD WEBSITE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!
what would i do in the colder mounths with my crayfish