BRINE SHRIMP?????

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D.J.

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just wondering if i hatch off a few hundred brine shrimp if they would survive in my new tank with nothing to eat them in there?

just trying to get it stocked up in food sources before i add fish or anything.....

thanks
dj
 
I don't know about the brine shimp but you can add copepods if you want to. Great food source.
 
i will third that..
you could start up a 10 gal tank n hatch off a bunch of brine shrimp, but i don't think they would live in the tank itself.
 
No. they would definitely need something to eat once their yolk sac is depleted. And if there is nothing for them to eat then they wont be very nutritious by the time your fish eat them. They will also likely get chopped up or die from other causes.
You aren't going to want to hatch them in the tank either, as their cyst is pretty much indigestible and if there are too many in a coral's polyps or a fish's digestive system, it could really injure them or even kill the fish.
 
Yeah, not easy to do at all, as fishiness said. Interestingly enough, there is a freshwater relative, called fairy shrimp, that some people keep.
 
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