brine shrimp

[Dahlia]

About how long do brine shrimp live once you transfer them from their brine to a freshwater tank? Minutes? Hours? Days?

Also, could I raise them in one of those small Eclipse setups? Will salt corrode those things? How long do brine shrimp take to reach adulthood? If anyone has advice/experience on how they've raised brine shrimp let me know. I'm sure my daughter would enjoy watching them so I would like to do this in a small tank or something easy for her to view. I'd rather not have milk cartons, pickle jars, airstones, and pumps to deal with if I don't have to.

 

[Cearbhaill]

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[yashinfan]

Well I use the Sanfransico Bay Brine Shrimperie, and the brine shrimp swim up into a canister filled with freshwater. They live in there for at least a couple of hours, since I wait for about 6 hour intervals in between harvests. When I put them in the tank they are gobbled up immediately so I've never seen any swimming around!

 

[delmore]

Has anyone used a Hatch 'n Feeder" Automatic Shrimp Feeder?

It goes inside of the tank, and the bbs swim into the aquarium as they hatch. They claim that salt stays in the hatchery.

I only need a very small amount of bbs and need something very easy. This sounds too easy...


http://www.oscarent.com/productspages/hatchnfeeder.html

 

[yashinfan]

Wow that product looks amazing! Everything makes sense, but the fact that the patent is pending, worries me a bit. It should be licenced before you buy it, in case anything goes wrong.

 

[Matt W]

Patent pending just means they have submitted their patent application to the patent office. It is nothing to worry about. Any new invention that has not yet received its official patent is patent pending. Getting the actual patent can just take a little while from application to registration....

 

[HungryGoldfish]

The salt water must go into the fish tank. There is no barrier. If the brine shrimp can swim from the saltwater to the freshwater, there is no barrier.

Salt water isn't like a sugar solution where there is a relatively stable interface between a layer of sugarwater and freshwater---saltwater mixes easily with fresh water. I think the setup is designed to slow the rate the salt travels into the tank, but I can imagine that it would be slowed enough. Remember, it takes at least 18 hours for the hatching.

You must take my opinion with a "grain of salt" Ha ha ha!!! Because I don't own this and therefore haven't testing the freshwater in the tank for salinity. I'm not a betting person, but I'd put a few bucks on significant salt migration.