Overfeeding of Hatched Brine Shrimp

[rsw686]

I figured I would hatch some brine shrimp eggs for my mandarin. He has copepods to eat as well. Anyway the eggs hatched just fine. I siphoned them out of the container leaving the egg shells and strained them with a coffee filter. Using an eyedropper I put them in the tank near the mandarin. Well it looks like its snowing in the tank. I only put in a half an eyedropper.

All that work and the mandarin doesn't seem to be eating them. The clownish are going crazy. What will happen to the baby brine shrimp. Will they just die and be eaten by hermits or are they going to float around the tank until they are all eaten?

If anybody else wants to hatch brine shrimp eggs you only need a small small amount. I put in 3 grams or so, bought 6 grams worth and the 2 liter soda bottle was full of them.

 

[Germanman]

if you have corals and filter feeders they will enjoy the brine and the rest will get sucked up and even if they die they shouldn't cause to much of a problem and if u have a skimmer it will get skimmed out. brine is usually useless unless vitamin enriched and gut loaded though.

 

[rsw686]

I don't have a skimmer hooked up, maybe I should hook it back up. I got a good deal on an AquaC Remora Pro, but it puts micro bubbles all through the tank. Plus the mag drive makes more noise than I care for (its a new pump too) and it doesn't work well with a maxijet 1200.

I've been debating on buying a CPR Bakpack skimmer instead but not sure if it will work any better. Or just the Remora skimmer.

Without the skimmer they should go away over time anyway right?

How do you vitamin enrich them? I know the brine are the most nutritious when they are first hatched. Hatching the brine was more to see if it would work and if the mandarin would eat them. Which is was quite easy to do. I'll see if the mandarin eats them when the lights go out. He seems more active at night.

 

[Germanman]

to enrich the brine u can use selcon and zoa marine...and gut load em with cyclopeeze. as for the backpacs i love mine i would never use any other.

 

[jojo22]

to enrich the brine u can use selcon and zoa marine...and gut load em with cyclopeeze. as for the backpacs i love mine i would never use any other.

Not even a Deltec or Euro-reef???

 

[Germanman]

Not even a Deltec or Euro-reef???

for a larger aquarium maybe...lol joe stop following me....lol

 

[jojo22]

Ok that's cool I knew there where better skimmers out there, just wanted your thoughts.

 

[rsw686]

Yeah I really want a sump and in sump skimmer. I either need to put a hole in the wall and put the sump on the other side, with 10gal fuge and 10gal frag tank, or I'm going build a metal stand, face it with wood, which would give me a good amount of room underneath.

This is the current setup. A maxijet 600 pushes water from the fuge into the main tank and it is siphoned back through the other pipe.

 

[jojo22]

I would just put a sump under the larger tank you will be needing for that tang!!

 

[rsw686]

I would just put a sump under the larger tank you will be needing for that tang!!

Heh I know! The tang was starved at Petco so I bought him. Hes really filled out again and is healthy looking. The plan is to get a larger tank. Stace really wants seahorses and they would work well in the 56 gal tank above since its tall. Maybe two tanks connected to one sump.