Overfeeding of Hatched Brine Shrimp

Thanks Niko!!
 
Haha- I thought you were making joke that I found funny! I definitely don't know much about seahorses, just thought it was funny.

Nice link, thanks. Good read.

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mine got a fine layer once on them but my tail spot blenny would actually clean them they would even hold still for it...it was funny to watch. and they ate all i gave them because there were other fish with them the fish caught what the seahorses didnt...also when they were alone in the fuge i would just drop the mysis in little by little as they ate feeding usually took 15 mins to half an hour. they ate all frozen preparations and doubled in size as well as always looking as if they were ready to pop. all it takes is dedication...i see them just as important as one would a dog or even a child when it came to my seahorses....if u lack that passion then...well there u get the stores of seahorses dieing after a month. it took freak accidents to kill mine...otherwise they would still be here.
 
Mixing reef fish with ponies is also generally not a good idea, the fish grab food much faster than the ponies can snick it up so they do not get as much as they should.
 
5xevy said:
This past week I've been reading about hatching brine. Just wondering how you did yours- you only used one bottle? Did you order the eggs online? Did they hatch within 24 hours?
I'll take any information you're willing to give...:D:laugh:
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First of all, I'm a cheapskate so I use inverted 2 litre pop bottles with the bottoms cut out and sitting in bottoms cut off other bottles. I use a piece of rigid air line tubing inserted from the top so that I don't have to be bothered with putting a hole in the cap and adding the air that way.
I add salt water and let the cysts hydrate for an hour or two or four, and then start the air. I leave them for two days to complete the hatch but if you are going to be feeding them to your tanks as nauplii, then feed them to the tanks as soon as they hatch, and dump the water and unhatched cysts back in the container for further hatching to occur. I grow mine to adult so I don't worry about the timeline.
I buy my cysts from BRINE SHRIMP DIRECT as they have the best quality going, and, they keep the product refrigerated, unlike most LFS's do. The quality of the cyst deteriorates rapidly when stored on a shelf at room temperature.
There are helpful articles on BSD as well.
If you are into growing them out to adult, MY BRINE SHRIMP PAGE can give you some insight on how to succeed as it describes how I used to grow them until I went large scale.
For the most complete information anywhere on brine shrimp, see the Artemia article in the United Nations Live Foods for Aquaculture. It comes from the Artemia Reference Center at the University of Ghent.
CLICK HERE AND SCROLL DOWN TO SECTION 4.0
 
5xevy said:
This past week I've been reading about hatching brine. Just wondering how you did yours- you only used one bottle? Did you order the eggs online? Did they hatch within 24 hours?

I'll take any information you're willing to give...:D



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Just saw your post. I got 6oz brine shrimp eggs at petsmart. It came in a package in the fish food area. I also got aquarium salt. I followed the directions on the back and used a 2 liter bottle with an airline going in the top all the way to the bottom. I had the air flowing just enough to keep all the brine shrimp eggs suspended in the water not sitting on the bottom. I placed the 2 liter bottled standing up in a 10 gal tank half full of water heated to 81 degrees.

About 22 hours later I turned off the air and waited 5 min or so. All the egg shells rose to the top and the brine shrimp (orange pink color) were swimming in the bottom. I took a piece of tubing I had laying around, stuck it down to the bottom and siphoned out the brine shrimp into a small container. Be careful not to get a mouthful of brine shrimp. I probably should have inverted the bottle and just opened the cap to let them out.

Then all I did was pour that container of brine shrimp through a coffee filter into another container. The brine shrimp stay in the coffee filter. I filled the original now empty container with tank water and submerged the coffee filter in it to get the brine shrimp out. Using an eyedropper I placed the brine shrimp in the tank in front of the mandarin.
 
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