I've already posted one thread on brine shrimp and got a lot of helpful feedback, thanks to everybody who helped. I decided to to try hatching brine shrimp and already bought the eggs... I got a lot of instructions from various websites, but one thing that I wasn't able to find was how much salt to use. Does anybody know how much salt to use for lets say 1 gallon of water??? Thanks in advance.
Raising Brine Shrimp II
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Roland
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I use -
28ppt (parts per thousand) of salt
28 degrees c heat
good airation/water movement(important)
They should hatch 24 hours later. Once they have hatched their nutritional value plumits within about 6 hours. to counter this, or to create a substantialy superior food for your fry, you can feed your artemia.
I syphon out the newly hatched bs (with an airline) into a pint glass. (bs are photosensitive and so are attracted to light. You can use a torch to 'lure' them to where it is easy to syphon them)
As a general rule, the eggs float, so it is a good idea to syphon the shrimp from the bottom of the hatchery, thus avoiding the potential for your fry to consume problem causing eggs/shells.
Once in the pint glass you can 'bioencapsulate' the artemia. This is the fancy word for feeding! Liquifry or any vitamin formula is fine, but be sure to only give the artemia 20-60 minutes to feed. (after this they will start to metabolise the formula).
Goodness, once i start talking i dont shut up do i? hope this helps, if you need more info let me know
28ppt (parts per thousand) of salt
28 degrees c heat
good airation/water movement(important)
They should hatch 24 hours later. Once they have hatched their nutritional value plumits within about 6 hours. to counter this, or to create a substantialy superior food for your fry, you can feed your artemia.
I syphon out the newly hatched bs (with an airline) into a pint glass. (bs are photosensitive and so are attracted to light. You can use a torch to 'lure' them to where it is easy to syphon them)
As a general rule, the eggs float, so it is a good idea to syphon the shrimp from the bottom of the hatchery, thus avoiding the potential for your fry to consume problem causing eggs/shells.
Once in the pint glass you can 'bioencapsulate' the artemia. This is the fancy word for feeding! Liquifry or any vitamin formula is fine, but be sure to only give the artemia 20-60 minutes to feed. (after this they will start to metabolise the formula).
Goodness, once i start talking i dont shut up do i? hope this helps, if you need more info let me know
Check this out, It's been a while since I've Hatched shrimp but the 1 tablespoon per liter sounds about right. Hope it helps.
http://home.earthlink.net/~photofish/BrineShrmp.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~photofish/BrineShrmp.html
Thanks for the help. I just put the eggs in the solution, and I'll see how they'll do tomorrow...
Ok, the eggs hatched earlier today, but the shrimp are still about the size of the eggs (can hardly be seen), will they grow larger and do I have to feed them? I can feed them to my platy fry like that, but I also want to give them to the other fish, so I want them to at least double in size... If I manage to raise them even larger than that in one 1.5 liter jar that would be wonderful 
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The Shrimp Are red in color. Turn off the airation and the eggs will float to the top. Siphon the shrimp out into another container, I.E. Tupperware. A piece of air tubing works well. Feed what you want toyour fish/Fry/whatever.
The balance in the tupperware can be stored in the fridg and used over the next couple of days.
You don't need to feed the shrimp, (although I am told,but haven't tried it myself,) that you can add a couple of drops of liquid fry food to the shrimp.
Everything I have read states that trying to grow or keep brine shrimp for more than a few days is a bigger problem than it is worth. Again not from personel experiance.
The fresh born shrimp is the highest concentrate of nutriants your fish need anyway.
Good luck hope this helps.
The balance in the tupperware can be stored in the fridg and used over the next couple of days.
You don't need to feed the shrimp, (although I am told,but haven't tried it myself,) that you can add a couple of drops of liquid fry food to the shrimp.
Everything I have read states that trying to grow or keep brine shrimp for more than a few days is a bigger problem than it is worth. Again not from personel experiance.
The fresh born shrimp is the highest concentrate of nutriants your fish need anyway.
Good luck hope this helps.
I know it doesn't seem like they're big enough for larger fish to bother with, but trust me, they will gobble them up. No need to grow them up (just too much of a pita). They will poison themselves in the hatch water (even bbs produce ammonia) within a couple of days. Keeping them in the fridge will help maintain thier nutritional value for a little longer and slow down ammonia production. I generally give them about 36 hrs to hatch, feed those bbs for two feedings, use microworms during the gap between my bbs getting old and the next hatch is ready.
Today is the third day since they hatched and I think they are beginning to die off, so I'll feed them out today. I don't really care about hte nutritional value, because I feed lots of other foods that the fish get nutrition from. My fry are platy fry, so it is not specifically for them either, as they already eat lots of different foods themsleves. I'm raising brine shrimp mostly so the fish can get something live, so they can chase it, and also to provide some variety from staple and frozen diet. Thanks.