makeme1098
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Where can I get some live brine shrimp around here?
Live Brine Shrimp
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rayjay
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rayjay
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Growing your own is fine if you don't need much, especially if it's only for pleasure to watch your fish eat live once in a while. However, for any meaning full density of brine culture, it can be work. The more dense the culture, the more work in cleaning and water changes.
If I lived in the US and had access to livebrineshrimp.com, I'd never grow them.
However, I've been growing them for a lot of years now and some of my stages are put down on my brine page.
GROWING BRINE SHRIMP TO ADULT
If I lived in the US and had access to livebrineshrimp.com, I'd never grow them.
However, I've been growing them for a lot of years now and some of my stages are put down on my brine page.
GROWING BRINE SHRIMP TO ADULT
When I used to breed Cichlids, I hatched out brine shrimp all the time, to feed the fry. It is a lil' bit of work, but not too bad.
Keep in mind that brine shrimp, unless gut loaded, with something like selcon, lose almost all of their nutritional value, shortly after hatching. As babies, they're tiny, so will be ignored by all but the smallest fish.
Keep in mind that brine shrimp, unless gut loaded, with something like selcon, lose almost all of their nutritional value, shortly after hatching. As babies, they're tiny, so will be ignored by all but the smallest fish.
rayjay
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It wasn't stated, but I felt it was implied that the poster was looking for adult, or at least juvenile live brine which are definitely more work than just hatching out and feeding within a short period of time.
As far as nutrition of brine shrimp goes, their lack of nutrient has been falsely perpetuated over time so that most people believe it. In fact, the dry weight percentage of brine shrimp protein is higher than most other foods we feed our fish, rated at 50 to 60%.
Naysayers point to the very low protein content listed on frozen brine packages, but in fact, those percentages include the brine moisture, AND, all the packaging fluids added to be able to efficiently package this product.
If you take freeze dried or flake foods or pellets, and soak them, then the approximate 45% protein content shown on their packaging, now becomes very minute, like the frozen brine.
However, the nutrient profile of brine shrimp just changes, from the high fatty acid profile and lower protein content, to the higher protein content and much lower fatty acid levels.
The strength of live brine as a food comes from the fact you can gut load them with a variety of products, like the selco emulsions, (I prefer powdered AlgaMac 3050 which stores a long time), vitamines, more protein, or even medications if they are first emulsified. Thus you can create your own nutrient levels in your food with this methodology.
Newborn cannot gut load as they have no mouth or anus but after about a day, the second instar stage can be. It takes two gut loaded stages, each of 12 hours, with new water and food after the first 12 hours is completed.
Gut loading becomes faster to the point that as late term juveniles and adults, they can be gut loaded in just an hour to an hour and a half.
For TRUE information on brine before gut loading see here: Nutritional Properties of Ongrown Artemia
which comes from the United Nations site:
Manual on the Production and Use of Live Food for Aquaculture
Much of the information in this Manual comes from the Artemia Reference Centre at the University of Ghent.
As far as nutrition of brine shrimp goes, their lack of nutrient has been falsely perpetuated over time so that most people believe it. In fact, the dry weight percentage of brine shrimp protein is higher than most other foods we feed our fish, rated at 50 to 60%.
Naysayers point to the very low protein content listed on frozen brine packages, but in fact, those percentages include the brine moisture, AND, all the packaging fluids added to be able to efficiently package this product.
If you take freeze dried or flake foods or pellets, and soak them, then the approximate 45% protein content shown on their packaging, now becomes very minute, like the frozen brine.
However, the nutrient profile of brine shrimp just changes, from the high fatty acid profile and lower protein content, to the higher protein content and much lower fatty acid levels.
The strength of live brine as a food comes from the fact you can gut load them with a variety of products, like the selco emulsions, (I prefer powdered AlgaMac 3050 which stores a long time), vitamines, more protein, or even medications if they are first emulsified. Thus you can create your own nutrient levels in your food with this methodology.
Newborn cannot gut load as they have no mouth or anus but after about a day, the second instar stage can be. It takes two gut loaded stages, each of 12 hours, with new water and food after the first 12 hours is completed.
Gut loading becomes faster to the point that as late term juveniles and adults, they can be gut loaded in just an hour to an hour and a half.
For TRUE information on brine before gut loading see here: Nutritional Properties of Ongrown Artemia
which comes from the United Nations site:
Manual on the Production and Use of Live Food for Aquaculture
Much of the information in this Manual comes from the Artemia Reference Centre at the University of Ghent.
makeme1098
Reader
thanks guys, I just ordered Tom Aquatics Hatch N Feeder. It's in-tank application. I hope it will work out.
mimosa
DeepDive
Any luck with growing Artemia to full size?
Down at midway fish and pets have them for 4 bucks per teaspoon and sierra fish and pets in renton I know have them for sure
