Easiest way to hatch your own Brine Shrimp!

[BroRage]

One thing I am still not understanding about this...why in the bottle technique does it say to airate the thing and in the disk method no air is needed to be pumped through it...

 

[Deanos]

One thing I am still not understanding about this...why in the bottle technique does it say to airate the thing and in the disk method no air is needed to be pumped through it...

:shhh: Ancient Chinese secret

 

[scumonkey]

Don’t these hatchlings have almost no nutritional value? Isn’t it easier just to buy a bar of Cyclopeeze for $11? These buggers are frozen, but packed w/ nutrition and lasts at least six months (easy). Maybe I’m missing something….I know Melev reef talks about feeding the little buggers to get them nutritionally sound. It just sounds like wasted money & time to me. If I’m wrong let me know

Your Wrong!.....
The reason you hatch them rather than buy them is....
newly hatched brine shrimp (within the first 6 hours- BEFORE they absorb their yolk sac), are VERY nutritious.
After they eat their supply they become a snack.
The stores sell adults...also just a snack. Unless you gut feed them, but why bother when you can now easily hatch them, and feed them right away?!
Hatching them used to be a pain...separating shells etc.

 

[Milkbone]

Interesting

I didn?t mean buying live BS, but the frozen Cyclopeeze. Stocked w/ good stuff & cheap. I didn?t know about the first six-hour thing. Sounds good, I would prefer to feed live/natural foods any day of the week. Will give it a try

 

[BroRage]

darn asians and their secret ways....

 

[Awibrandy]

OK, bunch of people want this product, who is setting up the GB?

 

[KathyC]

I just talked to Tim at Brine shrimp direct.....He told me the Hatchery dishes
were inbound from Europe at the moment and, they should be restocked in
about two weeks:wink1:

Patience folks! They don't seem to have any to sell right now

 

[vanceny]

scumonkey and to those who already have this dish,

The water level looks lower than the gate ring, how do the shrimp get to the center? Is the water level higher than the catch? How do they get in there? looks like it would be a simple diy with some pvc. Just looking for some more ideas.

Thanks.

Vance

 

[reefman]

scumonkey and to those who already have this dish,

The water level looks lower than the gate ring, how do the shrimp get to the center? Vance

very observant. i was gonna ask this too.

if this is sold in hong kong, any info where. maybe we can get some1 to get it there for us.

 

[noodleman]

the shrimps swim under the gate ring, kind of like baffles

 

[reefman]

if the shrimps swim under the gate ring, wouldn't the egg shells also get under there?

 

[digitalreefer]

if the shrimps swim under the gate ring, wouldn't the egg shells also get under there?

Egg shells don't usually swim :thrash:

 

[thirty5]

Egg shells don't usually swim :thrash:

Ya, they do the egg man float!

 

[scumonkey]

he shrimps swim under the gate ring, kind of like baffles

Exactly!

The egg shells float...to get from the outside to the center, they would have to
sink under the 2 gate rings,and float over 2 of the bottom dish's concentric rings....
under, over, under over. Unless you shake the dish it's not gonna happen.

 

[crox99]

I used the same exact hatchery appoximately 15 years ago. it works great.

 

[scumonkey]

I used the same exact hatchery appoximately 15 years ago. it works great.

Proof that it's an .....

Ancient Chinese secret

 

[reefman]

i c :smoker:

 

[vanceny]

Exactly!

The egg shells float...to get from the outside to the center, they would have to
sink under the 2 gate rings,and float over 2 of the bottom dish's concentric rings....
under, over, under over. Unless you shake the dish it's not gonna happen.

So the gate ring doesn't sit on the bottom of the dish? Is it slightly lifted on legs?

 

[thirty5]

well i think that it sits on the rings that you see in the picture of the dish

 

[Dmitry]

Egg shells are supposed to float, so they will float up while the shrimp will swim towards the light on the bottom.

I want one of these also.

If you start feeding live regularly - will the fish get spoiled and stop accepting frozen? What are the chances of this happening?