brine shrimp

Hello everyone, how is it going? Well, currently I have a small culture of Artemia franciscana and there're many, many "shrimps" (indeed they are not real shrimp), several adults. Soon I'll have some freshwater fish but, since artemias are also used for marine organisms, I would like to ask...

I’m brand new to saltwater aquariums and my brother gave me a live rock with a bunch of very very tiny red anemones on it. All of them are maybe about 1cm or a half inch in diameter. I already have a tank of just sea monkies (it’s 5gallons with a FluvalSmart nano UV light, an air stone with a...

The Blue Spotted Tamarin Wrasse is not commonly seen within the marine aquarium hobby. This beautiful species will grow to be about 14 inches in length, so they will need substantial swimming space. Use caution if adding to a reef aquarium because the Blue Spotted Tamarin Wrasse is known to nip...

Can brine shrimp eggs survive shipping in low temperatures? (As low as 8 F) I’d like to start a hatchery but no stores near me have eggs in stock.

I have recently become the proud mom of a 300 gallon brine shrimp culture, unfortunately the person who was previously in charge of handling our cultures is no longer working at our facility so I’m just kinda winging it ATM as far as trying to keep the culture healthy. There are thousands of...

Hi All, Made the classic mistake of buying an unresearched species at the LFS this weekend. All of my gracillaria macroalgae disappeared without a trace over the course of 2 weeks and at the same time I had an amphipod explosion so my theory is that they ate it all. I have a 20 gallon AIO and...

Hey y’all starting a build(can document if interest) I am building an auto feeder for my seahorses. I am planning on using a mini fridge along with magnetic stirrer and dosing pumps/peristaltic pumps. Any recommendations for pumps? I was planning on going with jebao pumps, I know this isn’t a...

Hey guys. Been harvesting baby brine for a while and all is very successful. I do about a gram a week in a one liter bottle with great success. My struggle is that I set up a 10 gallon breeder with just an air line and heater to try and raise them to adults. I use freshly mixed salt water that I...

Hey guys. Been harvesting baby brine for a while and all is very successful. I do about a gram a week in a one liter bottle with great success. My struggle is that I set up a 10 gallon breeder with just an air line and heater to try and raise them to adults. I use freshly mixed salt water that I...

Hello fellow saltines, I've been hatching baby brine shrimp for my fish for awhile which has been going well. The fish also eat frozen food so the bbs isn't their only food but I add it twice a day to the tank so they have setting to hunt (or so I thought). I just recently watched my tank after...

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Hello! I've recently gotten into the realm of culturing live foods. Starting with brine shrimp as my fish and coral seem to enjoy them, and because theyre cheap and nutritious. I've been feeding Zoo Med's spirilina 20, and have read you can use a variety of foods (that I havent tried). but saw...

Hello fellow Saltines, More often than not I hatch out more brine shrimp than what I need (it's only a 5g) so a lot of them grow out beyond their nutritious nauplii stage. After a day I feed them with phyto and continue to add them to my tank. Can a bit of Selcon be added to the phtyo to feed...

This might sound stupid, but would it be possible to raise and breed brine shrimp in my refugium? The water parameters required by brine shrimp seem to line up with those in my marine system, I dose phytoplankton (Kent Marine PhytoPlex) four times a week, and my refugium is well sheltered with...

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The idea is to set up a single refugium that works for both brine shrimp and copepods. I’d assume they can’t be in the same partition because the brine shrimp would eat the copepods. So the question is, is there a single refugium tank that has the necessary partition (and capacity for any other...

Some people still question coral nutrition with extra food and advice just fish poop, while others recognize the important role of coral feeding. This topic is not meant to discuss that subject. Many articles have discussed that matter and many even tried different feeding methods. Scientific...

According to brineshrimpdirect SF strains of brine shrimp, they are smaller? Like the size of rotifers, could I use them as a first food because I have no luck with rotifers :3

I've started hatching brine shrimp and thinking of ways I could make a sustainable tank for them but have it be under my tank in the stand above the sump. Then I thought, what if I had it become part of the system. My sump came with an ATO tank that sits on top of the sump but I use an external...

Hey guys, I’m mooking into getting a ruby red dragonet from my lfs. I have a refugium all set up and running with tons of pods. I would eventually like to get him onto mysis, but was also wondering if brine would work? I’ve read that they can eat them, but how does the nutrition of the two foods...

I am sure this has come up on the forums but wanted to see if any research has been done on this within the hobbyist. I have been rearing clownfish since the late 80's and got out of it in the late 90's and recently started again, back in the day I had many types of containers for rots, from 2...

Started cultivating 3 different types of live food for my fish in the garage. 1. Hatching and raising live brine shrimp. Will gut load them with spirulina powder. Took the hatched shrimp and placed in 2 separate buckets with aeration. From videos by David Ramsey on YT. 2. Tigger Pods - using...

For about 2 1/2 years I have been developing an automated Dwarf seahorse aquarium. I had quite a few failures but this version seems to work well. Everyone, please look it over and give me your comments. A presentation is available on the following link...

Long story short, I dumped some brine shrimp eggs into the refugium a couple of weeks ago. Not really a hitchhiker if I added the eggs, I guess, but I was counting on the fish wiping out the eggs and babies before they could grow... Anyway, earlier this week I gave two corals a lugols dip. A...

essentially I’ve been looking into Paul B’s mandarin feeder which I’m pretty sure I can make however I now need to find a way to breed brine shrimp as in Australia it’s not a stable supply to buy eggs so I was thinking of doing this. 1. Hatch some eggs 2. Let the shrimp grow to adulthood 3...