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 adding them and I realized the bbs immediately swim to the surface toward the light. In hindsight this makes sense given this is what makes them easy to collect from the culturing containers but I find myself standing there for half an hour just to keep swirling them into the water column with my brine shrimp net for my lower dwelling fish to get. I read that once it goes dark they sink to the substrate so my night feeding tends to be closer to when lights are out but during the day I can't avoid the light.
My question... Is there a way to keep them in the water column? I know people use these guys to feed seahorses and other picky fish so how does that work if the bbs float on the surface? I'm assuming they were being sucked into my filter before I started swirling them into the water column but I'm sure I'm still losing a lot of them to the filter.
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 adding them and I realized the bbs immediately swim to the surface toward the light. In hindsight this makes sense given this is what makes them easy to collect from the culturing containers but I find myself standing there for half an hour just to keep swirling them into the water column with my brine shrimp net for my lower dwelling fish to get. I read that once it goes dark they sink to the substrate so my night feeding tends to be closer to when lights are out but during the day I can't avoid the light.
My question... Is there a way to keep them in the water column? I know people use these guys to feed seahorses and other picky fish so how does that work if the bbs float on the surface? I'm assuming they were being sucked into my filter before I started swirling them into the water column but I'm sure I'm still losing a lot of them to the filter.