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I just made a Brine Shrimp Hatchery

I'm going to feed the baby brine shrimp to my baby Guppy's

I've managed to wedge it into my tank with some other containers I had so that it get's light all night and is nice and warm (which makes them hatch quicker).

I've put a plank of wood over one side of the light so the fish can have a rest from the light though
It's really easy, take a look at this video

Cool!
I would try it if I could get my hands on some brine shrimp eggs....

Daria101 wrote:Cool!
I would try it if I could get my hands on some brine shrimp eggs....

you can get them off ebay

Mine came with the marine salt you've got to add to the water

You can get em at almost all petsmarts, sometimes petco, and quite a few LFS's have em...

I mean...they'd be cool if my b/f hatched them and I observed...there's no way I could do that. =)

Daria101 wrote:I mean...they'd be cool if my b/f hatched them and I observed...there's no way I could do that. =)

I thought that but it was pretty easy

I did manged to cut my thumb though even after the guy warned to be carful on the Youtube vid

Looks like fun.But wouldn't the water splash out of the soda bottle?

Sponge bob wrote:Looks like fun.But wouldn't the water splash out of the soda bottle?

No it's fine, mines been running 22hrs now so hopfully in 2 hrs they should hatch

I've had to top it up with water though as it's evapourated quite a lot

Oh.okay.

I made my BBS hatchery last night. I have it set hanging in my 55 gallon. i just used extra parts from my maxi-jet (hang on tank parts)and attached them to an upside down bottle. I used this post to help me with hatchery so thank you and i hope my setup works out . I'll get some pics if they live.

TheBlueMeanies wrote:I made my BBS hatchery last night. I have it set hanging in my 55 gallon. i just used extra parts from my maxi-jet (hang on tank parts)and attached them to an upside down bottle. I used this post to help me with hatchery so thank you and i hope my setup works out . I'll get some pics if they live.

NP

Hope it works, cannot see why it won't

And yeah show us some pix

here is a video testing my DIY moonlights on the side not the top and showing you my BBS hatchery (about 10-15% hatched so far)

TheBlueMeanies wrote:here is a video testing my DIY moonlights on the side not the top and showing you my BBS hatchery (about 10-15% hatched so far)

Nice

I cut my bottle to low down and so the water was very close to spilling over, I see you didn't make the same mistake

What's gona go in that tank by the way?

NiceI cut my bottle to low down and so the water was very close to spilling over, I see you didn't make the same mistake
What's gona go in that tank by the way?

It is going to be my first 50 gallon FOWLR saltwater tank. I' m just saving money to buy the live rock, sand, and salt. After i get my new lights and i would have spent about $800 setting up this tank. right now the only fish we know that we are going to try and get are a mated pair of clown fish, Canthigaster coronata, or valintini, or jactator (i don't know yet) , a longnose hawk fish, a flame angel, and maybe a Copper banded Butterfly fish. we are still looking so if anyone has a suggestion for a cool fish please let me know.

its has now been about 32 hours since i started my baby brine shrimp hatchery and alot have hatched. I also found out my camera can do MACRO video so ill get a close up video of them on here. I cant wait to see if my fishies love them.

here is a better pic and video




in a freshwater bath before i fed them to my tiger barbs(as you can see there are not very many empty or unhatched eggs)

I just put mine in a half-gallon aquarium with a tiny airstone, and they hatched just fine. The fish aren't interested, though. That was rather frustrating.

By the by, Daria101, Drs. Foster and Smith have really cheap hatch mix, if you're having trouble finding the eggs.