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Does anyone else find that if they're using marine salt and it sits for a while and gets old that it doesn't seem to dissolve completely? I've been using the Instant Ocean marine salt and I went through a period where I wasn't hatching any brine shrimp for a few months and now I've got little bits of undesolved salt in my brine shrimp. I don't feel like that was an issue before...
I've been thinking of getting a 10 gallon tank and do community freshwater fish with a betta. Can any kind of fish eat brine shrimp or is it only certain kinds of fish that eat them?
lets produce a product that consumes HUGE amounts of energy to make whilst reduces the effectiveness of a material being that the result is also a huge carbon foot print and cost to the plant and sell it to people all over the world....lol Humans are utterly ridiculous!
Exactly what I needed to hear. Been out of the hobby for awhile because of burnout. I've been considering getting back in, but I want to prevent the burnout that happened last time. Think I'm just going to do 2 tanks, a guppy tank and a community tank so that I can have a variety of fish. Nothing too exotic that takes a lot of time. I just want to enjoy it.
always love your vids, dean. so informative and it's just like a sitdown with a buddy/mentor. :) and i'm glad to hear you advocate for rams... a lot of people are like BOOOOOO boooo BOOOOOOO hisss. saying they just die and stuff.
I haven't witnessed it, but supposedly the wind makes waves and the floating eggs wash up onto the salt deposits on the sides of the lakes. I'm not exactly sure how they harvest the eggs from the salt at that point and get them to be debris free.
I am so grateful and thankful to you for this video! I have 2 beta tanks. One is a 3 gallon tank the other is a 5 gallon tank. I have been siphoning most of the water from my tanks for years but I could never figure out how to control How much like by just taking the food and waste with out so much water. I now have sand instead of gravel which makes it harder. To much sand is getting stuck in the tube and getting into my bucket. So now l understand now how to control the suction by pinching the tube. Thank you so much for this video!!
Cory. You've talked about how people ask you about measurements of salt often and how you cant really give that since everyone has a different type and density of salt so a cup of salt for one brand might be very different than a cup of salt of another brand. In Europe we measure salt not by volume but by weight. We would say 'add x grams/pounds of salt'. The volume of grainsize doesnt matter since you only talk about the actual weight of the actual salt. That way everyone adds the same exact amount of salt, no matter what brand they have. To get rid of all the questions you get, it might be an idea to put the weight of the salt on your blog or in the videos. You measure how much one cup of your salt weighs and will be done with the questions from there on out. 😊
I like to use hot water and I’m able to get them to hatch in 24hrs or less. I don’t use all at one and get mine to live for 3 days most times. I love these. Great product and the fish love it!
My hub is an experienced fish keeper. He has a 100 gallon saltwater tank downstairs. I asked him to help me put together a 10 gallon freshwater tank for our living room for my birthday. I am very excited to choose some nano fish! Now I have to be patient until the tank is ready for fish. Thank you for your great videos!
Oh man did I stumble along n listening to those pet store folks saying oh u can put these together, oh they're fine in a 20g. No. I've lost fish, I've stumbled along trying to understand the chemistry of a healthy fish tank (n I failed in hs chem..3x! 😅), "foot print", lost quite a few fish in the first 2 months of caretaking despite the 2mths prior of getting a tank ready realizing it was not ready! But trying to right the wrongs, find what setup w help support my fish now that I've got 2 tanks of different sizes (still planning for a 3rd much larger tank). Still learning and I soo appreciate ur channel, ur store, n great staff that I can bombard w questions! 😅 I'm lucky I was planning ahead of time, bought my first couple things 7mths ago stockpiling til I could get it up n running! Let me say, I think I watch my tanks more than I do my tv (no theres no zombie heads in them)! N can't wait for them to be in their permanent new homes, healthy, growing, n w as lil a foot print that I can (n less water too)!
Great addition to Cory's tutorial. I appreciate hearing Dean's take re: 18/24/36 hour hatches. As we have chloramines in St. Louis tap, perhaps 36 hour hatches can increase harvests despite my use of a de-chlorinator? Also will try Dean's suggestion to store baby brine shrimp in aerated salt water. Refrigerating them hasn't yet worked for me, either. Thanks gentlemen.
I've found the eggs I can get here is Aus only ever give me about 80% hatch rate and it was very fiddly to seperate the eggs. I now decapsulate them prior to hatching and I find it so much easier. Would be great if I could get some Co-op eggs!
Im successfully running my 125gal on 3 hob filters and 2 sponge filters. Way more than i need i know. But i used a canister forever till it croaked. I HATED every minute of it. 😅😅😅 especially priming it.
Great video love seeing you two together. I just bought a hatchery but I do have chlorine and chloramine in the water here so how do I go about hatching and feeding?
plz plz plz tell how long to use Phosphate-Ozor. I have it placed in front on my filter Tidal 55. Bc, my phosphates are high n caused green cloudy water. 😢😢😢 plz plz advise.
Appreciate the helpful info from both of you. I haven’t been having a lot of luck hatching bb but this definitely gives me a different way of looking and doing it.
Great video. One thing not mentioned is that you can feed BBS to many, many adult fish as well. Tetras and Rasboras and Barbs love them and get all the benefits, too!
Love the video! I can leave it on and walk around doing housework things and it keeps me company with pleasant-chatter while I do that, interspersed with times of sitting down and finding out who is who in your fish world and resting. I'll have it on a lot! Thank you 🙂
💫💢Such an important message💢💫 and good for you for bringing it to everyones attention..its so easy to slip into more more more mentality, when the outcome is youve thrned a once beloved activity intoma chore.. As for your mowin issue, try some space dedicated to being a wild meadow.. great for the environment and native species😊
13:58 i recently saw a shrimpy grab a large flake of food like he was repelling backwards off a cliff with a parachute. :D it was so great. (my neighbor gave me a male and a female of the clear red ones and now i have a colony. BUT they were breeding so much i thought nano fish might be a good idea, to keep the numbers down juuuuuust a little. well, might now be regretting that. the guppies are going NUTS. once quarantine is done, i'm moving them.) i really want to keep some blue ones.
