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How to grow live microalgae to feed your Sea-Monkeys / Brine Shrimp

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A tutorial guide for how to culture live algae to feed to your brine shrimp / sea-monkey culture.
Live micro-algae, aka green water, is the secret to sustaining a long-term healthy colony of brine shrimp. In this video I give instructions for how to grow and culture algae, and my method for feeding it to the artemia. I show the algae under a microscope and show a time lapse of the algae growth.
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@emiliov8483 2 года назад

This is the kind of small unknown channel that’s gonna eventually get hit by the algorithm and blow up . Keep up the good work.

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

Thanks Emilio! Really appreciate that mate :) hopefully the channel picks up a bit next year when I’m making videos more regularly 🤞

@NM-ue8on Год назад

Your right

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

Hey guys 👋 this will be my last video for a few weeks. I'm heading overseas for work and won't have any internet access during that time. Looking forward to creating more content for you all in October ✌

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

@h haha let me know what kind of videos you’d like to see on the channel later this year :)

@nodatastored684 2 года назад

Link for the heater

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

@@nodatastored684 www.amazon.com/DONGKER-Aquarium-Heater-Submersible-Thermostat/dp/B09SQ1GY4N

@gulliblesbabbles 2 года назад

Stay safe and have a great adventure, John. Enjoy! - Tod

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

@@gulliblesbabbles thanks Tod! Will email you shortly mate 👍

@Woodlouse29 Год назад

"World's only instant pets!" Fairy Shrimp and Triops: Am I a joke to you?

@d.j.105 2 года назад

More of cultivating live algea ! This topic is really important. Maybe more on how to keep maintaining your live culture like how often do we add more fertilizer or what do you do to maintain It ? Thanks!

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Yeah that's a good idea, I'll definitely make a part 2 for this video at some point 👌 - but basically I feed the algae to the brine shrimp and once it starts getting low I just add in more saltwater + fertiliser to start the process over again

@LeftyCalligrapher 3 месяца назад

Is there any difference between salt water algae and fresh? I added some algae from my Betta (freshwater) tank and my entire colony died

@SilkZPlays 2 года назад

I was researching shrimp and stumbled upon your videos. .and I have to say. .you sir are amazing. Not only do you give all the information you need but also give some helpful side tips you've learnt along your adventure which no one I've seen seems to think of. Your delivery is absolutely outstanding, the way you talk is not enjoyable but also very easy to follow. . .as a fellow NZ I recently got my first sea monkey pack (went for the mars one) and following your tips and info they are flourishing and my obsession of these forever curious little sausages is growing more and more. Enjoy your time away and I definitely be waiting for the next upload 😅

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

Hey Robert! Thanks for the comment mate, I really appreciate it 🙏 I’m glad to hear you’re finding the videos helpful too! I’ll be doing review videos for the Mars & Magic castle tanks in October so look out for those :)

@jimjones7821 Год назад

fish food - thats the real fun - watching your fish eat them !

@pandasbabydreams 2 года назад

Thank you so much for making this video! I follow you on IG as well and remember asking about a microalgae video. We all appreciate this so much! With your tips, I've done so much better with my sea monkeys. Now I will be able to harvest microalgae too. Keep up the amazing work! You're awesome!

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

Oh wow, this is my first Super Thanks! Thanks so much :) I'm glad you're finding value in the videos I make. Good luck on your algae culturing journey :) Feel free to reach out if you ever have any questions

@tastybloodworms7217 Год назад

"Brine shrimp"

@marobuggy Год назад

@@tastybloodworms7217 don’t be mean dude

@SonOfFurzehatt Год назад

The reason the fertiliser comes in two parts is to avoid precipitation. For example, phosphate will precipitate if it combines with calcium or magnesium.

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Thanks for this, I had no idea. Any idea why most F2 algae fertilisers come in a single bottle though?

@SonOfFurzehatt Год назад

@@pico-cosmos Having looked up the formula (I'm a horticulturist and know nothing about aquariums), the F2 mix doesn't seem to contain any calcium or magnesium - the things that would most likely precipitate phosphate. There are a few trace metals like iron and molybdenum, but they are chelated by a compound called EDTA, so presumably are prevented from binding strongly to phosphate.

@coxybrothers4349 Год назад

These tips are great. Watch your videos everyday as I got two tanks for christmas and it is my first time with sea monkeys.

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Thanks! I hope these videos have been helping with your new pets :)

@thombaz Год назад

That microalgie microscope part where something is eating the lgae is really amazing. You are good at microscope-video making, maybe you should do it more, really nice, thanks.

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Thanks Thom! I’m still quite new to microscopy so I really appreciate that

@dizzydragon 2 года назад

You can use a tiny bit potassium nitrate (saltpeter) and matchheads, then wait till You have the whole jar full of green to make sure that the nitrate was digested by the algae, it is basically the same nutrients that the algae fertilizers use. ironically if it wasnt for the water, that would be rocket fuel, fairly inexpensive saltpeter costs like 50 cents for a quarter of a kilogram

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

Ah this is super interesting! thanks for the tip 👌

@EddVCR Год назад

Your videos are wonderful resources for cultivating happy and robust brine shrimp colony. I definitely want to give it a try now. Thank you!

@WolfmanLarryTalbot Год назад

I started my micro-algae culture today based on your video. Awesome job!! I saw the Sea-Monkey sneak out. HAHAHA. I plan to remove equal water to what I put in and refresh the water from the Sea-Monkey tanks into the Mico-Algae tank. Any Sea-Monkeys from eggs that hatch will be transfered to a Sea-Monkey Tank. Also, I thik this provides a water change for the tank over time.

@eldritch-tailedfeydeer7320 Год назад

The forbidden Mountain Dew

@8Bit_Studio Год назад

This video is very informative I might start a farm for algae thanks :D

@timwolfe5575 Год назад

Great video (as always)! I am starting my own algae colony, and was wondering how often you fertilize the colony once it is established. Thanks for all of the great tips!

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Every time I add new water into the culture I add a little f2 fertiliser too

@timwolfe5575 Год назад

@@pico-cosmos Thanks very much!

@zero_eyes 3 месяца назад

It's great how simple you keep this, so many algae culturing videos are kind of complicated and intended for serious saltwater aquarium enthusiasts. I would love to see a followup video on how to take care of your culture once it's dense enough and ready for feeding. Like how to keep it active, alive, topped up, and just general pointers so that it can be kept as an indefinite food source for your Sea Monkeys!

@pico-cosmos 3 месяца назад

Yeah I definitely need to make a video on this at some point 👌

@BobClubbs573 2 года назад

Thank you so much, John!

@YazinZ_7392 Год назад

Brine shrimps are amazing just they they swim and grow to how they keep staring at me its honestly interesting its almost they are too intelligent for they’re size!

@Kday-tm8dj 2 года назад

Thanks for the tips!

@tastybloodworms7217 Год назад

3:13 yooooooooooooo dis duuude finally called the brine shrimp 😁

@chillybilly2347 Год назад

Great video. Is there any way of buying a starter culture of live Algae for those of us who are impatient or don't see any Algae growing for a long period of time?

@pico-cosmos Год назад

You can yeah - I’d recommend buying wither Nannochloropsis Oculata or Dunaliella

@rustyholt6619 4 месяца назад

how often to add fertilizer please

@caffienatedtactician 2 месяца назад

Awesome video!!! Would algae growing in like. A flower vase work for a starter culture!

@mk83_Daniel_Williams 2 года назад

cool idea!!!!!

@mrchicken6566 2 года назад

love these videos, I really like how a lot of your videos have info that is hard to find in most places. I was wondering, what do I do if I have a new tank with no algae at all? how do I get it then?

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

You need a starter culture of some kind to get the culture going, so my advice would just be to wait until it shows up in your Sea-Monkey tank 👌 opening windows and keeping the tank warm will definitely help

@metro3692 8 месяцев назад

I'm not an expert but I always heard not to use airstones when making phytoplankton. Thanks for another great video.

@cosmicmoonfrost 5 месяцев назад

Thanks again for the great video. I have purchased a phytoplankton culture kit, which contains a vial of highly concentrated phytoplankton. I will be using the kit to cultivate a little algae colony to feed my guys. However, could I add a small drop of the concentrated phytoplankton to my Sea Monkeys tank since the conditions are probably great for getting it to grow (I have a mini heater, air line and grow lights). I will still go ahead with the separate algae colony but I wondered if I could get a head start by adding live phytoplankton into the tank.

@hi-tech-guy-1823 Месяц назад

I Collect Rain / Storm Water Collect in Cheap Small Paddling Pools (inflatable For Toddlers, Dogs ) Its good for Fish tanks (Better For fish) But needs A Rain Storm With Heavy Down Pour(s) / Flash flooding (Atmosphere Cleaning) You have more of a Chance of Getting Micro algae Due The Atmosphere it Purging itself

@ubongenarvinchristopher6811 Год назад

2:38 BONK!

@ardentabacist Год назад

DUDE, THANK YOU!!!! You are AMAZING!!!!!

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Glad you found the video useful :) Are you planing to grow your own algae too?

@theguymadofgears Год назад

@@pico-cosmos 2:00 what if you live somewhere far from an ocean?

@theguymadofgears Год назад

The only body of water near me is a freshwater river

@pico-cosmos Год назад

@@theguymadofgears that’s a good question! I’m not sure if the algae in my Sea-Monkey tanks originates from the ocean, or if there’s simply just saltwater algae species that float around. Do you have a Sea-Monkey tank at the moment?

@theguymadofgears Год назад

@@pico-cosmos no

@TheCosmicHobo Год назад

Hey John, is there any substitute for the fertiliser? I'm starting to raise some brine shrimps and I want to cultivate some algae for them but I can't find any algae fertiliser in my country. I appreciate your videos, they're really helpful

@grogery1570 Год назад

Do a search for F/2 which is designed for labs working with algae. If you can't get any you can use tomato fertilizer which is very similar just remember to heavily dilute it. I diluted a liquid tomato fertilizer with 10 parts of water for one of fertilizer, then take one drop of the diluted solution and add it to a liter of water and got good results with dunaliela salina algae

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Hey mate, sorry I just saw this. You could possibly just try regular liquid plant food? I haven’t tried it myself but I think it would probably work similarly.

@GossamerAtara 23 дня назад

my main issue is getting the micro algae in the first place. I don't live near any saltwater where it would be growing naturally, and it hasn't started growing in my tank by itself after almost a month after starting it. maybe I can ask an aquarium store if I can have some from their tanks lol

@snailsandfriends 12 дней назад

Thanks for this video! Not having a starter of microalgae do you think I could take some at the Sea? If yes how?

@Marf-yt 2 года назад

I feed most of my colonies with live algae. One is a large tank that's 3 gallons (11 liters or so). They're all doing great. In your older colonies, do you do anything about the sediment and excess poop that builds up? I've been using a turkey baster to suck it up out of my large tank and putting it in a jar, which has become its own colony. Is there anything that will eat or break down this waste?

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

When I remove water from the Sea-Monkey tank before feeding them the algae I will usually remove waste at the same time to clean things up a little. The algae helps to break down the waste but I don't think it can ever keep up with the amount of poop the Sea-Monkeys produce 😅

@d-padqueen1103 Год назад

I wonder if astaxanthin could be cultured the same way? Asking because where I am - it's super expensive for a small amount (at £5 a gram!)

@Aquatic_Boys Год назад

Where do ciliates come from?

@Agisoul 3 месяца назад

Unfortunately, F2 algae fertilizer doesn't appear to be available from Amazon Canada. Will the process still work without it? Or will other liquid plant fertilizers also work? (And are safe for the Sea Monkeys?) Thanks!

@jet_GraveWhisperer 6 месяцев назад

I couldnt find the f2 algae fertiliser on amazon. I only found a different one but it wasnt an A and B step. Can you just use an microalgae fertiliser of any kind?

@pico-cosmos 6 месяцев назад

I think so yeah. Recently I’ve been using a cheap generic liquid plant food and it’s been working well

@cyril_lostlife2330 2 года назад

Yes you save my sea monkey thx

@madiriggs2490 Год назад

thank you for this info! i have started a new colony as an adult for the first time since childhood. they’re doing okay, but i’d love to increase their quality of life. in several of your videos you mention purple grow lights, anybody know if regular white grow lights work the same way? i currently have it on a 12 hr cycle.

@__qibli_3305 Год назад

Great video! Really, really excited to try it. One question though: How would one get some to start the culture? I don't have any growing in my current tank, and I can't seem to find anyone selling it. Is there any way to encourage it to grow in the tank to start a culture?

@ppparaone 9 месяцев назад

I bought a spirulina culture on Amazon

@linneaandersson5805 4 месяца назад

Do it have to be the same aquarium salt you used in the video? And do i need to use algae fertiliser too? I'm just curious. I like your videos anyway 👍

@francescolaessig7113 2 месяца назад

Will exposing your tank to the outside air work to seed algae even if you’re very far from the sea? I’m sure there’s algae in the air here too, but maybe not the saltwater kind?

@BuddyXR6 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the tutorial. How long does the live algae live for before having to make a new batch? Also do you need to keep the temperature at 26 degrees even after it’s made?

@pico-cosmos 6 месяцев назад

You can keep the algae in the fridge for a few weeks after you’ve cultured it 👍 it survives quite well at cold temperatures. Just make sure to shake the bottle in the fridge once a day so that it doesn’t settle on the bottom of the container

@BuddyXR6 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for your quick reply. Do you also happen to use a salinity tester? If so can you please recommend one and what should the salinity be in the sea monkeys tank?

@pico-cosmos 6 месяцев назад

@BuddyXR6 nah I don’t use one because brine shrimp have such a huge tolerance to a very wide salinity range. I usually try to have my tanks & algae at around 25ppt ish, but I don’t pay much attention to it

@hadassah_redeemed 4 месяца назад

Once the algae are going strong do you have to feed it again with the fertilizer or just the once? Thanks.

@jet_GraveWhisperer 6 месяцев назад

Also, for some reason I just can't grow algae in my tank. Would getting a live algae culture work, by putting that in the salt water solution?

@pico-cosmos 6 месяцев назад

Yup! As long as it’s a saltwater algae species like Nannochloropsis

@thegirlwiththedarkcherryha1929 3 месяца назад

What kind of micro algae were you growing in the video? Spirulina, chlorella or nannochloropsis?

@pico-cosmos 3 месяца назад

Most likely nanno

@jonathanperera5263 Год назад

Hi Picocosmos, I love your content! ❤ By the way, can we culture Dunaliella veridis the same way?

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Yeh this process should work for the majority of algae species 👍

@jonathanperera5263 Год назад

@@pico-cosmos Thank you. By the way, I come from economic-crises-hit Sri Lanka where the inflation rate is quite high. So I wanted to ask you whether you know of a cheaper alternative to the "f/2 algae fertilizer A and B"? To be specific, do you know of a "Chinese" alternative?

@pico-cosmos Год назад

@@jonathanperera5263 I've heard that regular liquid plant food also works. That should be available from your local garden centre :)

@jonathanperera5263 Год назад

@@pico-cosmos Thank you very much!

@orngjce223 Месяц назад

How would I get live microalgae when I live in an inland urban area that has no ocean or saltwater lakes within hundreds of miles? Can I order them online?

@micahfoo3159 7 месяцев назад

A very good video, iam gonna try it my self but anyway is it possible to sell some because my Tank have been growing very well but I don't see any algae and it has been 2 months and 1 week since I hatch my Sea Monkeys.

@pico-cosmos 7 месяцев назад

Do you live near the ocean, or are you inland?

@micahfoo3159 7 месяцев назад

I live near the ocean at Australia.

@pico-cosmos 7 месяцев назад

Hmm that's odd then. Perhaps try opening some windows to encourage air flow? Algae usually shows up in my tanks within a few days @@micahfoo3159

@Urmomurmom75 7 месяцев назад

At my petco I they sell phytoplankton in a plastic bottle the brand is seachem and the item is called reef phytoplankton and I found out that micro algae and phytoplankton are the same thing, the bottlesays it’s a mix of green and brown phytoplankton and I was wondering if it is ok to use and it also doesn’t say live on the bottle so idk if it will work or not because I do not have the time nor space to grow live micro algae, I love your videos and you have guided me through my sea monkey journey and you’re amazing keep up the good work.

@ElyseDobson Год назад

Hey John 🙂 So when you have finished culturing the live algae do you take out the heater, light and pump so you can start again on a fresh batch? If so is there a special way to keep the algae culture alive/healthy over the days/weeks it takes you to finish feeding it too the sea babies? Like does it have a used by time frame? Keep it sealed? Thanks so much in advance for your time 🙂

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Hey, so I keep the heater and airpump in there 24/7. I feed this algae to many of my tanks, so as the volume gets low I just add more saltwater in there again and start culturing more algae. I'm not sure how long it would stay alive in there though, as I always feed mine to the brine shrimp within a week or so. If you want to culture algae and then keep it for a long time you can bottle it in put it into the fridge. This will keep the algae alive but slow down its metabolism. Just make sure you rotate the bottle one a day to prevent algal sells from falling and resting on the bottom of the tank :)

@ElyseDobson Год назад

@@pico-cosmos thanks so much 🙂

@brothoftheages 10 месяцев назад

Hey John. Great job on the videos. Your tips have been a massive help. I have a question though. I’m planning to start a nannochloropsis culture and am wondering is it necessary to run the pump 25/7 for them. I’d like to be able to turn it off when I go to bed. Will this kill them?

@pico-cosmos 10 месяцев назад

Nannochloropsis is a non-motile algae, so without agitation it will eventually fall to the bottom of the tank where it may die. Turning your pump off at night will still probably be ok, but constant agitation 24/7 is ideal

@vexlegend313 Год назад

Thank you my fish will love these as food

@srgriffithauthor 2 месяца назад

Does only purple lights work? I already have a plant light i was gonna repurpose

@Ranger_GG Год назад

I don't have any stater for algae, Can I still grow it somehow?

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Yup! Watch my video titled “green sea-monkeys”

@chrome2731 Год назад

You should make a video about your oldest colony

@pico-cosmos Год назад

My oldest colony is only like a year old 😅 It's just a regular old ocean volcano tank

@CatJ1997 2 месяца назад

Does micro algae grow in freshwater also? Do you have to grow it in saltwater?

@TheRubberDuck77 2 года назад

I might look into doing this for my half-gallon tank, updated on the 10-20 year old eggs, they are doing great. There are 6 or 7 in there including at least 1 mating pair. They do seem bigger but that could be due to the curvature of the ocean zoo tank making them appear bigger, but looking top down they still seem a bit bigger. Where as the new eggs I hatched in my half-gallon tank seem I guess, normal brine-shrimp sized. I did get those off amazon also and not Transcience so I don't know if that makes a difference. I am now debating if I should move them over or keep them separate. If I do move them over should I have to do any kind of acclimation or do think they would be find just moving right over?

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

As long as the parameters between both tanks are similar I don't think it should be a problem. I'd recommend doing it slowly just to be safe though

@krghost4845 Год назад

As long u have another alternatif way to make microfood..u can keep sea mongkey life

@giseleperrin Год назад

What's in the water conditioner? If I want to upgrade the tank to a bigger one would I need to buy many conditioner packets which I think would be pricey

@pico-cosmos Год назад

It’s mostly aquarium salts and Sea-Monkey eggs. What size tank do you want to make?

@giseleperrin Год назад

@@pico-cosmos 2 gallon tank

@BryceHorton-bc4no 5 месяцев назад

Thts is an old video, but i’ve been wondering i have a small algae culture right now and im trying to culture it and proliferate it for this summer when im getting sea monkeys, but the ones i have now are freshwater, for the last 2 days i’ve been slowly adding small amounts of sea salt trying to acclimate it but im not sure if it will die or not, is it worth the effort? by the way i also don’t think it’s micro algae because its just about 40-50 small blobs of green and the rest of the water is just cloudy

@adisbern Год назад

Brine Solution 25grams Salt per 1L Water. @3:40

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Yup! For me 25ppt is a great salinity to encourage them to live birth their young

@SakuraBlizzardHime Год назад

New subscriber. I have no idea if you've ever addressed this before. But can these guys be housed in a sort of larger aquarium? Example, 1 gallon tank. Just curious.

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Yeah definitely! You can go as small or as large as you like for a brine shrimp tank

@iclickyoube4577 Год назад

nice video. But how to grow the algea when you do not have a tank yet where you can get a bit out to start the culture?

@Gelliot.tttbacon 11 месяцев назад

Hey I can’t find the micro algae fertilizer can you put the name

@pico-cosmos 11 месяцев назад

F2 algae fertilizer - there are lots of different brands

@Gelliot.tttbacon 11 месяцев назад

Thank you very much

@Gelliot.tttbacon 11 месяцев назад

I’m starting a sea monkey colony

@user-sb8oi4fc5c Год назад

Has anyone used Epson salt instead?

@Luigifan4ever11 Год назад

I have two questions if I may: 1. What do you do when your colony reaches that 'more than you know what to do with' stage? Do you transfer some into a new suitable aquarium, or is there any methods to help them not overcrowd the population? 2. If someone doesn't already have an algae culture in the tank, is there anywhere else to get some? Any places online? Note I don't have Sea Monkeys (maybe in the future), so this is more out of curiousity than any urgency.

@mrlynx68 Год назад

How would you grow algae without fertilizer or sea monkeys? I’m going to get some in a few weeks and want to have algae to feed

@ThKiwi 10 месяцев назад

Does it have to be a purple grow light? I have a bunch of white grow lights for seedlings laying around that I was hoping I could use instead of buying a new one.

@asmrchicken. 6 месяцев назад

What microscope are you using?

@gd.ritter Год назад

Is it not feasible to just use the grow lights on the sea monkey enclosure so the algae grows in there well to begin with? Why grow a separate dense container of it?

@tanman99 11 месяцев назад

You always say purple grow lights. Does it really matter what color it is? I’ve been using a full spectrum grow light that I had from an AeroGarden.

@pico-cosmos 11 месяцев назад

Nah it doesn’t matter much - the purple grow lights are just more energy efficient 👍

@KurbieIsDatBirb 10 месяцев назад

I fead my sea monkeys fresh moss from my terrarium.

@Joahnmarstain 2 месяца назад

Do you have seamonkeys In the algae tank?

@Hope_fordifference 9 месяцев назад

Could baby sea monkeys/brine shrimp survive in the jar you cultured the algae in as long as its salinity is ok I set up a bigger tank for raising my shrimp and used a jug of water from my outside pond (jug of green water)but i don't know if that meqns i don't need to feed the babies for a while

@pico-cosmos 9 месяцев назад

That jug of water probably has a freshwater algae species in it? Your shrimp need a saltwater algae species

@garrett3761 Год назад

I want to try to buy a starter culture online, is there a specific type of algae you would recommend for generic brine shrimp? Thanks John

@metro3692 8 месяцев назад

Dunaliella

@Mrleejunman Год назад

I was hoping this would be simple to grow , cant justify buying all that just for sea monkeys . Hoping i could stick a bit of algae in a bottle of salt water and itd grow hahahaha

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Haha I mean you could try that! Just not sure how effective it would be though 🤷‍♂️

@Montessori_Motherhood 7 месяцев назад

Can I add algae fertilizer directly to the sea monkey tank?

@pico-cosmos 7 месяцев назад

Sea-Monkey poop is natural fertiliser, so you don’t need to add any more into their tank

@nodatastored684 2 года назад

Is there a species of Brine Shrimp, reddish even with Green food that eats the baby brine shrimp or I'm seeing something weird

@pico-cosmos Год назад

No even the babies are much too large for any adult brine shrimp to eat. There is one Fairy Shrimp species which is large enough to eat babies though, do a google search of Branchinecta Gigas

@nodatastored684 Год назад

@@pico-cosmos that's what it looked like and was larger than normal

@madamedoobery 11 месяцев назад

Could you add the discarded water back onto the cultured tank, or would it throw the balance out?

@pico-cosmos 11 месяцев назад

Never tried it tbh so I’m not sure

@8Bit_Studio Год назад

Do I need to add those special salts? Or can I use sea salt, and do I need to use the algae food? 3:56

@pico-cosmos Год назад

I’d recommend using everything I did in this video

@8Bit_Studio Год назад

@@pico-cosmos are they required if not how could i start?

@pico-cosmos Год назад

@@8Bit_Studio Yes they're required

@Figsarebig Год назад

I have a question, when i started my tank, the algae grew first before my sea monkeys , would that be a problem ? Thanks❤

@areliomoran6241 Год назад

What do you do if you don't have any algae yet

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Check out my video titled “green sea-monkey”

@aguywholikesminecraftstory4116 Год назад

I forgot to add in salt what do i do?

@alanietran7558 2 года назад

Hello! I just went to my local creek to get water for an ecosphere. I was just wondering if I could add any sea monkeys in the ecosphere? I can add non distilled salt to the water if it will let them live in it.

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

It’s hard to say but Sea-Monkeys arent particularly easy to keep alive - they need quite specific conditions which would be difficult to achieve in creek water. If you wanted to try I would suggest adding in the Instant Ocean sea salt that I used in this video. It’s much better than regular sea salt

@alanietran7558 2 года назад

@@pico-cosmos okay i will try that!

@alanietran7558 2 года назад

@@pico-cosmos and i also meant to say non iodized salt!

@TheRachelosy Год назад

I saw a seller selling green water online and I was wondering if I buy them do I feed my sea monkeys alternatively with the growth food or move entirely to the green water?

@lornacy 10 месяцев назад

You said, "... more Sea Monkeys than you know what to do with!" What DO you do with lots of Sea Monkys? Does the population eventually stabilize?

@pico-cosmos 10 месяцев назад

Population size will self regulate, largely dependent on available resources. Feeding them live algae is the best way to increase population density 👌

@lornacy 10 месяцев назад

@@pico-cosmos Thanks! ☺️

@PuppetMaster8707 Год назад

Oh no please tell me you saved the Sea Monkey in the discarded water, and thank you for the video I think I will be loading up on some equipment soon and give a tank another go

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Haha yeah don’t worry I always check the water for Sea-Monkeys before discarding it :)

@endor8witch Год назад

can you use freshwater algae to start a culture?

@ppparaone 9 месяцев назад

How often do we need to add the F2 fertilizer?

@realnarwhal 9 месяцев назад

it should be only once when you start the culture

@pico-cosmos 9 месяцев назад

Yeah you only need to add it once. The only time you’d add more F2 is if you’re doing a new batch

@d.j.105 2 года назад

Great video ! Unfortunately all of my sea monkeys died due to overfeeding lol sad day. I will be restarting and starting this new food source. Do you think its harder to over feed them with the live algea because like you said, other foods don't rot in the tank like the live algea does ? Thanks man!

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

Yup! It's definitely more difficult to overfeed them with live algae. In fact I'm not even sure if it's possible 😅 Could be an interesting experiment

@d.j.105 2 года назад

@@pico-cosmos yeah im wondering the same thing lol I bought some supplies to start my live algea and ima use that instead of the powder growth food. Also, I wonder if we can find a freshwater algea starter kit so there's no need to take out water from the sea monkey tank so you don't oversalt it with feeding them the live algea

@pico-cosmos 2 года назад

@@d.j.105 the problem with freshwater algae is that it probably wouldn’t survive once you put it into the tank, so it wouldn’t be all that different from feeding them dried food

@d.j.105 2 года назад

@@pico-cosmos yeah you're right didnt catch that

@ddrha770 Год назад

I'm starting to create my little algae farm, however feeding my sea monkeys their growth food for now. Realize their poo is getting very long and they're starting to stick to it as well as the tank through it. I try to cut the waste off but they just get more stuck to them. Is something going on in my tank that is causing this? I read something about increasing my tank's salinity levels but unsure if this is the right course of action.

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Hmm that’s a tough one. I’m not entirely sure what causes sticky poop tbh :/ Sometimes my Sea-Monkeys have long poop trails but it never causes any issues. If I was in your situation I’d do a small water change, but that’s a little complicated as it involves mixing up your own saltwater

@oceanstoforests Год назад

But what DO you do with a tank that is overpopulated or that has a lot of dying individuals?

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Tanks will naturally find a maximum capacity, once it achieves this point the babies born into the tank won’t make it to adulthood. If you have a lot of adults dying in a tank then there’s probably another issue going on

@rareli6394 Год назад

I don’t want to buy so much equipment for the algae, but I still want to grow it. Can I get like some algae from a pond and use that as food? I know nothing about algae or growing aquatic animals.

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Pong algae will be a freshwater species, you need saltwater algae for it to survive in a Sea-Monkey tank

@rareli6394 Год назад

@@pico-cosmos thank you!

@Karlymoon999 Год назад

Maybe a silly idea but the brownish algae growing in my freshwater fish tank won't survive in salt water or help me get algae growing for my sea monkeys, right?

@pico-cosmos Год назад

Nah, you need a saltwater algae species

@Karlymoon999 Год назад

@@pico-cosmos Crazy those float around the air! I wonder if deeply landlocked sea monkey lovers have a harder time conjuring some. Thank you!

@pico-cosmos Год назад

I would assume they probably do yeah. I live close to the coast so it’s quite easy to get algae here