On this video I'll be showing you how i raise brine shrimp to adults to feed to my fish . We'll be covering hatchers, salt mix, and what foods I feed my shrimp to get them to grow quickly .
Hi Mark, followed your instructions and have been harvesting adult brine shrimp for month's now. All I have to do is feed them and a water change now and again. Now have an endless supply of brine shrimp. Great for conditioning fish to breed. Great video
been looking for a video about breeding brine shrimp for hours. This was the only relevant and informative one i could find...finally. Thank you so much for posting this!
thank you sir for the in depth procedure for what I wanted to do with the brine eggs I have and hoped to raise to feed betta. You hit every point needed to perfection. great job, thanks.
Hi Mark Could you do a video on how you siphon out water when doing water changes and how do you mix and keep salt water for replacing the water after w/c?
The best fish keeping channel on You Tube...I have watched nearly every video you have on your channel info is great and educational just love it all....and the searching for wild foods and critters is great...just retired and have set up 2- 65 gallon freshwater second tank is everything from the lakes and rivers around me thanks to you Mark your the best thankyou
Great information! I've seen plenty of videos showing how to hatch the eggs, but very few on raising them beyond that stage. Thanks for the help; I'll be setting up a hatchery soon.
This is a highly informative video, I will definitely try this. Brine shrimp eggs are not cheap in my place so I may be able to cut cost with this method. Adult brine shrimp also looks really cool. Thank you very much!
I was so inspired by this video I recently remember I had a vile of brine cysts sitting in the fridge for the last 4-5 years grabbed a shot glass some salt water from the reef and a old halogen lamp. Sure enough little buggers swimming around. no air. I seeded some into the refugium which has a bunch of other pods in there some quite big under magnification. Really a wonderful and insightful video sir !
Probably the brand of Sea Monkey's or any similar product therewith .Is there a way to produce eggs in the Cystic state as a hobbyist ? I would assume let parameters fall short ? Has anyone tried it ?
What I find so cool and so engaging about Mark is his attitude toward life. He has the camera on a small volume of aquarium water of perhaps ~ 60 cu.in. of habitat, and he sees an absolute universe of life. He meticulously points everything out to you. Amazing. What I've always experienced, wonderful. My kinda person. This dude's in-touch. Sensitive. Competent. Responsible. Honest. Learned. Sincere. Not-too-much. I don't want his head to get too big. It is true though. I'm very impressed. I've not seen the likes of him anywhere on the net. He is very good at hands-on plain this-is-how-you-do-it step by step easy very well shown illustrated procedure. Excellent. Mark, write some bloody books man ! Thank you so very much. Your worth more than you know, believe me. I've kept fish since 1968.
Wow! Thank you . . . just what I was looking for. I want to keep my Sea Monkeys as pets. I've purchased an independent batch of brine shrimp eggs so I can do a bigger tank. I just subscribed.
All the gear for my first hatchery arrived this morning, spent some time today Googling how to keep them once they're hatched and then this video comes out. Absolutely perfect timing. Cheers Mark.
Thanks for the informative video. Need to start hatching brine shrimp for the baby guppies. This setup looks pretty easy with minimal expense. Going to use this technique. Thanks again and take care.
Every single video of yours is full of fascinating stuff with high quality camera work and great narration. Thank you Mark! You never fail to amaze us.
Very interesting! I hatch brine shrimp all the time but I always feed them right away. If I ever raise some to adulthood I'll be sure to come back to this video. Thanks for posting this.
I didn't think raising brine would be difficult. I am subscribed to your channel because you explain things in a very simple way. I will give an update about the eggs I just put into the tank.
Thanks for this one mark 👊🏻🙌🏼 We bought official branded sea monkeys for the kids. Put the little tank in my boys room next morning they had been knocked all over the floor... 🙄🤣 I have fish tanks anyway and had always fancied hatching my own and feeding live food so I bought a puch of brine shrimp eggs on amazon, hatched a million eggs, fed majority but I want to raise a few for the kids in a little 14 litre tank. Thanks for the step by step guide mate 😁
Hi Mark I failed a few times, mostly didn't care about temperature,salty water and food, watched again and again video think brine shrimps are amazing themselves,can grow it as aquarium critters, not only as food thank you 👍!!!
Well, that's what i wanted ti see, thank you very much for explaining this to us and espwcially to me, it was always easy to hatch them and to feed fish day or two but problem was to keep them alive longer then 5-6 days, i did it only once and with obly one single shrimp alive for 5 weeks it grow up to 13-14mm long and was vwry interesting to watch it in ball aquarium swimming around.... But id end up like all others before him at the end...
I have a question about air flow at the different life stages... I’ve managed to hatch mine, and I’ve moved them into a slightly bigger tank with an air pump, but the air pump is pretty fast... if it’s too fast will it kill the babies?
Funny thing I have brine shrimp for my biology class and they are just starting to mate in pairs!! So excited. I didn't use any bubble machines or anything I just stirred the water lightly several times a day. But I am now going to have a new colony!
Heaven Kleinschmidt did you add the salt to water etc etc...it’s gonna be my first time using brine shrimp eggs pack bought from LFS (my god the pack was expensive = $60 Aussie ) just about died when I realised. I am scared to try this even though mark is so informative and makes it look easier. I just don’t wanna stuff it up. Lol to mark,,,,I remember “sea monkeys” being advertised in the back pages of the MAD Magazine in the ol days.
@@lisasaxon7828 yes. 2 tablespoons of salt per quart of water! And I didn't add a pump i just used a stiring stick and stired it every couple of hours and even then i didn't stir that much and they reproduced massively! Feed them yeast just the active instant yeast you find in the grocery store they love it but only a pinch or it will get out of hand and they won't be able to eat it all! I think you should try raising them because they sure are beautiful to look at! You can see a brine shrimp video on my Instagram if you have one @beautifullyhappy5119 its farther back and i do have gecko pics on there to. I hope that helps and i hope you enjoy raising them!
Super excited Mark. Thank you so so much. Gr8 information Do you do any water changes and if the water evaporates do you top up with plain water? How often do you feed spirulina? When u mixup the spirulina in tube do you store in fridge? How long do you grow them up until you feed it? Do you restart culture or Its self sustaining after 2 weeks?
I normally make more water up and keep it in a 25 litre tank then do 10% water changes once a week. Replace evaporation with fresh dechlorinated water . Just cloud the water with food then once it clears that means they've eaten it. Then add more.
HI Mark. I learn a lot about this video. Thanks!. I have a couple of questions. A) After putting aside the newly hatch brine shrimp to their new tank to grow. How many days do you wait to separate them again into a new container? B) Do you allow the light to be 24/7 over them? C) I have a 100wats light. Is this too strong? D) Could you please do a video showing how you clean your brine shrimp tanks and how often? Thank you in advance.
The wattage on your grow light should depend on water volume. 25 watts is sufficient for a 10 gallon tank, 100 should work for 20-50 and sometimes up. The strong light can overheat the tank or stress adult brine shrimp, but that's it, it "can". I would honestly suggest something like a regular light bulb, 10-15 watts. This will help grow algae without frying it. you mainly want light to induce hatching, this is more important with dry cysts you buy at the fish store. You dont need 24/7 light after hatching, and you will never need to keep it on 24/7 unless the whole culture dies off and you need to dry out and rehydrate resting eggs. Since all branchiopods, from brine shrimp to fairy shrimp to triops, prefer live algae and biofilm, you'll want to have less than 16 light hours a day to avoid bleaching edible algae like chlorella and spirulina. you never need to clean the tank in any way, unless to remove salt deposits or big clumps of biofilm. to clean salt spray, add water until it covers the salt deposits and gently apply a straight razor to the glass after waiting for a few minutes. Be careful not to scratch the glass, especially if its curved. as for biofilm or algae overgrowth, you can just gently scoop it up.
Really great video Mark, I was wondering if you have any suggestions on how to collect the eggs? I was thinking siphoning with a small net attached to keep the adults out? Have a great time!
This is fantastic stuff. I’m looking into starting my own hatchery for brine shrimp to feed my reef tank. Instead of using a filter, would doing weekly water changes be enough to keep the adult tank going?
This was great. I felt discouraged from several failed attempts to get these goddamn little buggers to grow out. At least they're super cheap. I'll try again. Thank you!
Hi i am trying to raise brine to adulthood but they don't seem to be making much progress they have been in the tank.for 5/6 weeks now and are only a little bigger than when they went in i am feeding them on spirulina and the sg is 1024 where am i going wrong. Thanks for the excellent work.
Hey Mark, following your awesome instructions, my BS are now 8 days old, is it normal for them to seem less active at this stage? (still constantly moving but noticeably slower) thanks.
Thanks, this is extremely helpful. Only thing I´m not sure of, is which filter I can use. At 9:20 You talk about a sponge filter which you went to show, but then that wasn´t in the tank. So I´m not sure what type and power filter to use there? Thanks in advance for your help.
i been doing brine shrimp for 23 years i do it slightly different same results you wont go far wrong with marks video i use salt hydrometer, salt solution with a little b/s 1.018 to 1.022 =26 to 30 pp. temp 80/82f 24 hours nice one mark..
Thanks for the video. It looks easy to grow them but I failed. Only one or two survived until adult. I use small aquarium to raise them using sea water about 27 ppt. Temp about 23 degree Celsius. I feed them green water everyday. Aerator and lamp 12 hours per day.
This is what I've learned from reading comments etc. Don't use sea water, the salinity is too high. Most brine shrimp naturally come from brackish lakes, not the ocean. Don't use green fresh water, only green salt water. If you add fresh water you are changing the water parameters too much. Follow the method in these videos using salt solution and suggested foods and you may have better success. I just started my first hatching today, so I'm not an expert, this is what I've learned so far.
