I like when hobbyists share ways to keep it simple and real. But I have to ask Ron....A brine shrimp video on RU-vid without a $50 brine shrimp hatchery or eggs from a green can? How can this be? LOL. No need to de-chlorinate if you do use tap water. Chlorine will gas off before the eggs hatch. And actually its believed the chlorine partially decapsulates the cysts so the hatch rate improves. In fact, bleach is used by many hatcheries to completely decapsulate the eggs. Plenty of info about this on the interweb. Floating in the tanks to maintain warmer temps is smart. I hatch BBS at ambient fish room temp (71-73). Excellent hatch rate every time. Just takes a little longer as he mentioned. 24 hours on average. He's also 100% right that (no airstone) coarse bubbles work better. Cool idea to have the eggs and salt combined to make it easy. Thanks for sharing. Always nice to see other methods that work.
Thank you so much for this! I just started breeding axolotls and I have micro worms, daphnia, and black worms. I wanted to add bbs to the mix without having to sacrifice more space for a complex hatchery. This will work excellent!
Great video Thankyou. Just a quick question please . Do you keep the light on at night time too? Or do you turn it off and they still hatch ok? Many thanks
When I hatch brine shrimp, the air fild with salt particuls makes a mess all around my hatchery because it has no lid. It makes me wonder if your method can also send salt particuls out of the bottle and into the tank.
It seems like an easy fix if you keep the bottle lid and make a hole big enough in it for both the rigid airline tubing to go through and some air to escape.
Question. If I plan on keeping the live shrimp in the fridge do I need to change or add water? How would I know the brine are no longer good to be fed?
Hey I need some help,I have aws deal brine shrimp,I’ve put them in a 2L tub with air pump on all the time,I put in a heater inside the tub and put the heater on for 30 degrees,It’s been 24 hours and the bbs didn’t hatch any ideas why?
“Easiest” bro.. you ever heard of adding salt to your Filtered water and literally dumping some tiny portion of brineshrimp and wait for it to hatch? You dont need pump nor light not even a heater…