Growing brine shrimp

Tomoko Schum · Jul 8, 2018

Although it's not as prolific as rotifers, brine shrimp multiplies pretty quickly to my surprise. I started with just a dozen adult brine which turned into this in a month or so. I feed a 1/4 tsp of whole wheat flour and dry spirulina powder (50/50 mix) with just a few granules of baker's yeast. I have been feeding my fish with a small amount of the shrimp, but the shrimp seems to be producing at a similar rate.

Mikedawg · Jul 8, 2018

I use S.presso and Algamac 3050 for enrichment of naups and get some good results as well.

GWHouston · Jul 8, 2018

Love this @Tomoko Schum. Is there any benefit to live shrimp vs frozen?

Tomoko Schum · Jul 9, 2018

This is just a fun experiment for me right now, but the benefit of live food is that fish eats them before they die and decay. Adult live brine shrimp is not high on lipid but high on protein. They often triggered spawning among my fish in the past.

beaslbob · Oct 10, 2018

Years ago I had a pint jar with brine shrimp using just bakers yeast

ash9965 · Oct 11, 2018

Check out this interesting video concerning brine shrimp in reef aquarium

beaslbob · Oct 11, 2018

wow that's a lot of brine shrimp

ash9965 · Oct 11, 2018

True dat

ash9965 · Oct 12, 2018

William Buchanan · Dec 5, 2018

Incredible! Thanks for sharing!

Tomoko Schum · Dec 5, 2018

It sure is incredible! I tried to replicate it by throwing a bunch of brine shrimp into my fuge with Chaetomorpha, but they just disappeared. I don’t know how they survive in there with very little food input.

ash9965 · Dec 6, 2018

I have quite a few mysid in fuge and overflow not sure where they came from Though

Tomoko Schum · Dec 6, 2018

They often come on live rocks. I used to have them in my fuge as well. Then, I had to restart my tank two years ago when I moved and gave a chlorine and acid treatment to my rocks to clean them. I no longer have any mysids in my fuge. I miss them. I am sure my mandarin does, too.