xjiang7
Well-Known Member
I started the brine shrimp project for Banggai Cardinalfish breeding. With enough brine shrimps feeding on live phytoplankton I can raise up Banggais healthily until they start to eat frozen food.
I use two 2.5 gallon plastic jugs with air stones for the brine shrimps and four 64oz mason jars for the live phytoplankton culture. Using live phyto will slow down the water in culture being deteriorated by uneaten food thus causing bacterial bloom to kill of the brines. That being said, I do 100% water change daily to maintain water quality when the brines are small, and once every two days when they get large. Since the container is not big I have no issue doing that and I normally save up water from water change of my reef tank for this,
I will start with hatching and separating the shrimps and egg shells, I use this aerated hatching kit for about 36 hr at 74 degrees for best results. The quality of eggs are also important, with one brand everything die off after 3 days post hatching with the method I use to raise them.
After that I use the fine screened net on the right to separate shrimps and egg shells from water. I do tap water rinse every time I collected shrimps using net with no problem, the shrimps are getting a slow stream of tap water rinsed everyday without issue.
After that the shrimps and egg shells are collected into a clear plastic container with saltwater, the shells are allowed to float to the top and shrimps attracted to the light can be collect with a turkey baster. At this point I would rather wasting some shrimps rather than collecting dead eggs and shells which will foul the water later
After the young shrimps are in the raising up bucket I started to feed live phyto right away, by multiple times a day to the water is light green and feed again after water cleared
With water change daily:
After the shrimps get bigger I use the net with bigger mesh so that I can remove feces and left egg shells
I use two 2.5 gallon plastic jugs with air stones for the brine shrimps and four 64oz mason jars for the live phytoplankton culture. Using live phyto will slow down the water in culture being deteriorated by uneaten food thus causing bacterial bloom to kill of the brines. That being said, I do 100% water change daily to maintain water quality when the brines are small, and once every two days when they get large. Since the container is not big I have no issue doing that and I normally save up water from water change of my reef tank for this,
I will start with hatching and separating the shrimps and egg shells, I use this aerated hatching kit for about 36 hr at 74 degrees for best results. The quality of eggs are also important, with one brand everything die off after 3 days post hatching with the method I use to raise them.
After that I use the fine screened net on the right to separate shrimps and egg shells from water. I do tap water rinse every time I collected shrimps using net with no problem, the shrimps are getting a slow stream of tap water rinsed everyday without issue.
After that the shrimps and egg shells are collected into a clear plastic container with saltwater, the shells are allowed to float to the top and shrimps attracted to the light can be collect with a turkey baster. At this point I would rather wasting some shrimps rather than collecting dead eggs and shells which will foul the water later
After the young shrimps are in the raising up bucket I started to feed live phyto right away, by multiple times a day to the water is light green and feed again after water cleared
With water change daily:
After the shrimps get bigger I use the net with bigger mesh so that I can remove feces and left egg shells
