live brine shrimp at Petmart

[budak]

anyone tried the live brine shrimp Petmart is selling (new stocks on Tuesdays)? $3 per pack. a bit XXX

[Sky Devil]

I bought it. Not bad. In the bag have lots of BBS. I siphon the adult out and keep it in a separate container. The adult ones can be kept alive for a week provided you feed them

[Anonymous]

Are they feeders or for keeping? They looks cleaner than blood worms. some are quite large for some of the fish i keep and if the brine shrimps has a high salt content, will the fish get health problems? Suppose the price can come down more if it becomes popular, maybe can use for certain fish.

[Sky Devil]

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On 8/24/2002 12:19:34 PM

Are they feeders or for keeping?
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Up to you!?
The high salt content thingy arh, nothin big lah!
Use sparingly and feed it like once in two days

[cheeboonyong]

i just hatched some baby brine shrimps at home. but it seems to be too tiny for my cardinals to eat. what do i feed the shrimps with to enable them to grow larger so that my tetras can eat them? i heard that i can feed them with yeast. is that true?

[bawater]

u can use normal baker's yeast from NTUC $1.50 a pack-5 sachets,use sparingly or u will pollute the holding tnk.
mix a pinch wif water & feed daily to keep water in a milky state.
brine shrimp are actually plankton feeders(without going into how big the food should be in microns),they feed on single cell organisms(which is what yeast is).
Feeding yeast to ur brine shrimps will result in growth but they will have no nutritional values. Brine shrimps & bloodworms are mainly used as vessels to carry vitamins & other enhancements such as HUFA(algae). i did use frozen phytoplankton to raise them but maturing them in numbers just not possible to do at home.
If u can get liquid vitamins- u just need to soak live brine shrimps or live bloodworms in them for an hour or 2(maybe 1 day if u want)
The most nutritional stage of brine shrimp is within 24hrs of hatching(or within 4hrs if u want to feed corals).They loose fat as they get bigger.
A life cycle of a brine shrimp is 60 days & they should be kept in saltwater @1.025 salinity.(artificial or real seawater).
How red the shrimp get at adult stage depends on how much oxygen it has- the less it has the more red it becomes.
HUFA enriched shrimps are almost green. Yeast raised shrimp are clear whitish to pinkish in colour.

K&K also selling them @$3 in tampines.
If baby shrimp are too small- u can keep them wif an open airline bubbling in a small plastic tank(those guppy kind),feeding them a few drops of yeast every 2 days. hold them for a week & u will have bigger shrimps. There will be a big die off daily- so the numbers decrease.

[DEA]

petmart is getting interesting
they had some drosophila there too
should have gotten some to culture

[chris]

Will they start to sell red worm cultures???

[loupgarou]

hikari frozen brine shrimp is just $1.80 for a pack and you probably get 4 times the volume of shrimp vs the life ones. so its not cost effective, maybe as a treat to your fish.

[stormhawk]

loupgarou, but the frozen brine shrimp doesn't take too well with fishes. they seem to ignore it. just my observations. the only fish that seems to enjoy it would be my predatory african perches.

[DEA]

small fish take it too
cardinals, rummy noses, guppies, all seem to like it
perhaps bigger fish find it a waste of energy to look for something that doesn't give a lot of nutrition
such as many cichlids, for example [:]