Re: Recycling BBS hatching water
Originally Posted by
MCSim
1) When harvasting bbs from the hatching bottle, stop the aeration and let the solution "rest" thus separating the empty eggs and freshly hatched bbs. You may wanna shine some light from the bottom to attract the bbs down to the bottom of the hatching jug.
The light doesn't quite work in my case, those silly BBS still stay at the top. I just have to wait patiently till the water level drops!
I placed an empty container underneath the coffee filter. Make sure that the container you use can hold all the water in the hatching bottle. Best if you can use a "tall" one.
I find men's hankies to work better and faster. The coffee filter takes forever to drip!
2) open the air valve and let the hatched bbs drain into the filter with container. Standby your hands to close the air valve when most if not all the water with bbs are out of the bottle. This way is to keep the empty eggs in the bottle.
The smooth wall of a coke bottle doesn't 'pull' the floating shells. Try this... find a coarse piece of sandpaper and roughen the inside in a horizontal stroke until you get a "brushed finish". You'll find most of shells sticking to the wall and by the time it's almost empty, there's nothing but pure BBS.
3) ... Use the turkey baster to "blow" clean water to wash those bbs stucked on the filter down into the container.
Wow! you have a turkey baster too? Cool! Where did you get yours?
Walah! You have all the leftover salt water in the "tall" container for another hatching session. But "how long can I use the recycled water" you may ask. Well, I manage to use it for about 3 sessions before puring away half the mixture and top up with fresh salt water.
Do not use the recycled salt water if it is cloudy.
I've just started to use marine salt for hatching and am into my 4th recycling. I'm kinda doofy when it comes to certain things, so I keep it simple... it's 3 heaping Chinese soup spoonful to 1 litre of aged water. Works like a charm so far.
1) use aquarium grade salt with aged water to get higher hatch rates. I don't have luck with kitchen salt and tap water.
I was using kitchen salt... but got tired of mixing fresh brine solution every other day.
3) recycled salt water will shorten the hatching time required
Yeah, I noticed that too.. together with better hatch rates. Wonder why this is so.
Thats it, enough of my BS.
...and that's alot of good BS!
I'm back & keeping 'em fingers wet,
Ronnie Lee
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