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    brine shrimp

    Is anyone else feeding brine shrimp? I know some people feed decapsulated cysts because they have the highest food value, they are easy, and are small for little fish. It takes some energy to hatch the cysts and they loose additional food value swimming around but I used to hatch BBS for the wiggle. The wiggle causes a feeding frenzy that I think is important for a sucessful breeding program. Now I decapsulate and hatch and enrich BBS cysts. Decapsulation reduces the energy requirement to hatch and increases the food value. Also there are no shells and the unhatched cysts are all edible. I used to use 90% hatch rate cysts but now I can use the cheaper 65% hatch rate cysts with good results. Enrichment lets me put back the food value that was lost and grow the BBS out another day to get better wiggle. I feed them all three days old or less because they get too big pretty quick for the little fish.

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    Re: brine shrimp

    I feed my 10 day old betta fry bbs twice a day and I had some trouble with swimbladder problems untill I started decapsulating before I hatched.  (I use 60%)

    but tell me more about "enrichment" ?
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      Re: brine shrimp

      Unhatched cysts are notorious for causing swim bladder problems.

      Well you have this marvelous wiggling food small enough for tiny fish ready to filter feed whatever you want out of the water so you can put it in your fish. The possibilities are limitless. The obvious choices are minerals, vitamins, essential proteins and fats, and color enhancers. There are are also medical applications and dewormers. Here are a few links:

      Aquafauna Bio-Marine, Inc. | Aquaculture Feed & Equipment Supplier
      http://www.aquafauna.com/Diets-AlgaMac-2000.htm#Highest


      Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture
      http://www.ctsa.org/upload/publication/CTSA_133631672859313490600.pdf


      Pentair Aquatic Eco-Systems
      http://www.aquaticeco.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/listings.categories/ssid/286
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        Re: brine shrimp

        hmmm i always wanted to breed some brine shrimp but i dont have alot of time to do it... would it be possible for hem just to live in a large number in a tank so even if they get eaten they repopulate themselves just as fast?

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          Re: brine shrimp

          Originally posted by firsttime-fishkeeper";p="
          hmmm i always wanted to breed some brine shrimp but i dont have alot of time to do it... would it be possible for hem just to live in a large number in a tank so even if they get eaten they repopulate themselves just as fast?
          No Brine shrimp are saltwater, but if you want to do that you can use moina or daphnia.

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          • #6
            Re: brine shrimp

            oh ok ill try that sometime soon =)

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