Growing adult brine shrimp
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My setup on growing brine shrimp to adult size. How I do it and you can do it too!
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Nice video, and this is something i can truly say, i never saw in the others chanels i follow.
The only problem i have with it, is that now you gave me a very good reason to set up another tank. My wife won't be happy hahahahah
Alejandro Ch thank you for the kind words! If you pick up a small tank (2.5 gal, 5gal etc) you can hide the tank from the wife!
@@SCAquatics hello..the eggs come in the aquarium wall?
Wives are never happy over another tank! lol
@@lesagraceakil7134 They floated after being released from females.
Please help! What are the little white vall looking things at bottom of my brine tank? Any ideas, @@SCAquatics
Finally - a clear and concise video about culturing brine shrimp!
Thank you 🙏
I'm definitely going to have to do this I love your idea and thanks to L.R.Bretz for sharing your fishroom with us..... great content as always thanks for sharing and remember to keep on tankin fish fam 🤜 👍✌️
Currently have a 2.5 gallon aquarium with a sponge filter held down by 3 rocks and a 5 watt water heater preset for 78-80 degrees. Your info has helped a lot. Today I went and got spurilina powder and it's honestly identical to the food that comes with sea monkey kits. I got into this by getting a bunch of sea monkey kits and have come to learn they are brine shrimp. I've read that sea monkeys are hybrids but I'm almost positive this info isn't correct. I'm pretty positive they are identical. My sea monkey kits have continuously failed and I learned why! My temp was at room temperature with stagnant water! Again your info has helped more then anything and I'm about to have my dream sea monkey tank! Only doing a 2.5 gallon because I'm not a fish guy. Just want some sea monkeys. Probably will feed these guys occasionally to my betas. Thank you so much! Please make more content!
Thanks for the comment!
How much salt do we use and how often to feed then and how are you getting on im just starting but just dont know how much salt from uk
Good video Steve,thanks, I never rinse mine off before feeding either,best easy to understand method I've seen for a long time.👍
Clicked on this video randomly while following my interest in sea monkeys. Blew my mind that you named the saltwater shop in my town. Nice to see a local on YT! Thanks for the information as well :)
That's pretty cool
Great video! I keep hatching BBS, but have been looking for a way to grow some too, for bigger fish. This was very helpful. Thanks.
Thanks
Good video; thank you. I was wondering how to grow them out. I started freezing the baby brine shrimp in mini ice cubes so they wouldn't just die and go to waste. I just ordered the spirulina powder before your video even ended!
Haha awesome! Good luck with your new project!
Great video thanks a lot for the tutorial, and thank you for letting Lucas do a tour of your fish room I got the link to your channel and subscribed from watching that video look forward to your new videos
Thanks ted! I appreciate the follow!
Nice video. I actually started growing out my bbs again. This time I placed them in a fish bowl and placed it in a 10 gal. Then after I did this, I remembered your video. So I plan to empty the fish bowl in the tank sometime this week. Thanks for sharing this video.
this was the exact video I have been looking for- for abt 45 mins now. Thank you !
So good, I've tried to raise them to adults over and over again. They always die after about three weeks. You've inspired me to try again.
Consistentcy is the key, how did it go?
@@weezypeezy1725 can't keep them alive longer than two weeks.
@@fatmasglobal sponge filter... very few eggs and foods at first... the algae needs to grow on the glass... and the Nitrogen Cycle needs to grow bacteria to process the wastes... or you get cloudy stinky water and death.
-Even though spirulina is much less dirty than yeast... it still decays and needs to be processed with the poop of the shrimp.
When I’m hatching BB I put used salt water after sieve and feed into a shoebox size tote until it gets 3/4 full. There are always artemia surviving or getting through the sieve. In fact if you put a light on it they are drawn to the light in a corner you can get several more harvests from that. I also feed mine Spirulina powder but I premix some with water and feed with a dropper. I shake it up first. They actually don’t need much air, periodic once a day even scoop some water and let it fall back in. You can leave them for months without anything and they will still live. They are just healthier with some kind of aeration probably. I had an air tube in the corner with just a few bubbles coming up once in a while
I’m so going to do this thanks for sharing the information and it nice to meet you fish fam 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
No problem 👍
It wasnt as difficult as i thought mine 9 day and growing you can see there legs omg thanks for your videos still because im learning from ya 😀
Is the light source absolutely necessary? Will ambient lights from a window work ? Or if I set a tub close to my other tank would it still work ?
Awesome.... I would love love to make this... thanks for the info
Hey man thanks for the video you actually inspired me to start my own grow out tank and document the process just wondering how often you feed them?
Santisreef once a day sometimes every few days. With how busy I’ve been sometimes it’s a few days between feedings
Thanks for the info can’t wait to start!
Thanks for this! Been raising seahorse fry and up until now newly hatched has been fine. Started a brine tank but wasn’t sure how to feed it.
I been looking every where for someone to show me how to do grow out tank im new to all of this and em doing it for fun but nice for my goldfish thankyou for video from uk 😀at last
You've definitely inspired me to create my own brine shrimp culture. I was considering daphnia at first, but brine shrimp eggs seem way easier to find than daphnia. Plus I already have some aquarium salt laying around and an extra air pump. Thanks for the video, and I look forward to more in the future.
Roscle Hilltopple thank you for the positive comments, I appreciate them! Good luck and it takes patience to get the brine shrimp culture going but keep at it and you’ll nail it!
How’d it go? Did aquarium salt work?
@@sokritlun1624 It hatches them fine, but doesn't have all the minerals for good healthy shrimp.
Rock salt works too , I used around 1 kg rock salt for 10 gallon tank (35 gm for 1 litre water). Haven't tested the salinity but its doing great. Brine shrimp easy to culture due to available eggs. Rock salt is very cheap compared to aquarium salt.
@@bipulshrestha1 I deleted my comment about only Marine salt, seeing people are doing Rock salt, as you say. Yes.
-so cool! We can make an outdoor pond filled with Water softener salt, maybe the waste water, too (if you use a softener).. and have seasonal shrimp in your yard, forever!! If it dries up and gets cold, like in Utah... and then warms up and it rains... Eggs hatch, and you have your own salt lake of brine shrimp!! Exciting!!!
(of course, use a non leaking pond liner.)
A thought: if you set a light at one side of your tank, they may all flock there so you can vacuum the mulm off of the bottom of the aquarium. If it's not too salty, you can then use that water, dilute it a bit, and water your plants. 🙂
Good idea
Thank you for the video ❤️ this is great!!
You're so welcome!
Your information was very easy to understand, changing the water every 6 mons is not bad
So cool, thanks for sharing. I am getting some baby koi hatched about two weeks ago from a friend and most have died due I believe to lack of brine, so I will be hatching my first brine this week just before they get to me and will try to raise some myself. Question do I have to heat the water to get a temp suitable for the brine shrimp or no, as I live on a Caribbean island where it’s sunny all year, and it’s in late 70’s-early 80’s always outside?
Trying to do the same setup thinking I need more algae bloom thanks
Great Informative Video! Thanks!
Keep the vids up man ✅
Thanks!
Well done! Common sense ways for the common man . Perfect!
Great information in this tutorial. 👍 I haven't tried sea monkeys before.
Cool video. I think im going to get some of these going in a 5 gal. How long does a brine shrimp live? What salinity are you running at? You can add vitamins and supplements to the water like selcon as well to get them even more nutricious. I would feed them spirulina though too. I dont need this much brine shrimp. Lol looks like you dont have a choice. Are they affected much by salinity changes?
nice video mate, how often do you feed them? i've just started a similar set up
Great video bud. Thanks man.
Very helpful. Thank you.
Great idea starting one today, btw hello from uk.
Armenestra Patey awesome! Well, hello from Ohio! 😎
Just ordered some marine salt, as I only had sea salt from the supermarket.🤔
I use marine salt as well, but mainly because I keep one salt water tank
Is aquarium salt ok to use to raise them into adulthood? I dont have any experience with ocean salt water stuff. Also, I have them in a small sterilite storage tote thats sitting on half of a plant heating pad thing. Oh and just an fyi, some plants cant tolerate salt.
what happens when 1. 5-day hatched BBS start smelling? 2. and what does it mean when they settle at the bottom? 3. and do they shed another layer after hatching? Thanks
Yes please post more content ivelrn so much from you thanks so much
I've setup a tank as well, but no filter yet, doesn't do a spongefilter suck al the baby brines in?
Great info mate!! Do you monitor ph levels in your tank?
I actually don’t. I probably should though
Awesome video. How often do you feed the brine shrimp with the Spriulina powder?
Usually once a day but not all the time. Sometimes I may skip a day or two (not really on purpose more of just so busy).
Tip for European people who want to grow (and/or breed) artemia successfully: get the "Sel de Guerande" (from France), the coarse grey one (between 1,50 and 2 euros for 1 kilo, depending on which store you buy it
Tip, when their water is crystal clear they have eaten all food, if water is ever cloudy don’t feed they haven’t finished food from before. That’s how they crash is over feeding. When you water change put the salt water you sucked out in a narrow but tall cup and what live shrimp are in there can be turkey basted off top &put back in. Love your video. I love watching them while I do dishes
Great video
hey this is super cool, I'm thinking of making a brine shrimp tank myself. If I wasn't planning on breeding them to feed to fish, will overbreeding become a problem? After some of them die in the tank, what happens to their bodies?
You can use an air line tube to suction off the bottom of the tank. The bodies will fall to the bottom if they die.
How often do you feed them and how much salt in the water please thankyou from uk thanks for video
Could you please let us know how you separate the adult brine shrimp from the BBS when you're looking to feed a fry grow out tank? I'm curious about that...
Just spyhon and then filter with a net. You should be able to not suck adults if you are careful
I use a small pipette and a torch on the side of the tank. The smaller bbs tend to flock to the light faster in my adventures.
Hi thanks for the video I would like to see how u collect eggs and how long are the adults shrimp live?
I don't collect the eggs, the adults give live birth when "happy". Not sure how long the adults live for, I harvested the adults for fish food but always kept enough to keep the colony going.
How much water do you take out when doing a water change thankyou from uk 😀can they be fed to freshwater tank goldfish
I'm struggling to grow them out past 3 days. Cycled 1 gal. Marine salt. Algae growing on sides of tank. Test water and salt daily. Any ideas?
Can the flow be to intense? Im running a tetra quiet air punp 20-40 gallon. In a One gallon tank tub, I feel like I'm stressing out the shrimp. Moved it near the surface and the flow rate is alot better but still much.
You can throw an adjustable valve on the air line to lower the flow. If you don’t have one you can also put a knot in the air line, the tighter the knot the lower the air flow.
Hi.. nice video you got there.. I am new with this aquarium thing. is it okay to feed your fish specially guppies with full grown brine shrimp.
I don’t think they’ll eat full grown brine shrimp. May be too big
One thing though! I don't have a hydrometer. How many tbsps or how would you measure the salt you use into your tank?
1 1/2 to 1 2/3 level tablespoon per litre. I just used “coarse salt “ with no additives i think its used for canning foods. You can add a pinch of epsom salts in there as well if you have it.
Thx great one 👍
No problem 👍
Hi there do you have to clean the tank at all and when mine over 4 weeks in and no water change just top off only and i meant to feed my goldfish but cant get myself to do it what size your tank ohh 10 gallon ok thankyou from uk
You can test for nitrates like you would with a normal tank and change water accordingly.
Hi, How often do you feed ? Do you check Ammonia, what about BBS poop ? Thanks
Wow your wife is cool to even allow you to have an aquarium in the kitchen
How often you feed the spirulina powder?
Was there a population explosion after pushing all the eggs back into the tank? Great video I’m tempted just like everyone else nice job :) Also do you think it would work with just lighting from the room?
I had the desk lamp so i figured it wouldn’t hurt. I bet room lighting would work but brine shrimp are attracted to light FYI. I do have more babies so maybe an explosion happened 😉
do you use any kind of water? im trying to raise mine in distilled but not having much luck, im trying tap next.
before feeding? I usually dont rinse but If i do its tap water
On my 5th try , somehow mine cant survive past 4 days everytime. Have airline, n spirulina powder feed.
I use dechlorinator + tap water when starting the tank tho. & my tank doesnt have live algae. Not sure if that is an issue.
make sure you run a sponge filter, brine shrimp produce a lot of waste so its possible they're dying from ammonia
How do you remove them and how often are you able to remove the big ones to feed?
Just use a fish net to remove them, i feed once a week to the puffer maybe twice, could feed more often I suppose.
How do you keep the older bbs from the adults if you want to feed them to your fish?
Use a course net to capture the larger shrimp
Great video, I’m going to start breeding these for my fish tank and I was wondering how long do they survive in freshwater before they die? I’m asking because I wanna know how much to feed my fish so I don’t over feed and then have them go to corners of my tank and die and dirty my water.
Im actually not very sure of their life span in freshwater... as when I drop them into my tanks to feed the fish they get eaten rather quickly.Just start with a small amount and up it from there
How do you clean your brine shrimp tank?
How do i set up tank for live shrimp
New subscriber. I live in Columbus so I'm looking forward to meeting you.
Awesome!
Thanks for the info! I'm really considering setting up a 'Sea Monkey' tank. I have a spare 2.5 gallon. Do you think that would work or would it be too tough to keep the salt levels correct? I have no experience with keeping salt water personally. I can get another 10 gallon if I need to, but at that size I'd have to find a spot for it.
A 2.5 will work. Salt levels are not difficult at all to maintain on a brine shrimp tank. The waste is so minimal that the parameters don’t seem to swing at all. Give it a shot!
Hello Stephen, I started a brine shrimp tank about 5 days ago. My tank is cloudy. Should I be concerned about that? The temp is at 78, my salinity is 30 ppt and the brine shrimp are eating the spirulina powder and look healthy.
IAmSugarHill it could be the spirulina powder clouding the water. Make sure you’re not adding too much each time. If everything is looking healthy I’d stay the course and maybe do small water change and recheck salinity level. When changing water try and use just a hose (instead of a full funnel like a python). Put a paper towel over the end to prevent sucking up of the brine shrimp.
@@SCAquatics thanks. I'll take your advice.
If you have algae growing in the tank why do you need to feed the spirulina?
How do you harvest the baby brine shrimp to feed?
Unapologetically Jamie I use a fine mesh net.
Can you feed phyto instead of the spirulina powder? The way I understand it is spirulina is dry algea... vs phyto being live. Difference is you can also have a live phyto culture so as not to constantly buy spirulina.
sounds good... did it work?
Nice video. If that tank cycled?
Yes indeed
Great video 👍 can you do a update its been a year is it still going strong?
Absolutely! i ran the tank for about 10 months then i needed to move some fish from my outside pond indoors from a cold spike in a hurry. i ended up feeding the rest of the brine shrimp then cleaned and repurposed the tank.
In freshwater daphnia cultures people add snails to eat through the mulm and their poop encourages infusoria. I wonder if adding nerite snails would work with brine shrimp.
I guess it’s possible. Never thought of it. It’s a great suggestion to try out!
After reading you comment I googled it. Nerites thrive in the same temperature and pH range as the brine shrimp. SOME are from saltwater environment and are happy in the same salinity as the brine shrimp. Fresh water nerites are actually brackish snails that can live in fresh water It might work. You (I) might need to acclimate the snail rather than just dropping it in from a fresh water tank.
72-78F, 1.020-1.028 salinity, 8.1-8.4pH
Buying a salt water nerites snail would be ideal.
Hey Stephen, do you think API aquarium salt will work for a brine shrimp setup?
IAmSugarHill I think it would
@@SCAquatics thank you
Is that set up ok for freshwater tank goldfish
How long does it take for them to grow to adults, i started a tank when i saw your video. They are growing you can see them a lot better now its been a little less than 2 weeks now and seems like theyre all still alive. You sir, are a good man lol
bambam_ dc it can take a month or two to get to full size. Once they’re full adults you’ll get offspring to keep the colony going. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
@@SCAquatics awesome thanks for the quick reply i thought i was doing something wrong since every where ive searched they say they grow fast. Not sure what secret formula they feed them with but mines didnt look like theirs lol Trying to grow these out to feed live foods to my killifish so they can spawn more
Killer beard bro 🙂
What is the purpose of having the light in all the time? Are the brine shrimp temperature sensitive? I have mine in a 2.5 gallon tank, with incadescent lights on top, and an airline.. The water got really murky and smelly, and virtually all the shrimp died(hence the murkiness and odor!) Do you think the failure was due to the water not warm enough? Also, how strong should the air flow be?
It could be the tank crashed the cycle. I ran the light all the time to get algae growing as a food source. Brine shrimp shed their skin often so water changes are needed to keep the quality of water up. Make sure filtration is on point.
Lagotto349. That’s what happens to me too.
Does the sponge filter suck up the baby brine shrimps?
I suppose it could, they wouldnt make it all the way through the filter but I guess they could get stuck on the outside of it.
How often do you feed them the spirulina
once a day or every couple days
Hello, I want to know the temperature of the basin, please
samer sabah 75-78° F
You have plenty of room to get the heater sideways? Wouldn't that let more heat escape off of it?
hasnt really been an issue with its mounting. Its at an angle now, dont think i really need it completely sideways as it works fine currently
What’s the salinity level in your tank? :)
Oh. What make and model of Sponge filter??
-Bigger or micro sized holes? I imagine the babies would die with the wrong setup.
-- I would love to get this going right on the first try... Thx for the great video!
Its a hakari sponge filter. Theres no size option but they are small holes.
@@SCAquatics Thank you!!
Great!! Will order some for outdoor tubs... at elevation in Hawaii.
Nice temps, always.
(At sea level, you can have all the tropical fishyou want to swim with... in unheated ponds all year.)
Great setup. Right, the small amount of salt you get into the tank is NOT going to hurt a thing. Probably helps more than anything.
Yep. Salt is very beneficial to the tank. The downside would be too much would effect plants but we’re taking such a minuscule amount that’s on the hatched brine that it wouldn’t even register. That and with water changes there would be pretty much non existent salt in the tank. Washing brine shrimp seems like a waste of time in my opinion.
do you use regular tap water dechlorinated?
Yep
How many times should we feed the bbs in 1 day
Once a day
Isnt that a brix meter ??
How long do your adults live?
I have a ton of white little balls at the bottom of brine tank. Anyone know what they are?? Help
Don't the shrimp get trapped in the sponge filter as well?
What do u feed the brine shrimp
Spirulina powder and or yeast dissolved in water
Hi..can we harvest just the eggs?
I’m unsure, I never tried to.
Does anyone have a link to the spirulina powder? I can't find it
The specific one I bought is no longer available but I found a similar one. Spirulina Powder Organic - USDA Certified - RAW Nutrient Dense Over 70% Protein Per Serving - Purest Source Vegan Protein - Superfood - Rich in Vitamins and Minerals www.amazon.com/dp/B06XRZH2R1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_GKAyDbC6QK8BR
Health stores usually sell them. Call them.
Could I use kitchen salt ?
Non-iodinized at a minimum. Kosher or canning salt is better.
I use aquarium salt or canning salt (whatever is handy), and I add a teaspoon of Epsom salts for every tablespoon of regular salt I use.
Is your salt water dechlorinated?
No
So how large do they get ?
.75” or so on their body but they have a tail that’s the same length
So you use the same water ....for how long
Just basically water top offs, maybe a 25% water change every 4 months