Tutorial: Decapsulated Brine Shrimp
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- čas přidán 29. 09. 2009
- This is a DIY tutorial, demonstrating how to decap you brine shrimp. Decapsulating or decapsulation is the process of chemically removing the chorion or shell or the brine shrimp cyst.
SO EASY! and it works .. I love that I do not have these darn 'egg shells' to worry about any more:) I decapsulated last night, rinsed, started them in salt water with the air again and tonight I have a whole container of nothing but baby brine shrimp swimming around .. THANK YOU so much for sharing:)
+Sherrie Hendricks how long do you rinse them for? I followed this to the T twice and nothing. i did notice a slight bleach scent so i assume that i didn't rinse long enough. How long did you have is in the bleach?
+Ezequias Sanabria .. I rinsed for several minutes .. then I turned my my sieve upside down into a larger bowl and rinsed the sieved into it, then poured the bowl with decapsulated shrimp back into the sieve and used water in the bowl to pour through the sieve and rinse (I hate wasting brine shrimp:) and then I rinsed some more .. just was not going to take any chances:) Then I turned the sieve upside down over my 'thing' (soda bottle) and poured a little water through it to get out all the dbs and then added salt water to the bottle and started the bubbles. I have actually done it twice now .. and it worked both times .. will be doing it again tonight as I have a new batch that will be going free swimmer sometime tomorrow. One thing I did do on the second batch was not use full strength bleach .. I bubbled the eggs for about 1/2 hour in half as much plain water than I normally use then filled it the rest with bleach. Just do not take your eyes off it when they are bleaching .. they start the color you will see, then go kind of an ash color, then poof go orange .. really does only take 2 to 4 minutes:)
+Ezequias Sanabria .. just noticed the question about how long mine were bubbling in the bleach .. 4 minutes the first time (his way), the second time I was not watching the clock, just the bottle of eggs.
Excellent video, informative, directive and to the point. Thanks for sharing
Unfortunately, it seems you don't seem to post videos, any longer. Regardless, I hope that you check your comments from time to time.
I appreciate you taking the time to post this video. I can tell that it's a bit old, yet the information is timeless. Thank you!
Fry love decap...if you feed the decap(without hatching them) the size of the embryo is about 230um versus 430um for a nauplii (baby brine shrimp). Decap also carries higher nutritional value as the BBS have not or will not use as much energy to burst the corion (shell). The only negative of not hatching decap is they are not alive and moving which could be problematic for predators that enjoy the chase. Let me know how they like it!!!
Dude, THANK YOU! for the coffee filter idea. Wow it's been 13 years ago this video was made :)
Thank you. Hard to believe 13 years and going strong. Thanks for the comment.
@@saltlakebrineshrimp It was the first video when I searched, and I'm so glad it led me to yours! Honestly, bro I can't thank you enough for the coffee filter idea! It saved me $35. I got the filter today at Walmart and it worked flawlessly. This is my first time hatching brine shrimps. My puffers really liked it. Have a great day! 🙂
This is so helpful thanks
Thanks for your question. Always rinse the bleach off..."until there is no more bleach smell" with the coffee filter or brine shrimp net (shown in video). If you leave the brine shrimp in the bleach solution too long it will "cook" the eggs and therefore they will become a non-hatching product. I hope this helps.
Yep
I didnt know that
Thanks alot
great informations, thanks!!!!!
thank you
Totally. If you have Decapsulated brine shrimp you will want to store it in a saturated brine solution and keep in the fridge.
If you have already hatched the brine shrimp it is best to rinse in fresh water (as salt water does not freeze well) and then freeze the amount you would like to feed to your fish in ice cube trays. Each cube would be one feeding. This works really well. As the ice melts in the tank the fish continue to eat!!!
Hi, if I freeze the hatched ones after rinsing with fresh water, and later defreeze them again during feeding time, will they be reactivated/alive and therefore be moving in the fish tank? Thx.
@JeanMarx1982 yes...a light source is needed for optimum hatch rate.
dude fricking awesome man thanks for.posting this snd excuse my errors iavw
@kluwkidd: Thanks for your question. When you Decap brine shrimp it actually chemically removes the chorion or shell so they are "shell-free." This makes it so you do not need to separate anything. You may feed the decap directly to your fish (after rinsing of course) or continue to hatch the decap in your hatching container...then you can feed everything in the hatching container to your fish without any worries of introducing shells. I hope this helps.
There are several reasons...the biggest is perhaps that if you had a lower hatchout rate with a poor separation, decapsulating them would eliminate the cysts and increase your hatchout. Your fish would also be able to consume even the unhatched brine shrimp without worries of cysts lodging in their digestive tracts. Also if you didnt want to spend 24 hours waiting to hatch the BSE, you could do this in 10 mins and feed directly to themjust rinse the Sodium Hypo off! :)
@chrisaquarium THanks for the information. I too use a different type of filter...however I wanted this video to be able to show people what to buy at their local wal-mart. But thanks for your post.
Quick n easy....
@honeybees1...You are correct, in that if you leave the eggs in the bleach too long you will have "non-hatching" decapsulated brine shrimp. This would basically "hard boil" the egg. Again it is very important to watch the coloration change so you only take off the chorion, and not cook the egg. We decapsulate brine shrimp in our industry all the time. Infact our company produces non-hatching decap at the rate of 500-600 lbs per day. You just need to be careful when using chemicals.
I agree. A coffee filter takes longer than a brine shrimp net. However if you are unable to find a brine shrimp net, a coffee filter will work just fine. I have used it serveral times and never once had problems with the eggs cooking or artemia dying. But I do agree that a brine shrimp net is by far superior. Thanks for your comment.
Good..
Another benefit from decapsulating the eggs over hatching them , is you actually get 100% use of the shrimp as opposed to a 75% or even 90% hatch rate. I was shocked to know that the embryos have a higher energy content though.
Cool knowledge yo
@christagoh Good questions. If eggs have a 0% hatch-rate then they will not hatch. Decapsulating brine shrimp with low hatch-rates (10%-25%) dissolve ALL shells and make it possible to have 10%-25% alive and swimming while the remaining 75%-90% stay in their embryo (basically dead). These unhatched embryos however are still great for your fish, and very digestible (with out shells). Their energy content is also higher than hatched brine shrimp as they do now expend energy to break the shell.
@denisesfeathers It is best to feed the freshly hatched brien shrimp 24 to 36 hours after harvest. Growing brien shrimp to adulthood is very difficult as they will die in the hatching cone. You would need at lest two large tanks,
and then transfer the brine shrimp into the other salt water tank once a week, clean the tank they were just in, make a new saline solution and continue with the transfer once a week, feeding spirulina powder or bakers yeast. It is possible, but very time consuming.
@JUNAID187 If you dehydrate the embryos, they will last for years.
Yeah that's what I figured.
The bleach smell would kill me. Nice video chap.
Dennis Younger I was thinking the same thing, insta migraine
I learnt how to hatched brine from you and now it is doing pretty well. But now i'm going to decapsulate it because of the shell issue. It takes too much work to filter it.
@St33lCrush3r: I have never added any dechlorinator into my tap water...however I am sure that all tap water is different. There is available a Chlorine Water Tester (bascially test strips)...If you are worried I would recomment using these to get the correct balance.
@kingcrimson234 I guess you could...I wouldn't however. :)
what happened to the caps? do they just dissolve away?
@azizborashed Spirulina Powder and bakers yeast
hello friend I have a question I need a light source for the Artemia hatches?
Is there a way to do a large amount of these and then store them for future use?
Put a lot of salt in low amount of water
Put em in freezer
It lasts a month
@saltlakebrineshrimp Hi! Thanks for the reply! I glad to know that i can still used those 0% hatch-rate eggs. But I stil have some question about it. If the embryos are still alive(or I mean still can be feed to my fry), why cant they hatch? I read about feeding fish with decap BS egg, and just like you said , its better than the hatched egg since their energy hasnt been used. But if the eggs doesnt hatch, does it mean that it doesnt have much energy on it since they cant break the cysts?
Idk u r confusing me out bro
I think decapsing 🙌 just helps to feed fish
Just so u dont have to waste eggs
@saltlakebrineshrimp Where does the removed "chorion or shell or the brine shrimp cyst" end up? is it dissolved or does it need to be separated from the eggs?
@cradleofify It sure can....this happens with dirty egg.
Can I use calcium hypochlorite instead of sodium..becos that's the only bleach available in my country.. thanks
hi again! can you freeze the rest of the baby brine shrimp that is was not eaten into the fridge and feed it again after a few days?
I was told that the decapsulated eggs could be fed directly to my fry and that's what I've been doing.
I followed your decap tutorial and got a nice dark orange but when tried to hatch it, the eggs just won't hatched. only have a few hatched out. the egg is the same one as what you're using. without decap it hatched in just 14hours. Now it is over 30hours and still nothing. I also just did Nother decap and let it running on hatching state now. but this time I only take 30sec to bleach it.
how long can you keep the decapsulated shells ?
Brine Shrimp ARE salt water creatures. They are harvested from the Great Salt Lake, Utah. Depending on the year the salinity fluctuates...but a good average is about 10% salinity in the GSL.
Remember to thoroughly rinse the bleach from the eggs if you are doing the decap method before introducing to your tank.
Hi I am looking to grow brine shrimp. I have full grown fish and my firemouths will not eat the hatchings. But I think they may eat adult ones as they like feeder guppy fry. I have tried to raise them but they die on me. What do I feed them and how often and can I keep them in the one leader bottle.
will calcium hypochlorite work instead of sodium hypochlorite?
Hi!
I just tried this yesterday. Now, i wonder, I used those eggs that i couldnt hatch which is i think 0 % hatch rate. I decap 1 teaspoon and then tried to hatch. Today after 24 hours, i havent seen and nauplii swimming around(which should be seen after 15 hours?). The question is, if you have bad eggs or 0% hatch rate, is it always 0 % hatch rate even if you decap it? if yes, is it still wise to feed those unhatched decap eggs to your fry(i mean, protein, etc)?
do you filter the eggs immediately after the eggs change color? Is using tap water to hatch brine shrimp safe for the fishes to eat?
just want to let you know that I have successfully hatched my decapsulated brine shrimp in my second trail. The bleach I'm using is an extra strength and I only need to leave it in there for 30s. More than that like 1 minute won't be hatchable. My first experiment still not hatched, it was 30hours older than my current one. The second experiment hatched in just 14hours. I am using temperature of 30 celcius :)
Hi, do u remember the concentration of the strong bleach used? Thx!
@@snippetshub It was just a non-scented bleach off the shelves with the word extra strength on it. It was done 9 years ago lol.
@@maxxibro Noted with thanks.
There are many factors for the amount of bleach used and time left in the solution...you mostly must find what works for you. The concentration of Sodium Hypo in the Bleach (i.e. is it 4% or 25%?). If stronger you could dilute it. What is the stocking density? (i.e. less egg = less bleach). The cysts corion (shell)...is this from a harvest year where the shell is thick or the thin? (as no two harvests years are the same.) I showed what works best for me. I hope this helps. Good Luck!
Can u store the decapsulated brine shrimp for future use?
can you eat the dry brine shrimp eggs?
hi i have everything ready now, i just wanted to know if i can feed this to my saltwater fish and corals? just a bit nervous.. thanks
Its good tho
Just dont forget to rinse them properly.
I followed the directions but my hatch rate afterwards was probably less than 1 %. My fry don't like the unhatched eggs either. Have I done something wrong ?
Awww
Bro
Try making a accurate solution
25 grams per liter of chlorine treated tap water
With a pinch of baking soda (bicarbonate of soda)
My brine shrimp are not hatching will it help?
Couple questions: 1. Don't u have to treat tap water with conditioner to remove chlorine and remaining chlorine from bleach? 2. Do the capsules dissolve or do they get filtered out? Thanks so much for any help
kitty katbaby So it is not necessary to treat tap water, however you will need to rinse the finished decap eggs after the treatment. As far as the capsules or chorion, they usually do dissolve but it has many factors that play into it (ie grade of brines shrimp eggs, portions of chemicals). Hope this helps.
dp they need de chlorinated water?
hi , just a curious question, wont bleach kill those fish and the brineshrimp in the process ?
Where did the shells go? Did they just dissolve in the bleach?
What is decapsulated brine shrimp? Is it the brine shrimp eggs that won't hatch?
Its basically.....when u feed bbs to ur baby fish
When baby eat empty egg shells
They die bcz their intestines get blocked
So decalsulation of brine shrimp eggs help to dissolve shells
So u dont have to filter them out to feed ur fish
Any measurements regarding the water ratio and bleach ratio ?
He did not dilute the bleach concentration with water, if that is what you were asking. However, if you wanted to know the concentration levels, "Clorox" brand bleach has approximately an 8% Concentration (between 1/12 to 1/13 Sodium Hypochlorite), while many bargain brands may be 1/2 that (about 1/25 Sodium Hypochlorite). I would check the concentration level, on the packaging, to ensure it's at least 8% Sodium Hypochlorite.
I would try this but are you sure you have to use that much bleach?? That's quite alot.
how can i let the brine shrimp grow bigger?
Dude
U need green water (dissloved) algae
And air flow
They will survive through easily
Use dechlorinator for the rinse? Looks like chocolate milk, btw.
where does the shell go? 0.o
Its a potato reaction
Shells mix in liquid
When u wash
They drain out
Like when u mix sugar in water and wash the glass later
?????
OK so my mind was kind of blown by this. Your telling me that you can strip the shells off the brine shrimp with bleach and rinse them off. Then put them in salt water and they will spring to life? So I could buy a can of already decapsulate shrimp and dunk them in salt water and they will spring to life the same as buying the regular eggs? I always thought the decapsulating process killed them.
kamoboko86 no. the ones decapsulated for fish food are essentially "hardboiled" in bleach for much longer than they are in this video. They are dead
Can you hatch this guys after using bleach?
Yea bud
Wash them properly
anyone?
theres another way faster and using less blech
Holy shit. Seriously I've been doing it slow forever?
Ok, this is a decent try at a video - however - the coffee filter takes WAY too long to rinse! By the time you're rinsed, your decap brine is dead! Need a better filter...poor choice.
2019 anyone?
Yep
Thats me
That sure uses up a lot of bleach for just a spoonful of eggs.
got a lot of foam from doing this..
This is usually due to poor quality of egg with regards to hatch rate as well as what the industry refers to as "dirty egg!"
+saltlakebrineshrimp ok thank you
I heard a baby :)
Wasting too much bleach. Half a bottle of bleach for 3 grams of food
Yeah feed your fish bleach, itll be fine
Brine shrimp aren't salt water.
That is a SHITLOAD of bleach dude