Brine shrimp hatchery salt

[Jody]

Hi

I am soon setting up a Baby brine shrimp hatchery , I have lots of salt for a water softener well this work. This is the stuff i have at home now

http://www.mta.ca/administration/facilities/safety/msds/Heating%20Plant,%20Electrical,%20Hvac,%20plumbing/Windsor%20System%20Saver%20salt-%20%20Discontinued%20-%20No%20New%20MSDS%20-%201997.pdf

If not well Sea salt from the supermarket work

Thanks all

 

[fshfanatic]

Brine shrimp are basically marine invertebrates. Adding "Sea Salt" or salt for your water softener will not get you a marine environment. It will just get you "salty water". Now, you might have a level of success using those, but I wouldn't. You will get optimum results using a marine salt mix. Any will work better than the salts you listed and in reality it isnt that costy.

 

[dbosman]

Yes, no, and maybe. Keeping in mind that hatching brine shrimp is a royal pain until it starts working for - YOU. Everyone has trouble at first.

Any source of sodium chloride will work - but...
You should add some epsom salt and a bit of baking soda. I'm working from memory here, on a sinus headache day, so two level table spoons of salt, plus half a teaspoon of Epsom salt and half a teaspoon of baking soda comes to mind.

Two slightly heaping table spoons of marine salt mix to a cut down two liter soda bottle works well for most people.

 

[Enkay]

I do brine shrimp all the time for my Angel fry. Its very simple. Take some seriously warm water, uniodized salt and a pinch of baking soda. Make sure you get grade A good quality eggs. And put in a bubbler.

In 24 hours you will have it hatched. Thats all there is to it.

I get my artemia eggs from Angels Plus and have had great results.

 

[Fishfriend1]

Slightly OT, but how could you breed them for a steady supply of Brine Shrimp?

Good Luck to the OP.

 

[dbosman]

Three 2 liter hatcheries will provide all the brine shrimp you probably need.
If you need more, up the size of the hatching containers to pickle jars.

 

[digitalphrage]

If you're doing what I'm doing, which is hatching baby brine shrimp from eggs for the sole purpose of feeding those baby brine shrimp to your fish, disregard the need for special types of salt or salt mixtures -- it's all unnecessary.

Yes, you can use table salt. Even iodized table salt. I have both types and I see no difference in hatching rate. I do typically add a small amount of baking soda to ensure that the pH is high enough (and stays high) since I have read that the BBS need alkaline conditions in order to exit the cyst. But either way, I've kept BBS alive for several weeks using just table salt.

If you're planning to grow these guys to adulthood and keep a steady supply going (without the need to keep buying eggs) then obviously I would invest in the correct types of salt, but again, if you're just hatching them out to feed to your fish, just get the cheapest salt you can find.

 

[Jody]

started my hatchery last night with water softener salt at a SG 1.019 and a pinch of baking soda , i well let you know how it turns out

 

[jetajockey]

You can use straight baking soda also, no salt at all.

 

[sideshow201]

Wow I have hatched BBS for twenty years and have never heard of anyone using baking soda with the salt! It makes sense to me and also makes me happy that no one needs to use it around here due to our local water source. Lake Michigan good enough for African Cichlids and apparently BBS.

Thanks guys I learned something new tonight.