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Re: Brine Troubles
Cookie0175 at aol_com wrote:
>
> Ok so I want to make sure I can hatch the brine shrimp before I
> attempt to
> hatch fry and I'm not too sure how well it's going. I had a kit
> kicking
> around the house so I set it up late tues. night (i think, can't
> remember if
> it was wed. night) and some of the eggs came up and were floating in
> the
> water so I know they were eggs. I kept checking it and there were
> still
> things floating and it wasn't until tonight that I could barely tell
> that
> they were moving and live shrimp. So I don't know when they hatched
> and I
> remember one of the emails saying you had to feed the frye within a
> certain
> number of hours of the shrimp hatching or they were too big. My
> problem is
> being able to tell when they are shrimp and not eggs. The straining
> them
> through a cloth will be my second problem. Do you then just dip the
> cloth in
> the water with the frye?
>
> Thank You for any help I know it must be annoying to have such basic
> questions but i'll catch up to some of you. : ) Thanks Colleen
>
You should be able to see the newly hatched brine shrimp swimming at the
bottom of your container. very orange in color. They will also go
towards any light source that you can provide. This makes easier to
syphon them off. After you remove the air stone from your hatching
container let it sit for a few minutes. This will allow the eggs and
newly hatched seperate. I use a piece of air hose to syphon off the
shrimp into a quart jar. After I have syphoned off the amount I need I
pour the quart jar back into the hatching container thru a brine shrimp
net. This leaves all of the brine shrimp in the net. I then reverse the
net into a small container of water which washes all of the shrimp in to
the container. Thenn simply feed from the small container using a
eyedropper. Good Luck,
George
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