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Re: No More SF shrimp?
Wright and Robert--
I stand corrected. Thanks for the information.
Catherine
I think
> brine shrimp eggs were definitely the thing that made the serious home
> hobbyist we love possible. Before their introduction, the breeding of
> egglayers was a seasonal affair built around the blooming/collecting of
> infusoria/rotifer populations in natural ponds near large eastern cities.
> Most of the egglayers available in this country before WW II were wild
> imports or were raised in Germany and sold by Aquarium Hamburg > I
would argue that the brine shrimp egg is largely responsible for
> helping turn the keeping of "toy" tropicals from a rich man's past time,
as
> it was in the 30's, into the working class/middle class hobby it became
after
> Ww II. Like air shipments, brine shrimp made it possible to raise lots of
> inexpensive fish and the hobby exploded. The 1950's saw the rise of
thousands
> of little backyard hatchies raising and selling fish on their local market
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