[Killietalk] Re: Problem hatching brine shrimp eggs

[Ken Simolo <Simolo at chem_chem.rochester.edu>]

My guess is that, after using the water for several hatches, the bbs 
die after hatching due to ammonia, bacteria, etc..  My bbs live for 
several days without feeding if I can not collect them for some 
reason but I always use fresh hatching water (salt is cheap). 
Obviously, their nutritional value to fish is greatly diminished at 
that point.

Ken Simolo

> Many of us reuse the saline hatching solution over and over for 
> several hatches....
> I am forced to remake the salt solution because the old solution 
> causes the eggs to hatch in less than 24 hours and when I turn off 
> the air to let the BBS settle a large number of the shrimps are 
> dead. They have hatched hours earlier and have died. I don't have a 
> cause as to why they are dead unless it is due to the consumption of 
> their nutritional package and they have nothing to eat. But, dead 
> none the less.
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