Re: [Killietalk] Re: Hatching BBS eggs

["Ron Anderson" <yodeman at lycos_com>]

Hi Lee, Actually, if the BS eggs are not in a funnel type aparatus, aeration is not that important. I do exactly like many of you with inverted soda bottles and aeration to keep them from piling up in the cap. However, I know a guy that doesn't use air, and hatches them in a 1g plastic shoe box. Totally foreign concept to me, and yet there they were, a sworm of bbs congregating near a corner of the shoe box, with many more unhatched eggs spread out in the bottom of it. He said that is how he has done it all his life (he's in his 70's).  

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Ron Anderson
Warwick, RI 
alt email: ron02886 at cox_net








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DATE: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:46:53 
From: LeeH920226 at aol_com
To: killietalk at aka_org
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>The two biggest variables, besides Artemia cyst quality, are temperature and 
>aeration. If the temperature is too low they take longer or never hatch. If 
>the temperature is too high, they hatch more quickly and then die before you 
>realize it. If the aeration is too weak, they will neither hatch well not live 
>long. The other important factor is light. They hatch better with a 24 hour 
>light. I use tap water which contains both chlorine and chloramine. I add 9 
>pellets of Morton Solar Salt and if the tap water is lower TDS because of heavy 
>rains, I add some Epsom salt and baking soda (a pinch of each). All these precise 
>measurements are for a two liter plastic soda bottle. One tablespoonful of 
>brine shrimp eggs per bottle. I throw away the water after each hatch and scrub 
>the inside of the bottle. I don't know which, if any, of these are important, 
>except the temperature and aeration. Once in a while I get a bad hatch, for no 
>reason I can understand, but I suspect I may not have gotten the air tube all 
>the way to the bottom.
>
>Lee Harper
>Media, PA
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