Re: [Killietalk] RE: Hatching brine shrimp

[Duane Wake <dwake at iopener_net>]

Mark,

Go to Brine Shrimp Direct, they have complete instructions for hatching their product.     Duane



Mark Pearlscott wrote:
 > 
 > Edd,
 > 
 > It is interesting that you heat by the light bulb (80DF, 24hr hatch
 > rate), as I know many people do.  This has me thinking about temp and
 > hatching times.  I decided to do a water bath and have my 2 Liter
 > hatchers in that to get a controlled hatch.  Now here is the interesting
 > part.  When I set it to 80DF (measured by a thermometer), and ran my
 > eggs for 24 hours, I did not get a good hatch (salinity was nice and
 > high... maybe too high?).  I know these eggs hatch at a decent
 > percentage (90% quoted, NABS eggs), as I previously ran them for a
 > longer period (at a lower temp and lower salinity) and got a good hatch.
 > So my temperature/timing doesn't seem to be right for my situation.
 > 
 > Along those lines, I was at a pet store today (Blue Sierra in Issaquah,
 > WA) (I might have butchered the spelling of the place), and read on the
 > brine shrimp packages they sold to run the temp between 85-90DF to get a
 > 24 hour hatch.  I bought a brine shrimp net while there (nice to support
 > good some-what local stores ;)), and on its packaging it said to run the
 > temp at 80DF to get a 36 hour hatch.  So I'm wondering how some people
 > run the temp at 80DF and getting good 24 hour hatches.  This doesn't
 > seem to be my experience so far.  I'm going to try upping my temp to
 > about 88DF to see if I can shorten the hatch time down to 24 hours.  The
 > worst thing that can happen is that they all hatch too early or I boil
 > the little blokes.  Maybe it will do the trick and then I'll be all set.
 > 
 > Mark
 > 
 > 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: killietalk-bounces at aka_org [mailto:killietalk-bounces at aka_org] On
 > Behalf Of Kray, Edd
 > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 8:55 AM
 > To: killifish discussion list
 > Subject: RE: [Killietalk] RE: Hatching brine shrimp
 > 
 > My brine shrimp light bulb is a 60 watter maintained about 8 inches from
 > the hatcher. This keeps my water temp around 80 and gives me a nice 24
 > hour hatching period, so I can harvest every evening around 7PM from the
 > same hatcher every day.
 > 
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