Re: [Killietalk] Brine Shrimp re-visited, again, again

[john nicholson <nicholsons_discus at yahoo_com>]

I use 6 to 9 cans a year of the economy hatch from brine shrimp direct.
 I always keep them in the freezer.  Every morning and everynight I
take the can out of the freezer. open the lid in my fish room, take out
some cyst and then close the lid and put the can back in the freezer. 
i have never had a problem with the hatch rate dropping.  I did get a
can once that the BBS would hatch and then die.  I started adding a
little bleach to the water with the cyst and the problem went away.  I
think the eggs had some sort of bacteria with them.  After that can I
have not used the bleach again.

-john

--- Mike Jacobs <mjacobs2 at tampabay_rr.com> wrote:

> Ok . . . I didn't go to "GOD " to find my answers about the BBrine
> cysts and 
> evidently Jehmco is not definitive enough.  I thought Jehmco was
> highly 
> recommended by all of the killie folks but Ok they only distribute!
> 
> 
> 
> I called Aquatic Lifeline Inc. 
> (http://www.ali-artemia.com/noframes/aboutus.htm) on the shores of
> the Great 
> Salt Lake.  Their business is harvesting and selling the BBrine
> shrimp 
> cysts.  I spoke with an information person there and the response was
> this:
> 
> 
> 
> 1)      store in freezer:  they have on-going experiments with cans
> of 
> BBrine shrimp cysts that are 20 years old and they take cysts out to
> hatch 
> every year from the same bunch of cans and the hatch has not varied
> to any 
> significant degree in 20 years.
> 
> 2)      If you are a modest user . . . 1-4-5 cans a year they
> recommend that 
> you open the can (NOT FROZEN) and quickly take out what you are going
> to use 
> for a week and put the can in the freezer with the plastic top on AND
> put 
> the can in a plastic bag and tie it tightly.  Put the week supply in
> a zip 
> lock baggie of sorts and use as needed.
> 
> 3)      If you are a more frequent user (1 can a month or more) then
> you 
> want to take the can out of the freezer the NIGHT BEFORE you are
> going to 
> open it and do not open the can until the next day.  I quote the
> person: 
> "If you open the can while it is still frozen the cysts WILL form a
> bit of 
> water condensation on each egg (as Wright said) and the can will
> entirely 
> deteriorate from that time on depending on how long it takes for you
> to use 
> the entire can."
> 
> 4)      If you fall into the #3 category then you can leave the can
> out in 
> the room and there is no need to refrigerate after opening (but open
> the can 
> initially AFTER it thaws out).  You need to use the can with a bit of
> haste 
> but in a month they (Aquatic Lifeline Inc) have found very little 
> deterioration of the cysts percentage of hatch in a month (avoid
> leaving the 
> can in a fish room with a lot of humidity).
> 
> 
> 
> It would seem that Wright is more correct than wrong (I'll have to
> back and 
> read what he said again)!  These people were VERY adamant that you
> NOT open 
> a frozen can of cysts.  Even if you use a can a month as I am.  They 
> indicated that the bottom 1/3 to ¼ of my cans should experience much
> poorer 
> hatches then when opened even weeks earlier.  I have experienced this
> and 
> some members of the SKS affiliate Killie club have had discussions as
> to why 
> the bottom 1/3 or so is always worse that the top 2/3.
> 
> 
> 
> My saga of the BBrine cysts is just beginning . . . I also called the
> 
> Sanders Company as well, to get the story from the "right hand". They
> had a 
> recorder on and said they would return my call later today.  It was
> Bruce 
> Sanders that said that . . . I hope I can speak to "the man".
> 
> 
> 
> I will give you the results of that discussion as well . . . but it
> looks as 
> though Wright is right . . . I did that on purpose!
> 
> 
> 
> If you have questions you want me to ask Mr. Sanders e-mail me
> quickly and 
> it will be done!
> 
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
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John Nicholson
Caddo Mills, TX


	
		
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