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[Killietalk] Sanders Brine Shrimp

Dave Koran mentioned Sanders Brine Shrimp and I recognize the name as a company that has been around for some time. It's a nice plug, but does anyone know if they have supported the AKA or any AKA-sponsored events in recent years?

From my perspective, having been involved in numerous raffle committtees for
West Coast Weekend and the ARK Cactus Killie Cook-Out, I will not promote companies unless they support the AKA. There are plenty of companies that do help finance our events through their donations and I believe we should recognize this.

Rambling from the desert where it should be in the mid-80s this weekend...

Allan from Arizona

P.S. Kent Marine, the other aquarium products company mentioned, has always been a generous sponsor.



Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:29:08 -0500
From: "Koran, David HQ02" <David_Koran at hq02.usace.army.mil>
Subject: [Killietalk] RE: Raising Brine Shrimp
To: <killietalk at aka_org>

For the mixologists out there, before the cold weather disappears you might
want to pick up one of those plastic containers of Prestone De-Icer. It is
98%+ calcium chloride with impurities of magnesium, sodium and potassium
chloride. The price is a heck of a lot cheaper than buying calcium chloride
at the pet supply when you are trying to produce hard water like what you
want to do for brine shrimp. It would also be advisable to buffer your water
with sodium bicarbonate, i.e., get the 4 pound Arm & Hammer. Another thing
you might want to seek out is a product called MAG which is flaked magnesium
chloride sold as safe for plants and concrete also for de-icing this time of
year. I don't know if it is sold in less than 80 pound bags, however. It
will also be much cheaper than Epsom salts and you don't introduce lots of
sulphur into the mix. Also, look for Cargill granular feed salt at the feed
& grain if you are near somewhere where they raise a lot of horses and you
are not too urban-ly bound.

The magnesium chloride is extremely hydroscopic so when you remove some from
the bag seal the remainder good or transfer the remainder to sealed
containers. For my hard water mix I make up a stock solution containing the
calcium, magnesium and potassium chlorides (get this from salt substitutes)
and you can probably add the sodium chloride as well. Don't add carbonate to
your stock solution or you will get a precipitate that you won't be able to
dissolve again.

If you check out the Sanders Brine Shrimp website, they (as well as others)
sell spurlina powder, add an amount of this to your water to inoculate the
tank for algae growth. There is also a product called Micro-Vert from Kent
Marine which can also be used as feed. I am not raising shrimp but I am
doing daphnia. I culture algae separate and add this to the daphnia tanks as
a weekly water change.

Dave Koran



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