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Re: KillieTalk Digest V2 #426 (Brine shrimp hatcher)
At 11:05 AM -0400 9/30/98, Lyretail at aol_com wrote:
> The easiest way that I have found to hatch brine shrimp eggs is as follows:
>Cut the bottom off a two -- liter plastic soda bottle. Cap and invert. Fill
>half full with salt water and add eggs, about a half teaspoon. Drop an air
>line with air stone into the bottle, making sure it reaches the bottom.
>Aerate so that the eggs are constantly moving. After 24 hours or so, turn off
>the air. Let the shrimp settle for about five minutes or until they form a
>somewhat compacted mass on the bottom. Using a turkey baster, remove the
>shrimp and drain through a brine shrimp net or other fine filter. Either
>rinse and use, or dump the net into a cup of water and distribute to your fish
>using the same turkey baster or a pipette. If you didn't get all the shrimp
>out the first time, repeat the procedure. The same brine solution can be used
>for two or three hatches. Evaporation does not seem to be a problem as long
>as you don't aerate too vigorously.
>
>This is a non -- messy procedure. I suspend the hatcher by drilling a hole
>near the top of the bottle and using an S hook to secure to a nail in a beam
>or wall.
>
>Fred Sharpell
Florida Aqua Farms
(http://www.aquaculture-online.org/graphic/sponsors/aquaculture/supply.shtml) al
so sells various sizes of hatching cones, up to huge sizes for industry,
but they have hobbyist sizes too, I believe.
barry
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