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anyone know what to feed a billon brine shrimp well just looks like a billon theres a bunch
I bought one of those hatcheries a while back because it just looked interesting and not bad priced
I followed instructions and wow it worked great
just what I needed a billon sea monkeys
I'm trying a little experiment I set up a 5 gal brackish tank a couple weeks ago with constant light and plants java moss and some floating plant unknown but seems to do well with the salt in a bare bottom tank ,
my question is what all can you feed them ?
I know of using yeast and water solution I just don't know the amount of yeast to use in it ?
by setting the tank up a while back I'm hoping it can almost be self contained
on the weekly water changes would it help to use water out of my brackish tank for them ?

yeast?

Hmmm I would be interested in the answer myself. I only raise BS for a food for fry and small fish. Never really thought about raising them just themselves.

Would food for sea anemenias work? something like photo plankton?

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A quick net search came up with this article

I would think that if the eventual aim is to feed the shrimp to your fish it would be worthwhile gut-loading the shrimp with foods that have some additional nutritional value like spirulina powder or something like that.

Looking forward to hearing how this experiment turns out for you.

G_T

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

cool site gone_troppo big help
this should be interesting I know there a trip to watch so far

brine shrimp done fine 1st day everything looked fine till 2nd day some were dead 3rd day only few left who knows why ,,i am going for a retry first part of May when i get a better test kit other than those dip sticks that are a waste of paper and time
at least the guppies got a good feed outta them after they hatched
next try i'll be better prepaired