Live brine shrimp

[UPSCALES]

We will be getting live brine in tomorrow. I am going to try carrying it for a while and see if there is a demand. It will be about $3 a portion. Should be in after 3:00.
Travis

[inkto]

I grabbed my fish some live brine shrimp for an early xmas present yesterday and they all went nuts for it... even my Mural Goby was mid-tank scooping them up. I hope they don't find out how cheap their present was. :)

Here are a couple pics of what I haven't fed yet... about 1/2 the $3 portion:

http://mysite.verizon.net/bjmartin14/pics/100_1880w.jpg
http://mysite.verizon.net/bjmartin14/pics/100_1879w.jpg

[Nyles]

Nice quantity and size. Just watch out for stubborn fish that thanks that this is all they want to eat, but a good place to start for a live fish that wont eat. Thanks for posting!

[ringwurm]

How long can you keep them alive?

[inkto]

Following some tips from Travis I'm keeping mine in the garage in about a gallon of water and I just removed about 5% of what you see in the pics that were dead tonight. Most are still moving about slowly so it looks like they will stay alive a week or so without much intentional effort to maintain them.

[Liquid Hobby]

I was told to put an air stone in the container when I got some a while ago. I kept a bunch alive for about a week in small tupper ware container with an airstone in it. Next time I will feed them, as I been told they are not that nutritious after they are 1 day old, with empty bellies and no egg sack.

[Nyles]

all correct, you need airstone for flow to get oxygen in there, I would just throw in some flake food they will eat anything, I have them living in my refugium and skimmer sections from feeding tank.

[R-3]

Is there a certain temperature needed? I was thinking about keeping some in the garage but its pretty cold out there right now. Later Ryan

[inkto]

Colder temps will slow their bodily functions and keep them alive longer... Travis recommends it as well though he mentioned some people keep them at room temp.

[Nyles]

I grow mine out at room temp, and feed to tank and they live in there for many months, so I would expect they are very versatile. For grow out they say 1.019 salinity and my tank is at 1.025 so that can vary as well.

[Liquid Hobby]

Do you still have some live brine available?

[UPSCALES]

The live brine experiment didn't go so well. I only sold a few portions so I don't think I am going to bring them in again.
Travis