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082399 - ****Special note****Brine Shrimp Hatching bottle cut from a 24 oz Gatorade Bottle... works great!

Brine Shrimp Hatching Jar - A Gatorade™, 24 OZ Size, with the twist style top makes an excellent Brine Shrimp Hatching Bottle. Cut the bottom off about 1/2 inch, make a stand to support the bottle upside down with the top on and closed. Give the stand enough clearance so a small bowl/tupperware can be place beneath the inverted bottle...place a rigid tubing in the inverted bottle so the wand goes into the bottom hole of the cap (this will prevent eggs gathering there.) Add Salt water to fill below the rim, turn air on so it churns, but not to high...and add up to 1/2 teaspoon of BS cysts...They will hatch in 24 hours. Then, when ready to get BS nauplii, remove air wand, and allow to settle for about 5 - 8 minutes. The hatched nauplii will go to the bottom, and hatched eggs will go to the top. Then place collecting bowl below bottle nozzle and turn nozzle of bottle slowly. The hatched nauplii will pour out into the bowl, then shut the nozzle just before the hatched eggs get there. VIOLA! A nicely separated hatch of BS nauplii, ready to feed! yes, these are Brine Shrimp, hard to tell eh?

Brine Shrimp Hatching Procedures

    Materials

  1. Clean 1 gallon Jar.
  2. 3/16" Rigid air tube long enough to extend from bottom of jar to beyond the jar top several inches.
  3. Salt Water at 1.016 - 1.025 specific gravity. (I like around 1.018.)
  4. light (24 hours, but keep water temp below 800 and above 700)
  5. 1 teaspoon or less Brine Shrimp cysts per gallon
  6. 100 micron screen sieve.
  7. 1/4" diameter, 3 ft long siphone tube.
    I use gallon glass jars to hatch brine shrimp cysts. I like them because they are clear and that helps in collecting them after hatch. We hatch brine shrimp morning and night.

    Procedure for hatching

  8. Fill clean jug with salt water.
  9. Put in rigid tubing and attach to air - medium to high bubble rate for a good churn.
  10. Add 1 teaspoon of BS cysts to water.
  11. Turn on light if you haven't already done so.
  12. Wait 24 hours.
    After 24 hours, the color of the hatching water should turn a slight orange which means there are little BS nauplii swimming around with the cysts. So, take the jar off air, and settle it near a sink for about 5-10 minutes. The hatched cysts will float to the top, the brine shrimp nauplii will swim in the middle/top, and the unhatched cysts will float to the bottom.

    Procedure for collecting

  13. Taking 1/4" siphon tube in hand, blow softly on the top of the hatching jar to spread the cysts.
  14. Insert the siphon and draw the culture water through the other end of the siphon tube to start a siphon. Siphon the water into the 100 micron sieve, allowing the water to escape down the sink drain.
  15. Keep the culture end of the siphon tube below the surface of the hatching water, and avoid siphoning the floating hatched cysts, while moving the end deeper into the hatching jar.
  16. Also, avoid going to deep into the hatching jar with the siphon tube, to prevent picking up the unhatched cysts as well.
  17. When the majority of the hatching water has been siphoned off, then pull the siphon tube out of the hatching jar quickly to break the siphon.
  18. Rinse the nauplii in the 100 micron sieve, then pour them into a small container for you to feed or to move to an aquarium to grow out.
These guys are small 200 microns or so.
I use a spray bottle to rinse them out, and a very dense BS net to collect them. I also use a 100 micron sieve. If I am going to growout the BS nauplii, I use a small bowl and fill it with salt water, then I place the sieve in this bowl. As I siphon, the water goes through the sieve, fills the bowl, and then over the edge of the bowl into the sink. This keeps the nauplii from being caught on the sieve screen, preventing some damage to the nauplii when collecting them. If, by chance, you let the nauplii settle too long, they will all be on the bottom of the hatching jar. They will die if you let them sit over several hours. But if you siphon them off within approximately a two hour period, place them in a fresh container,add new salt water, and aeriate them, they will revive (if they haven't sat too long.) I've been using these methods for almost 14 years, and I find the procedures to work extremely well. Good luck and Happy Hatching!

Note on nutrition and keeping nauplii:

I recommend feeding the nauplii right away with a suitable food such as rotirich, algae, or something similar, as this keeps them alive for a much longer period (up to adulthood), and increases their nutritional value. Although, they can be refridgerated, and used the next day, if so desired (they will slowly loose nutritional value.) After 48 hours in the fridge, they will start to decompose... chuck em.

GROWING OUT BRINE SHRIMP TO GET ADULTS :)

  • Hatch about 1/2 tsp of brine shrimp cysts.
  • Harvest your brine shrimp nauplii and place them in a 10 gallon tank with moderate air through a rigid tube and water at sp 1.020 - 1.023.
  • Feed them daily either plankton feed or a suitable small particulate feed (there are several).
  • If you have to change the water, use a bucket, put fresh Salt water in the bottom about 1/2 inch, and siphon the tank water into a sieve you hold inside the bucket. Hold the bottom of the sieve (screen area) in the water, and position the output of the siphon against the sieve side at an angle so that it swirls the water. Raise the sieve with the rising water level. Then put the Brine shrimp caught in the sieve back into the 10 gallon tank, and fill the 10 gallon with new salt water.

Adults will show up in about 10 days.

Full sized adults take about a month.

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