For anyone watching this, I would definitely recommend separating the brine shrimp and eggs, and not feeding it with the salt water that came from the hatch. Not only is it salt water which could harm any plants that you have, but it includes all of the waste from the brine shrimp hatching and molting. It matters. I separate my brine shrimp with a sieve and put them into a small container with seasoned water from one of my fish tanks, and freeze whatever I have left over in mini ice cube trays so they're always available and I don't have to hatch every day. The reality is that frozen BBS and live BBS, from a nutritional perspective, are identical.
I used to feed without screening and with salt water. Found Cory fry losses were higher which I assumed was salt intolerance. Have definitely had higher mortality rates when there’s a lot of unhatched cysts in the water. Now I use a Ziess seive and rinse well and have way better survival rates. Potentially some fish such as guppy’s and rainbows may do better with the added saltwater. Just my experience With them. Also I hatch in hot water cupboard which gives very high hatch rate at 36hours.
Does darkness hurt the hatch ? My room is dark at night as it's in my bedroom so for 6/8 hours it's completely dark. Do I need a small light near by during the 24 hrs or just during the day with ambient light until collecting? Thanks
Another Improvement you can do: If your water is very soft, then add baking soda or other KH/pH stabilizers. The metabolism of the brine shrimp can cause a pH drop, which they dont like. Also: Look which specie of brine shrimp you got. There are different species with different requirements of salt concentration.
You said that adding the salt and shells don’t matter. I would assume that is dependent on the frequency you add it to the tank. How often you feed the same tank?
So Nick, way back when in your early iterations of the hatcheries, you were using non-iodized table salt. Do you find the pool salt works better? Thanks, Mate! ~Ron
The only difference is that I only let the first part of the water that looks dark brown go down the drain and those are the shells. Everything that comes out after that is pure baby brine shrimp.
i found the red tin eggs so much better than the ones from san fran. the shells don't sink. i get an amazingly clean hatch in both coke bottle and ziss hatchery
Where do you get your brianshrimp eggs from ??? I have pygmy cory fry i want to feed!! Can anyone help me. I am in Sydney and i don’t know where to get the eggs. 😢
@Fish-Addict Many of us like the metric system over in the US, the younger the generation, the higher % of us want the switch. It's just hard to get used to water sizes bc the only liters we see are sugary soda drinks. Everything else is sold in weird US measurements that no one understands.
*HELP* I'm new since march of last year to keeping betta,corydoras tetras and assassin snails 😀So ive been hatching brine shrimp easily but i can never get them past 3 days so i can feed them to my bettas😟PLEASE ive tried everything and still no joy😟
Cardinals. Nick's prices aren't the cheapest, but his fish are quality. I went to another store at the weekend that had neons for $1.60 but a lot of the fish in that store looked poorly. You get what you pay for (but yes a lot of fish are pricey here frustratingly).
They're not exactly the same thing as Sea-Monkeys. They are very similar. Sea-Monkeys have been cross bred to be bigger, stronger, and more hearty. They're basically hybrids between brine shrimp and something else. Maybe they were just line-bred for specific traits. But, either way, there is a difference.
I have zero knowledge and experience with brine shrimp, and was hoping that this video would provide me with a detailed primer on what is brine shrimp and the possible equipment we could use to produce them. Can you please provide us with an idiot's guide to brine shrimp without assumptions that we already know what you are talking about?
Brine shrimp are tiny crustaceans that are found in higher salinity waters. The saltiness (aka specific gravity)is usually 0.025 . The dried eggs can be kept refrigerated for more than a year. To hatch the eggs you will need a specific gravity tester ( a good fish store should carry these), clean chlorine free water, salt like sea salt or rock salt, aeration of course and a vessel to hatch the eggs in. This vessel ideally should taper towards the base. This is primarily to encourage better water movement and hence oxygen levels in the hatcher. I first started with inverted 2 litre plastic soda bottles with the cap still on of course. I now use triangular 3 gallon glass hatchers. Aeration should be sufficient to disturb the entire surface of what ever you decide to use as a hatcher. Set it up in the morning...add the salt water (0.025 specific gravity S.G.) and eggs. One rounded teaspoon ( not heaping ) of eggs per gallon. Turn on the aeration and observe if the eggs are moving around sufficiently. After several minutes, eggs will build up on the glass just above the water surface. Simply use a plastic spoon to scrape them back into the water. You'll have to do this once or twice during the hatching period. The best yield comes after 48 hours. So that means if you want to feed your fish brine shrimp daily, you'll need to set up a second hatcher 24 hours after the first one. The next morning in other words. Hope this helps you.
When ready to harvest the hatcher, turn off aeration and let rest for 5 minutes or so. The brine shrimp will settle depending on the light situation, at the bottom, at the top or both. I only depend on natural morning light so my baby brine usually settle at the top. I use a clear hard plastic tube stuck into some air line to syphon the hatched shrimp.
My hatcher gives a yield of 95% or higher hatch rate. In actual harvested volume, that means every teaspoon of eggs should yield 2 - 2.25 teaspoons of baby shrimp as bbs at 48 hrs are a bit more than twice the size of the egg. A specific gravity of 0.025 is advisable using a density of no greater than 1 rounded ( not heaping ) teaspoon of eggs per gallon ( British gallon not U.S gallon ) of solution.
Great video, Music edit on this one was a bit off.
Music felt a bit overly dramatic, but great informative video!
music is kinda off in every moment it doesn't fit his videos, great video btw
For anyone watching this, I would definitely recommend separating the brine shrimp and eggs, and not feeding it with the salt water that came from the hatch. Not only is it salt water which could harm any plants that you have, but it includes all of the waste from the brine shrimp hatching and molting. It matters.
I separate my brine shrimp with a sieve and put them into a small container with seasoned water from one of my fish tanks, and freeze whatever I have left over in mini ice cube trays so they're always available and I don't have to hatch every day. The reality is that frozen BBS and live BBS, from a nutritional perspective, are identical.
What diameter are the sieve holes? How do you do it?
@@Kaiser-h5sjust do a search for brine shrimp net or brine shrimp sieve as many places sell premade screens.
@@Kaiser-h5s I use an 80. I also have a 200 but that catches the molts so i don't use it
Wow! This is so timely!
Music was hilarious!
Christmas music? Funny. Thank you, good video.
I used to feed without screening and with salt water. Found Cory fry losses were higher which I assumed was salt intolerance. Have definitely had higher mortality rates when there’s a lot of unhatched cysts in the water. Now I use a Ziess seive and rinse well and have way better survival rates. Potentially some fish such as guppy’s and rainbows may do better with the added saltwater.
Just my experience
With them.
Also I hatch in hot water cupboard which gives very high hatch rate at 36hours.
music was bit loud
Looks like forbidden coffee
Does darkness hurt the hatch ? My room is dark at night as it's in my bedroom so for 6/8 hours it's completely dark. Do I need a small light near by during the 24 hrs or just during the day with ambient light until collecting? Thanks
Helps a lot
Another Improvement you can do: If your water is very soft, then add baking soda or other KH/pH stabilizers. The metabolism of the brine shrimp can cause a pH drop, which they dont like.
Also: Look which specie of brine shrimp you got. There are different species with different requirements of salt concentration.
Nice upgrade in production quality
I love my brine shrimp hatchery
Why is your music so loud while you're talking?
I think he was trying to do the transition thing where they gradually bring the music back to signal the end of the video but yea, a bit too loud
@JanineDonnellTake your meds
I like to screen out the capsules as they can stick to your arm like simulated duckweed, but smaller.
Just harvested mine yesterday and feeding my baby Betta fish
visuals were cool but the music was a little too much
Music is just fine.
Do you have to keep the light on during the 36 hours or can it be dark during the night? TIA
Am I going crazy or is Auld Lang Syne playing at the end of the video?
It is indeed.
Do you harvest your own eggs for hatching?
You said that adding the salt and shells don’t matter. I would assume that is dependent on the frequency you add it to the tank. How often you feed the same tank?
I found about 6 platy fry in my tank. I managed to catch 3 of them into a net box in the tank so that they wont be eaten by the adults.
How and were can I buy brine shrimp eggs to hatch
Very nice! I wish I had enough fish to make a hatchery viable.
You can do it without a problem on a smaller scale and freeze what is left, then simply throw the cubes into the aquarium.
@@fedef-ye5hmThanks. I did a ton of research after this video and discovered several easy DIY systems that are easy to scale.
Any tips on how to stop eggs from sticking around the edge just above the water level? Air flow doesn’t seem to make a difference
So Nick, way back when in your early iterations of the hatcheries, you were using non-iodized table salt. Do you find the pool salt works better? Thanks, Mate! ~Ron
Have you ever considered decapsulating your cysts? They hatch much faster, without the mess of the outer shell
The only difference is that I only let the first part of the water that looks dark brown go down the drain and those are the shells. Everything that comes out after that is pure baby brine shrimp.
Its winter time i cannot hatch cannt wait until summer feed my pond koi and old fish 😢😢😢😢
i found the red tin eggs so much better than the ones from san fran. the shells don't sink. i get an amazingly clean hatch in both coke bottle and ziss hatchery
so that is how you ozzies make the Foster's
Where do you get your brianshrimp eggs from ??? I have pygmy cory fry i want to feed!! Can anyone help me. I am in Sydney and i don’t know where to get the eggs. 😢
thanks you!
Magnific
Is 1 gallon only 2 liters in Australia?
1 gallon is 3.785 liters. He's just guessing bc they don't use American measurements in Australia.
@@wheelbite9 yes, we use the metric system....like normal people 🙈
@Fish-Addict Many of us like the metric system over in the US, the younger the generation, the higher % of us want the switch. It's just hard to get used to water sizes bc the only liters we see are sugary soda drinks. Everything else is sold in weird US measurements that no one understands.
Great video, music volume was shocking. Need to work on that in future
*HELP* I'm new since march of last year to keeping betta,corydoras tetras and assassin snails 😀So ive been hatching brine shrimp easily but i can never get them past 3 days so i can feed them to my bettas😟PLEASE ive tried everything and still no joy😟
0:28 Damn 10 neons for 80 aus?
Cardinals. Nick's prices aren't the cheapest, but his fish are quality. I went to another store at the weekend that had neons for $1.60 but a lot of the fish in that store looked poorly. You get what you pay for (but yes a lot of fish are pricey here frustratingly).
I wonder how often he forgets which hatchery to harvest first? He must mark the containers somehow.
Forbidden smoothie
Nah, better as ramen broth.
Weird… the music wasn’t loud for me. Normally I notice things like that. Wonder if it has to do with the speakers people used?
I can pay attention without the music just fine man
They're not exactly the same thing as Sea-Monkeys. They are very similar. Sea-Monkeys have been cross bred to be bigger, stronger, and more hearty. They're basically hybrids between brine shrimp and something else. Maybe they were just line-bred for specific traits. But, either way, there is a difference.
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You have beautiful big brown eyes! 😊
Good video but yeah music was too much bro
Can everyone calm down about the music 🤦🏻♂️
Yeah it’s a bit much in this video but you can’t have everything and editing isn’t easy.
camera lense on the drainer next to the sink is giving me anxiety
Sea Monkeys was such a scam hahaha. They were just Glorified BBS.
IMO Music should be a filler not a distraction
Hatching is easy. I'd rather learn how to grow them so they can feed larger fish, not babies.
I have zero knowledge and experience with brine shrimp, and was hoping that this video would provide me with a detailed primer on what is brine shrimp and the possible equipment we could use to produce them. Can you please provide us with an idiot's guide to brine shrimp without assumptions that we already know what you are talking about?
Brine shrimp are tiny crustaceans that are found in higher salinity waters. The saltiness (aka specific gravity)is usually 0.025 .
The dried eggs can be kept refrigerated for more than a year.
To hatch the eggs you will need a specific gravity tester ( a good fish store should carry these), clean chlorine free water, salt like sea salt or rock salt, aeration of course and a vessel to hatch the eggs in.
This vessel ideally should taper towards the base. This is primarily to encourage better water movement and hence oxygen levels in the hatcher.
I first started with inverted 2 litre plastic soda bottles with the cap still on of course. I now use triangular 3 gallon glass hatchers.
Aeration should be sufficient to disturb the entire surface of what ever you decide to use as a hatcher.
Set it up in the morning...add the salt water (0.025 specific gravity S.G.) and eggs. One rounded teaspoon ( not heaping ) of eggs per gallon. Turn on the aeration and observe if the eggs are moving around sufficiently.
After several minutes, eggs will build up on the glass just above the water surface. Simply use a plastic spoon to scrape them back into the water. You'll have to do this once or twice during the hatching period.
The best yield comes after 48 hours. So that means if you want to feed your fish brine shrimp daily, you'll need to set up a second hatcher 24 hours after the first one. The next morning in other words.
Hope this helps you.
When ready to harvest the hatcher, turn off aeration and let rest for 5 minutes or so. The brine shrimp will settle depending on the light situation, at the bottom, at the top or both. I only depend on natural morning light so my baby brine usually settle at the top. I use a clear hard plastic tube stuck into some air line to syphon the hatched shrimp.
@@michaela-be4le Thanks for taking the time to articulate this. Much appreciated.
Music 😢way to loud
My hatcher gives a yield of 95% or higher hatch rate.
In actual harvested volume, that means every teaspoon of eggs should yield 2 - 2.25 teaspoons of baby shrimp as bbs at 48 hrs are a bit more than twice the size of the egg.
A specific gravity of 0.025 is advisable using a density of no greater than 1 rounded ( not heaping ) teaspoon of eggs per gallon ( British gallon not U.S gallon ) of solution.
Fire that editor, music and editing in this video was AWFUL 🤮
I love your videos, but your music interfered so much in this one.
Music is annoyingly loud
Great video, music is too much, just like listening to you talk.
Yeah- That music - Big NO!
remove the music
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