How much salt do Brine Shrimp need???

Question

Can somebody tell me good info on Brine Shrimp and how to raise them and to get the eggs to hatch??? And how much salt do they need???

Answer 1

Generally a heaping teaspoon of sea salt per quart, or level teaspoon per liter. Ordinary table salt will do as long as it is NON-IODIZED. The iodine in iodized salt will kill the shrimp.

Some people use as much as a level tablespoon of salt. Brine shrimp live in landlocked salty basins and the salt level rises and falls with seasonal evaporation, so the exact level of salinity is not critical.

Also, you can feed them with ordinary baking yeast. They like to eat algae. After adding salt to water, put in some lawn clippings.... grass... and wait for algae to form. Then take out the grass and put in some shrimp eggs. They like it about 78 degrees and an air bubbler tube is beneficial as well.

Answer 2

Hatching Brine Shrimp

Answer 3

Here's the joke of this, go buy a packet of sea monkeys and it'll give you all the info you need. Some packaging genius in the 1960s started selling brine shrimp eggs in the back of comic books. Only he called them "sea monkeys" and made the kids believe they'd be raising up a family of trainable sea apes. The ads were hilarious. In fact, I just checked. The same illustrations are now online and they're still selling brine shrimp as "sea monkeys"

http://www.sea-monkeys.com/

Answer 4

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Brine shrimp hatch best in full salt water, so use marine salt at 1/2 cup per gallon.

Answer 5

You wasted 15 points on a question you didn't even think out clearly??? If you put the shrimp in your regular aquarium, the fish will EAT them. That means they die, unless you are going to dedicate yet another tank to brine shrimp. What exactly do you mean?

Answer 6

I think u got the wrong category for your question

Answer 7

you should put this question with the food section