How do I feed brine fish eggs?

Question

My brine fish eggs are growing, and they should be more bigger by tomorrow. But I don't know how I should feed them. This one book says to take an eyedropper to take up shrimp and put them in a dish of fresh brine shrimp eggs, with some yeast. But I have this box that is a shrimpery and it says for me to feed my baby fish from the fresh water in the collection boottle. I don't understand that.

Answer 1

When the brine shrimp hatch. you collect them with something (eyedropper, turkey baster, etc) and put them in your fish tank.

If you are feeding fry, you'll want to rinse them with tapwater to take care of any bacteria on the shrimp. This isn't necessary for larger fish, but it can be the difference between having healthy fry and ones that just never seem to do well.

With the San Francisco Bay little black hatcher box with the collection vial that sits on top, you can take the vial off and dump that directly into your fish tank when it gets full of brine shrimp. I've found that its easier for my fish to find the shrimp in their tank if I dump the collection vial full of shrimp into a brine shrimp net (they're white, mine has a blue handle) and then suck up just the shrimp with an eyedropper. The fish soon learn that the eyedropper means food.

If you want to grow the brine shrimp, then you'll need to put them in a tank with fresh brine and some yeast for the shrimp to eat. This can turn messy and stinky. I've found that spirulina powder is a much better food for brine shrimp. It doesn't foul the water. The benefits to having your own brine shrimp farm is that your bigger fish will appreciate the bigger shrimp, and that they'll start producing babies in there, making a never-ending supply.

Answer 2

The brine shrimp hatchery has the collection bottle in it. You put freshwater in the bottle and then make sure that the bottle is lit up.

The brine are attracted to the light and will enter the freshwater area. You then empty that into your tank.

Essentially this just keeps you from adding saltwater to your tank.