CaptainK Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 Is anyone raising brine shrimp to feed their fish? I'm not raising any fry but I wanted to start feeding my adult fish some live food. I know the hatching kits are intended just to hatch brine shrimp but I would like to raise them to adult size. Any tips or advice would help. I currently have a 2 liter bottle full of hatched brine shrimp. Should I move them to a larger holding tank to raise them or just feed them to my fish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 The problem with brine shrimp is that they have almost no nutritional value, except when they're newly hatched, that's why people raise other foods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake112005 Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 However, you can add nutritional value to them by gut loading your brine with foods high in nutritional value. If they are gut loaded then these nutrients will transfer to your fish. Sent from my 831C using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainK Posted May 27, 2014 Author Share Posted May 27, 2014 So what would you recommend feeding them? I assume you would have to transfer hatched brine shrimp to a larger container or at least add new saltwater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemoon Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 (edited) when training my mandarin i started with live brine i got from aquatek and soaked them in zoe vitamin supplement 30 minutes before feeding. he munched them up and i think if you supplement them with enough vitamins, or gut load like jake said, the fish will get enough nutrients as long as you change up the diet every once and a while. you'll definitely want to move them to a 5g tank, or bucket with an airstone. As far as feeding them..I've heard people feeding all sorts of random people food. if your serious about it give the about saltwater article a read http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/diyfeedersfoods/a/aabrineshrimpgr.htm has some really informative stuff, but you could easily modify their method. hope this helps. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited May 27, 2014 by Bluemoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mako Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 Youtube has videos raising brine to adult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 For some reason I remember using yeast to feed them into adulthood but that was quite a long time ago. I'm sure something came by now that is much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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