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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Growing Brine Shrimp to Adulthood
Summary: Why ?
Message-ID: <2200@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 88 04:09:22 GMT
References: <8072@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <8072@reed.UUCP> sabol@reed.UUCP (Bryan Sabol) writes:
>Has anyone been successful in growing brine shrimp to adulthood? From
>what I've seen, most people feed them to their fish right after they
>'hatch', but I'd rather see if I could continue their growth until
>they're fully adults.
>	I've talked to some people here in the Pac. NW, but all have
>said that trying to grow them that long is more of a pain than the final
>outcome. Anyone have any relatively easy solutions?

I've done it, but the yields are terrible. Brine shrimp need two
things: cool water, and plenty of oxygen in that cool water. So start
out with a kids wading pool filled with 55 degree water.

Now throw in a cupfull of baby brine shrimp.  They easy either
"green soup" (suspended algae) or zooplankton. Good luck growing
either.

The disadvantage is that while baby brine shrimp are an excellent
source of nutrition, the adults are mostly husk and shell and
are a relativly poor source of nutrition.

Besides, you can buy 1000's of the buggers for $0.79, so why bother ?


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