Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!decwrl!gringort
From: gringort@decwrl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Growing Brine Shrimp to Adulthood
Message-ID: <249@bacchus.DEC.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 88 22:35:07 GMT
References: <8072@reed.UUCP> <2200@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: gringort@decwrl.UUCP (Joel Gringorten)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <2200@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) 
writes:
>	[concerning brine shrimp]
>Besides, you can buy 1000's of the buggers for $0.79, so why bother ?
>

Brine shrimp in the SF Bay area has become incredibly difficult to find
lately.  What little information I've been able to gather is that some
goverment body has decreed that removing brine shrimp from the ocean (bay?)
could be having environmental impact.  Based on this, they revoked the
local suppliers permit for 90% of his shrimp gathering sites.

Can anybody add-to/substantiate/deny any of this?  

Can anybody suggest an alternate easily obtainable food source for picky
eaters?  In particular I have a new juneville Emperator Angel that seems
to want only live brine shrimp.  (I understand that they eat live coral
polyps in the wild, but we won't go into that).
-- 
                          -joel