Decapsulated Brine Shrimp Eggs

[tlindsey]

I've been feeding them to my Brown tailed Pencil fish and Rummy Nose tetra. Anyone else feed them to their small fish?

 

[Hendre]

Never actually seen this apart from forums.... I use freshly hatched brine shrimp for my fry and small fish

 

[tlindsey]

Never actually seen this apart from forums.... I use freshly hatched brine shrimp for my fry and small fish

I ordered the decapsulated brine shrimp eggs a while back. Didn't have any fish small enough to eat them until now lol. They hold the same nutritional value as the newly hatched baby brine shrimp. Some fry are only triggered by movement of the live baby brine and I understand why most prefer the method of hatching.

 

[Hendre]

That's pretty interesting. They're doing wonders for my killifish fry at the moment! Otherwise I just use powdered foods for my small fish, lots of punch in a small form.

 

[Belly up]

I have used them for years. I bought them to feed rainbows after they got big enough to eat them. I have raised many different cichlids using them and currently am using them for (do I dare admit it?) baby platies.

I would rather have the live baby brine shrimp most of the time because they don`t decay as fast but sometimes life is just too busy. I have also used flake food ground to dust in a pinch. It seems I loose more cichlid fry with it but then who wants to raise a thousand Oscars at a time?

 

[tlindsey]

My schedule for work, doing things around the house made me to decide to try the Decapsulated Brine Shrimp eggs instead of hatching Brine shrimp eggs. So I scooped a bit out of the bag and let the scoop fill with the aquarium water. After 2 minutes sucked the Decapsulated Brine shrimp eggs up in a turkey baster and the Convict fry ate them ?
Also observed them with a magnifying glass and bellies were full. Today was the first day of the fry free-swimming.
I have read that after a day live baby Brine Shrimp has lost most if not all nutritional value because they actually absorb it from their egg sac.

 

[tlindsey]

nutritional value

Correction the higher energy value is lost Lipids and Amino Acid.

 

[C. Breeze]

I feed them to my fish. I use them as fry food and I’ll sprinkle them on the surface like flakes also. Even the adult cichlids like them. I haven’t hatched a brineshrimp in 3 years.

 

[fishdance]

I decapsulate artemia cycts before hatching. Removing the hard outer shell makes it easier and faster to hatch so more energy is retained by naupili. And any unhatched cysts are still eaten.

Once you have decapsulated, you can store with a saturated saline slurry-solution which dehyrates the cyst again. So back into storage in fridge for a couple of weeks until you ready to hatch.

 

[tlindsey]

Update fry are doing well. I will start feeding fry crack basically pulverized flake food starting next week.