Good cheap brine shrimp hatchery kits

[bloodlucky]

Hey I'm looking for some cheap brine shrimp hatchery kits, hopefully one I can buy online without assembling myself. Something small I can fit on my desk, maximum 1 gal of space, and just enough for the shrimp to reproduce and keep a consistent line of live treats going for my blood parrots. I saw online a cool kit you can buy where you screw on a coke bottle over a base with a bubbler. Something like that


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[duanes]

I use these from brineshrimpdirect.com, they are about 3" tall, and the size of a pie plate. No aeration needed, no heater, I just add the eggs and within about 24 - 36 hours, there are newly hatched artemia.

 

[bloodlucky]

I use these from brineshrimpdirect.com, they are about 3" tall, and the size of a pie plate. No aeration needed, no heater, I just add the eggs and within about 24 - 36 hours, there are newly hatched artemia.

Interesting, sort of like the whole SeaMonkey deal. Anyway what do you feed them, and do you do anything extra to get them to breed?


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[joe jaskot]

You can make one out of a plastic soda bottle. Just google DIY brine shrimp hatchery.

 

[duanes]

I don't feed the artemia, I feed fry for a few days on the newly hatched shrimp, then toss the left over eggs into an out door shallow pan where any unhatched eggs hatch, and feed on unicellular algae, and grow to adults.

Interesting, sort of like the whole SeaMonkey deal. Anyway what do you feed them, and do you do anything extra to get them to breed?


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[bloodlucky]

I don't feed the artemia, I feed fry for a few days on the newly hatched shrimp, then toss the left over eggs into an out door shallow pan where any unhatched eggs hatch, and feed on unicellular algae, and grow to adults.

Seems like something I couldn't manage being as unorganized as I am. I'll try browsing around but it's not a priority unless there are some feeding difficulties


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[duanes]

As you can see in the 1st post, I always have 2 shrimp cultures going, I start one, then another, a day or 2 later, and move the PVC piece that says "new" onto the top of the latest one started, tossing the old culture into the outside pan.
Pretty simplistic.