Where can I get some Frozen Baby Brine Shrimp?
- Thread starter Ghage
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Most stores can order it if they carry the regular frozen brine shrimp. It's from the same supplier. It's a more specialize food that not all store can sell as easily as the regular size. Good Luck.
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Several of my LFSs sell it regularly (even my local Petsmart) as its a convenient way to feed fry without having to hatch out your own. I use the frozen stuff myself mostly because its easy and I have yet to have an issue with it. Plus there is virtually no difference in nutritional value between frozen and live these days as the shrimp are gut loaded before being frozen. Live shrimp have the added benefit of staying alive in the tank so the fry can hunt and be active, but that is about it.
My favorite LFS is a little over 2 hours away, which sucks because the owner is a guy who definitely knows what he's doing. He quarantines all his fish for 2 weeks before they even touch his sales floor. He is in the hobby himself and has been for years, so his advice is great because he is more interested in happy customers, happy fish and repeat business than he is in getting a huge sale. Plus he can get just about anything in stock. Anyways, he keeps a list of all the frozen and dry food products he has the ability to get in stock right in the store where customers can see it so they know he can get other things for them simply because he doesn't have room to carry everything under the sun.
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Where in centcal are you? I know both petsmart and petco in fresno area do NOT sell baby brine shrimp, only frozen adult brine shrimp. Only places I've found frozen baby brine are Whitie's Pets in Fresno and Seven Seas in Clovis
yeah I've tried petco on blackstone, and the petsmarts at shaw/clovis & herndon/willow. none of them carry it (or had it in stock over several trips I've taken there). That's what made me start hatching my own is how overpriced whitie's is at around $11/tray
Yeah, a lot of things at Whities is way overpriced. Solid selection but they basically have no competition for the beyond-standard stuff so they charge you an arm and a leg for it. Only great deals I get there is if there is a girl working in the fish department and she gets my fish for me, the chick gave me my grammode for $5 when it was supposed to be $10. Also got my albino senegal for $3 when it was supposed to be $11 as well.