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Posted by Lilly on May 4, 2005, 2:45 pm
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Yes, a little will produce a lot!
Actually Katra, they'll be enjoyed a lot by your Betta. Think of them
like popcorn. He will spend a lot of time hunting them down.
What you are doing is called passive hatching (without aeration). There
are setups available commercially that will allow you to hatch/harvest.
Or after you get a look at one, you could make your own out of
odds/ends, like those plastic black salad dishes, some cardboard
sprayed black and something to strain.
I don't feed the BBS since I harvest them fast enough. But when I
don't, they survive for a while w/out help. Usually I rinse the
contraption out weekly and start over.
In the meantime, you can shine a bright spot/flash light at the bottom
of the container and they will gather there. Use airline to draw them
out and strain them thru a brine shrimp net. You can reuse the water
you collect, and even put the shells back in because not all of the BBS
have hatched out just yet.
Lilly
Katra wrote:
> I put 3 cups of water in a widemouth quart jar with 3 tsp. of sea
> salt..... and added a rather larger than intended pinch of brine
shrimp
> eggs two days ago.
>
> Now I have teensy little pinpoint sized critters all swimming around
in
> there like little fairies. ;-)
>
> WAY to small to feed to the Betta!
>
> No aerator or anything, I guess I need to feed them to get them to
grow
> a bit. I remember my sister's "sea monkeys" getting to be about 1 cm.
> long before they started to reproduce and then die. You could see the
> females carrying eggs.
>
> As long as she kept water in the plastic tank, the eggs that the
adult
> ones laid would hatch so she had an ongoing population for quite some
> time! She did not put an air stone or anything in with them either,
and
> they did just fine.
>
> So, what do I feed them and how much to make them get big enough to
feed
> the Betta, and how do I get them out? They seem way too delicate for
a
> fish net!
>
> Looks like I overdid it. There are easily a few thousand in the jar.
<G>
>
> Please help?????
>
> Thanks!
> --
> K.
>
> Sprout the MungBean to reply
>
> "I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell=8Byou
> see, I have friends in both places." --Mark Twain
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> salt..... and added a rather larger than intended pinch of brine