Keeping Brine shrimp alive?

[JG]

What the best way to keep brine shrimp alive? I've heard to get a small bucket, or little nano tank, and just use an airstone in it. Also just keep the water at room temp.
What do you guys recommend? Do you do any partial water changes? Feed the brine at all? What salinity do you keep the water at?

[rayjay]

Depends on how long you want to keep them alive. In the short term, you can keep them in the fridge. Take out what you need for feeding, and, in an aerated container, add selco or selcon to fortify them for a while, before feeding them to your fish.
If you want to keep them so they produce the young nauplii, you need a lot of patience, manual labour and luck. Raising Brine Shrimp is a lot of work and not worth it if you can buy them. I can't buy them so I do the work.
I have a write up on my web site about my process. Once you get to my web site, click on "On raising brine shrimp" and get the text and pictures.

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[WowAFish]

I keep mine in the fridge in a plastic bowl with air holes punched in the lid. If you don't add the airholes they will only last a few days. With the airholes they last about a week. Just in time for my LFS to get another delivery.

[Rod Buehler]

Brine shrimp are completely void of their nutritional value within 24 hours of hatching, unless they are gut loaded with hufa's and/or phytoplanktons. I find it best to feed the brine to the tank imeaditly after hatching. here is a link to a DIY hatchery, http://www.rodsreef.com/brine_hatchery.htm .. And a link to some feeding techniques http://www.rodsreef.com/banggai_feeding.htm
Good luck

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