[quote=”7 Zwerge” post=3835]Hallo!
Now I have another question ( 😉 I seem always to see problems no one seems to have 😉 ):
You can find enough different methods how to breed brine shrimps so that we don’t need to discuss them all here.
But I see following problem:
There is the possibility to breed them in breeding bowls? shells? I don’t know the right word, that gives only a small amount of brine shrimps, but you have no eggs in the little sieve where the brine shrimps swim to the light. I hope you understand what I mean …
And the method to get much more brine shrimps is the bottle method with air pump.
Provided you use the best quality of eggs – nevertheless you will never get just shrimps, without eggs …
Just the open eggs swim at the top of the bottle if you switch out the air pump …
I controlled it with a magnifying glass. I tried different methods. I tried special bottles from the aquaristic industry.
It seems to me, that no one really controlles this mixture, one is happy to have many brine shrimps in the sieve to feed the fish…..
Perhaps our Paros will just eat the swimming brine shrimps and not the eggs???
But it is always a risk, specially with young, small fish, they can get intestinal obstruction. In this way I once lost a whole group of young Oryzias woworae … (but these are fish who eat industrial food)
Has someone ideas concerning this subject? ;-)[/quote]
I am preparing an extensive article for the hobbyists in the P-P on how to handle Artemia the right way but I will post pictures tomorrow where you can see how you can hatch eggs without aeration and have them clearly separated. Of course other possible method is decapsulation of eggs pre hatching which is the best, but you do not need to do that.