How to Hatch Brine Shrimp Eggs with NO Equipment | NO Air Pump Easy Setup

[Music] hi everyone this is fish forever and in today's video i'm going to show you a very easy way to hatch these right here our aretimia cysts also known as brine shrimp so traditionally people will feed their fish flash frozen brine shrimp due to the inability to find live ones in stores they also don't want to go through the hassle of buying a lot of extensive hatchery setups to do so as well so today i will show you how i hatch and feed my fish brine shrimp with a minimalistic approach okay so this is everything that you will need to hatch your brine shrimp the first thing would of course be the brine shrimp this is the brand bindi i found it on amazon some of its claims is that it's easy to hatch has a high hatchery and that it of course has a high nutrition value and this is half an ounce you're also going to need something to put the brine shrimp in i'm just using this 18 fluid ounce container a scooper some kind of pipette i'm using a turkey baster optionally you can use some baking salts if your ph is lower than 8.0 some aquarium salts you can also use table salt and then i'm just using some binder clips to hold up the container so the reason why this method is not traditional is because there are three main components of hatching brine shrimp properly these include the salinity of the water which is the concentration of salt in the water the temperature and the ph without the proper conditions the brine shrimp will not be able to break out of their shells therefore they will die but this is the closest way that i can get to hatch the shrimp without needing extensive equipment the process itself is very simple you're just going to take the container and add a binder clip to the front of it this is basically just going to act as a little ledge that way it doesn't fall into the tank now we are going to be adding the aquarium salt the measurements for salinity is one and two thirds tablespoon of salt per one quart of water so that's four cups or 32 ounces and since this is an 18 ounce container i'm going to be adding roughly two and a half teaspoons of aquarium salt [Music] this is about how much salt i will be using i roughly estimated it as i do bake sometimes at this point you'd add your baking soda if your ph is under eight it would be one half teaspoon per four cups of course everybody's ph of their water is different by the way i also wanted to mention you don't have to use your aquarium water for this you could also just use traditional tap water if you're adding baking soda into the little concoction and putting it into your tank you want to be very careful that this does not spill into your tank some fish are more sensitive to baking soda than others now that the salt is added i'm going to be adding some water in just for the start i'm going to be adding in about one ounce of water and just dissolving this okay and now that the salt is fully dissolved we're going to be adding the little container into the tank [Music] now the best way to do this is to just place it vertically so no air bubbles form underneath and basically just start filling it up with the aquarium water just about halfway you could also just pour some water into it now of course the container will float on top like this but having this right here will just ensure that nothing falls down be sure to keep it underneath the light as an optimum temperature for hatching the brine shrimp is 82 degrees fahrenheit that is actually another reason why putting it inside of the tank would be very useful for this process because since i already have an aquarium heater it's almost like i'm acclimating it at all times all right and now for the final part we will be opening the brine shrimp eggs there are preparations on this packaging which i highly appreciate but i like to make everything look very nice and neat so i'm using a pair of scissors for this it's also very handy because this packaging has a zipper on top all right let's see how these look now i suspect these eggs to just look like dirt but let's open it up and take a look all right and my suspicion was correct it just looks like very fine grain sand pretty hard to believe that there are living creatures right here in front of us i'm just going to eyeball the amount of brine shrimp i place into the little hatchery that we created but the amount will depend on how many you want so don't overload it i'm just going to be using that much see they're just very microscopic little looking beads make sure you take into consideration that not a hundred percent of them will hatch so put a little bit more than you think you will need but nevertheless there we go they will float on top so make sure that you kind of maneuver them around like this and make sure they are spread evenly in the water i'm just going to place my lid back on here very very carefully and the purpose of this binder clip is right here [Music] so that when you close your lid it still has this little latch here to make sure that the container does not fall into the tank like that all right this is pretty much what the enclosed setup looks like we have the hatchery right underneath the light and by the way i'm doing this fairly early in the day that way the light will be on them for roughly eight to ten hours i really like using this hatchery setup as well because it fits very tightly with the lid and my lid is clear so i can see what's going on on top after you're done setting up the little hatchery you're going to place the whole container in a ziploc bag and store it in a place that's less than 40 degrees fahrenheit so for me that's going to be my fridge all right and at this point we've created life i'm just joking but we will check in with this in about 36 hours sometimes it can take a little bit longer depending on how warm your water is or how cold it is but i will get back to you as soon as i see the first hatchling all right so this is about 20 hours in we already have a few that have hatched there are just some slight movements around such as right there and pretty much just everywhere so i'll get to you guys back in about five more hours to see if any more have hatched all right and this is officially 24 hours after placing the eggs into the little solution that we made of just salt and water i would say that the claim that greater than 90 of them will hatch is definitely true because as you can see here we have thousands of baby brine shrimp i don't even think i'll be able to feed all of these to my fish although they look very hungry but there are so many of them in here so all of the little brine shrimp are swimming on the top to middle range of the little container and at the bottom are the little eggshells that they popped out of we just have to be very careful when putting our pipette in there to not disturb the contents that has settled at the bottom all right and this is about 48 hours after putting it inside of the hatchery i think it's safe to say pretty much over 95 of them hatched out i have some hungry fish there to the left but yeah this is how they're all looking so at this point you're safe to feed them to your fish however if you want to grow them out you can feed them some crushed up algae wafers or some boiled egg yolk now when feeding this to your fish you obviously don't want to feed them any of the shells which have a surface to the top and some are at the bottom an option for removing it or separating it would just be shining a flashlight at the bottom and having all the brine shrimp swim there since they're attracted to light in my case most of the egg shells are at the top rims so i won't have to worry too much about it just one more note before feeding this remember that this water possibly had a lot of salt in it so if you have any fish or invertebrates in your tank that are sensitive to that make sure you rinse them out first [Music] [Music] [Music] so that's gonna be everything for today's video i really hope you guys enjoyed and found it helpful don't forget to like the video and subscribe to my channel follow my instagram fish forever channel and i'll see you guys next time [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 9min 53sec (593 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 03 2020