How to Hatch Baby Brine Shrimp like a Master Breeder

[@AquariumCoop]

🛒 Get your own Aquarium Co-Op brine shrimp eggs at www.aquariumcoop.com/products/aquarium-co-op-brine-shrimp-eggs

[@itsmedario]

Hey Cory, do you have a link for the sieve? Thank you

[@dougsmith1619]

Can you ship to Australia ?

[@oscarolie5743]

Thar was a syphon...

[@itsmedario]

@@oscarolie5743 I'm talkinga bout the sieve he uses around the 11 min mark.

[@richworthkid1079]

@AquariumCoop do you ship to the UK?

[@deansfishroom]

Awesome video!!! Dean has so much information to share! Oh wait, I'm Dean. . . this was another fun one to make with Cory. And that Pro Tip at 23:04 you don't want to miss it.

[@TobysTank]

@@deansfishroom Dean I talked to a local guy who told me to make a super saturated saline solution and to put the BBS in it in Petro dishes. This then goes into the fridge. I've been able to keep them alive for four days like this and they stay pretty much the same size. He got the info from a Marin biologist at OSU locally. I highly suggest you give it a shot.

[@leilani-rose]

@@deansfishroom 😄

[@deyaapro1881]

@@TobysTank hey can you please share more info on how to make the super saturated saline solution

[@ClaytonKicks]

Glad to see dean back on the channel it’s been a while

[@andrewmiller3767]

Dean and Cory together is such a great combo!

[@4loveoffish]

You should sell the sieve and the 4 cup measuring cup to fit the sieve.

[@house102]

I hope dean shares the link to Amazon where he got it from

[@Kirks_Aquariums]

Always love hearing all the little details in these videos, have helped me hatch good hatches over the years. Thanks Dean and Cory

[@BettaFreaks]

I could listen to this men giving away his knowledge for ages it’s just delightful 🙌🏻 we love u Dean!

[@georgweyand88]

Great video you two. The 36 hours time limit helped me improve my brine shrimp harvest with eggs bought from Aquarium Coop.

[@stoneysscapes7544]

Great time to be in Dean's Fish Room, and all the extra nuggets that are going to have helped a lot of people who are just starting the hobby and people who want to be better @ breeding and thank you Cory ❕❕❕❕

[@carriep8328]

Thank you for this video. It inspired me to get a brine shrimp hatchery for my guppies and guppy fry. It has been a game changer! Thank you!

[@GrizzlyDave85]

This sold me a hatchery, salt, and eggs. Man you guys are good! 😂

[@mikefisher4834]

It’s weird You get to know people through videos like this for years and start to feel like their family but they have no clue who you are💀

[@jamesjamesnet]

Best video on Hatch Brine Shrimp I add this video to my playlist. Thanks to you both.

[@ericesper348]

Here, I am watching repeatedly fast.Forwarding and backing it up to get a better look at how Dean mounts his to the wall. I've been using this for a month.It's been a game changer as someone else said. With the temperatures in my house I get the largest hatch at forty eight hours. I'm buying a second hatchery so that I will have Baby brine shrimp every day.

[@KentoLeoDragon]

Good timing. I just ordered some eggs from you the other day and should be getting them tomorrow I think. First time for me. If it goes well, I'll consider upgrading to the fancy schmancy Ziss thingy. I just have some Badis I want to feed. I'm not breeding anything but I always wanted to give me various fish some live food once in awhile.

[@FlatbedAquatics]

Appreciate the helpful info from both of you. I haven’t been having a lot of luck hatching bb but this definitely gives me a different way of looking and doing it.

[@lurklingX]

much

[@MeowtroidPrime]

I got a ziss hatcher about a year ago from you all but never really felt confident about trying to hatch the shrimp myself since I wasn't sure if my room temp would be too low for them. When you all had your sale of eggs, and with seeing this video, I decided to give it a shot finally, and have been obsessed with hatching them ever since! Apparently room temp around 70 to 72 degrees is plenty warm if you go 36 hours like Dean suggests. I love watching my nano fish go bananas for them - especially my white clouds who are picky and really only like to eat from mid-water, and my chili rasboras who show much more of their predatory behavior when attacking the bbs. I'm hoping to set up a brine shrimp hatching station like Dean here so I can keep easily feeding brine shrimp at least a few times a week!

[@MarandaisAmazing]

I wish dean had a channel.. the videos he is in are always my favorite

[@teresagray8391]

I love your video, it's awesome. I am on the other side of the fish world (saltwater). I read a article from Paul b about feeding mandarin goby fish alternative food, including BBS. It made it possible for me to have a mandarin goby fish, which is a hard fish to have in a saltwater tank because it needs live food. I have been hatching BBS for about a year and half to feed my mandarin goby. Thanks to ( Paul b), with the live baby brine shrimp I have been able to have 2 mandarins and 2 ruby red gobies in a 60 gallon tank and they are all extremely fat. Most people believe you can only have one mandarin or ruby red in a 55 gallon tank because mandarins will run out of food so quickly, but feeding BBS changed all that for me ❤.

[@louismaniscalco1389]

I'm in my 2nd year of the hobby and I'm still very green. I love all the educational video's you guys put out there for us newbies. I received my Baby Brine Shrimp hatchery/Salt and brine shrimp eggs yesterday and successfully hatched my first batch and fed my fish today. I only have two tanks a 75gal and a 125gal tank, and I wanted to get an opinion of what is considered a safe amount of both salt and brine shrimp weekly. Each tank is fairly well stocked with community fish, but my platy's recently had babies and now I have baby fry as well as a few youth platy's. Anyway, I only filled my hatchery a little less than 2/3 of the way, only added 1 table spoon of salt and 1/2 teaspoon of eggs. My biggest concern is if I do this every day will I be over salting my tanks. I basically poured about 1/2 the batch in each tank. The 125gal tank with the larger fish did a great job of clearing up their tank in no time, the 75gal with mostly small fish took quite sometime to eat up their batch. I know there were between 5-10 fry fish roaming around the tank before the feeding, now I only see one. My concern is that they were either eaten in the frenzy. Died from excessive salt, or their just hiding now that their bellies are full. Any thoughts or comments would be much appreciated.

[@LushSaltyAquariums]

Great video. One thing not mentioned is that you can feed BBS to many, many adult fish as well. Tetras and Rasboras and Barbs love them and get all the benefits, too!

[@tiffanyclark-grove1989]

this video is serendipitous. My grandson and I are attempting to hatch brine shrimp eggs. We started yesterday, so now we’re just waiting. I would love to get the Ziss😊

[@dwendel8512]

Incredible Everytime I see this room I'm in awe such a great system

[@davidqueenan7852]

Funny... I've been hatching brine shrimp for years and just bought the Ziss from ya'll. I had a 2 1litre DIY system going, and had great results. This system cuts my labor in half, easily. Funny I ran across this video after I bought it. Like Big Brother is really watching.

[@sschario60]

Great addition to Cory's tutorial. I appreciate hearing Dean's take re: 18/24/36 hour hatches. As we have chloramines in St. Louis tap, perhaps 36 hour hatches can increase harvests despite my use of a de-chlorinator? Also will try Dean's suggestion to store baby brine shrimp in aerated salt water. Refrigerating them hasn't yet worked for me, either. Thanks gentlemen.

[@Bill.Donnelly]

Where can I purchase that sieve Dean is using please

[@nirvanaquatics]

The sieve has been altered with a cabinet handle attached with flathead stainless steel screws, however you can purchase the 120 micron sieve itself on Amazon here: a.co/d/0MOvzsL

[@Lazien24]

​@nirvanaquatics Thanks for the Link!!!

[@realWesMantooth]

I enjoy using Mercer of Montana... I use the 250 micron sieve which is large enough to catch the shells, but let's the brine shrimp pass through. Then the 120 micron sieve on the bottom to catch the brine shrimp, but let's the water drain out. You could also use a brine shrimp net combo that does the same thing. Good luck!

[@ROYALAQUA]

Best video for all fish breeders community... Thanks a lot...

[@fishmaniachattanooga1680]

I wonder where the hobby would be if Brine shrimp were not a thing. I love little questions like that. Great video! I love The tips and tricks of the trade. But seriously think about how a lot of the way that we can breed a lot of different fish hinges on one tiny little animal. Super cool! 😁🐟

[@TheVulcanBard]

I started hatching BBS because of how much Dean and Cory reccomend it and it is amazing! I love feeding it to my fish because they go crazy for it. I don't really know if I see much of a difference in fish breeding or growth but when I feed BBS daily I am much more in tune with my tank and that makes the tanks so much better.

[@amayanut]

Thought about trying the easy lift on my fluval hatchery… of course Dean’s already done it!

[@ragnabloodfallen]

Do you guys sell the legs it's self I have bought one but way before the legs where not included a long time ago like maybe two plus years ago

[@paulakreinberg1448]

Yes legs come with it.

[@ErikWhyRock]

@ragnabloodfallen5232 there is a great DIY video on how to make a stand for the Zeiss brine shrimp hatchery! I believe it is on the More Aquarium Co-op channel here on KZbin. It might be on the main channel but I think it's on their other channel.

[@ErikWhyRock]

I just searched "zeiss brine shrimp hatchery aquarium co op diy stand"and it was the first video!!

[@Bill.Donnelly]

Where can I buy that sieve?

[@leonardsanders5826]

Some good videos on KZbin on brine shrimp, like storing the left overs, or dumping leftovers into a container or small spare tank to grow out for larger fish. I read some place that brine shrimp are only a positive nutritional value in their hatchling state and near the end when they grow out....states in the middle are very low in value as a food source. Hence why they do Daphnia in addition to BBS. Thank you for the video, I always enjoy your content.

[@MIKoenig44]

"You're just a madman who feeds Brine Shrimp twice a day...every day.." LOL

[@tinadoyle3803]

Why?

[@richardmcgrath558]

Great video, just wondering where you got the brine shrimp stainer

[@holo_gram_]

Whats the glass thing to wash ? Great vid thnks🎉

[@rodd555]

always appreciate a decent brine shrimp video.

[@marcosgcm]

Thank you for this video! Question: What about the sterilization process the packaged food offers? (Free of parasites and bacterias). Thank you.

[@zedestatebc4437]

The brime shrimp sieve - where would one purchase that product?

[@Passh74]

I have tried almost every brand of brine shrimp in the world, i can confirm the aquarium-coop brand is the best there is, and I exclusively use them now. The Ziss hatchery is not the best however. I retired mine. I use JBL hatchery or just an inverted water bottle.

[@dustinlemley4474]

I like to use hot water and I’m able to get them to hatch in 24hrs or less. I don’t use all at one and get mine to live for 3 days most times. I love these. Great product and the fish love it!

[@staceyhart7827]

Great video love seeing you two together. I just bought a hatchery but I do have chlorine and chloramine in the water here so how do I go about hatching and feeding?

[@AquariumCoop]

I myself like to take a scoop of water from fish tank or barrel that has some treated water in it.

[@Dr.CumsteinMD]

I just hatched my first batch out of my ziss hatchery that I got from you guys. I got a set of brine shrimp sieves on amazon, but the pre filter doesn't seem to filter all the shrimp through. About 1/3 lf the hatch made it through the first sieve, but I had to suck out the remaining babies with my pipette. Luckily there wasn't that many eggs that came out of the hatchery. I was wondering if other people have had this problem, and if anyone has any other advice, or better strainers out there. The one being used in this video is probably way overkill for the amount I will be hatching. I was rinsing them with the salt water from the hatchery and I saved them in a container with that water to keep in my fridge for the next day or two, and froze the rest. I basically froze all the ones that made it through the filter, but decided to just feed them the unfiltered stuff fresh. I'm just glad my pea puffers finally started eating them after about 10min.

[@ThePenatron]

Did you make that sieve?

[@tinadoyle3803]

I bought a standered cone JBL hatchery for harvesting bbs it holds 15ml of water the problem is everytime a batch is ready to be fed too mu fry theres lots of brown eggs at the bottom as well so when i drain the eggs out im left with a mix of lovely orange bbs and brown eggs its really annoying as i lose a lot of hatched shrimp when trying to separate them 😢 any advice on how i can stop the brown shells from gathering at the bottom would be great thanks. Great too see Dean back. Love this man all the way from Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤

[@jodip719]

With feeding bbs this often, how do you avoid hydra population explosions?

[@michaela-be4le]

Good day Cory/Dean, I use 2.5 gallon hatchers. Salinity is at 0.025 with quarter teaspoon baking soda. Is that enough baking soda or too much ❔

[@crazyshots6313]

15:46 what did dean put in the end of that easy flow to make it not float cause I've wanted to do that but unless I suction cup it to the side it will float, New video idea Deans experiments in the fish room lol

[@Fin2FinAquariums]

Have you guys tried the Decapsulated Brine shrimp ?, any thoughts on it. I have been using it for a while and would love to hear what you think of it compared to live Brine shrimp.

[@jaemarple608]

Where can you buy the leg extension for the brine shrimp hatchery bottle holder? Or the holder for the brine shrimp bottle? I already have the ziss brine shrimp hatchery

[@kennyangel]

My mind was blown when Dean measured in litres!? Love it. Have to say though, a pound is more like 500g not 400g, a quarter of a pound if 250g roughly. One gram 1g is 1/1000th of 1kg and 1kg is exactly the weight of 1 Litre (1000ml) of water. Meaning 1 ml of water weighs exactly 1 g

[@asredden]

The container with the spray is referred to as a safety wash bottle, but are also referred to just as a wash bottle or spray bottle in the laboratory. They are invaluable in laboratory work. I have worked in and out of analytical wet chemistry laboratories for about 35 years so I would know ha ha. The water version is usually blue, methanol green and acetone red. These three are the common ones methanol and acetone used as a cleaning solvent for most chemicals that are not water soluble or to dry glassware. The acetone would need to be used under a hood though, methanol not so much.

[@lisap1776]

Did you use a 3D printer for that cool Ziss Brine Shrimp Hatchery stand by your sink??? It's really cool and I want one. Also, do you also do you feed adult fish brine shrimp, as well?

[@xXIceWolfXx94]

I really like the Videos with Dean, greetings from Germany .

[@cameronstoneadams1183]

any additional nutritional benefit when you feed BBS at 24 hours?

[@dzonz4274]

Apparently, the fresher, the better because they still have the nutrients from the egg yoke

[@espeterson522]

I used to feed with a baster, now I feed with a condiment bottle. From two hands to one, and super easy to meter how much each tank gets!

[@Ben-Mul]

Just finished up the live stream from last week, finished up this video with Dean, probably time to put in an order for more aquarium coop stuff!

[@ScaRlaK319]

what if you wanted to grow the shrimp? would your process be any different?

[@michaelprince7825]

Great tutorial and tips for hatching baby brine shrimp.

[@timmort507]

Cory, I’ve always been interested and Ive always wondered how do they collect brine shrimp eggs!!??

[@AquariumCoop]

I haven't witnessed it, but supposedly the wind makes waves and the floating eggs wash up onto the salt deposits on the sides of the lakes. I'm not exactly sure how they harvest the eggs from the salt at that point and get them to be debris free.

[@catfishm.1361]

Hi, needed to ask where do you suggest I buy aquarium/fish safe wood for decorating tanks? 👍🏻

[@ericsullivan3642]

Do you ever grow your brine shrimp out and feed them with phyto to enrich them for bigger fish?

[@ThienNguyen-og7wt]

Hello sir , do you have the cup separate the brine shrimp and salt. Please make a full combo wombo breeding brine shrimp items

[@Grand-Massive]

If my tap water ph is about 7.8 should i be fine with just normal rock salt without any buffer?

[@jimmyreese4740]

Great Video!!!

[@Jlui83]

How do you stop the eggs going up the walls of the hatchery? I have to squirt water along the sides maybe for 10 min in the beginning to help the eggs get back to the water

[@laurenwitten7157]

I read to refrigerate the eggs after opening the container, but there was no mention of that in the video. Please clarify! I have the small vial size. Thanks

[@AquariumCoop]

Depends on how long it'll take you to use them. If you use them all in a week or two, cold storage won't change much. If you're going to use a little bit once a week, keeping it in the fridge will ensure best hatch rates.

[@evielucas5847]

Where do I get the seive that Dean uses? I have everything else from the the co-op

[@nirvanaquatics]

The sieve has been altered with a cabinet handle attached with flathead stainless steel screws, however you can purchase the 120 micron sieve itself on Amazon here: a.co/d/0MOvzsL

[@TheNorville2]

Great informative video...

[@rattpoison1]

Really educational vid. Makes sense to trigger fish to eat for growth.

[@shaunyboy6605]

Are there any other live foods for fry you could do? Like daphnia or something like that. I'm curious if people use other types of live foods or if baby brine shrimp are just the best

[@Mrsboncouer]

I've tried paramecium, green water and vinegar eels in progress, have mosquito container for larvae

[@lynnberg7812]

I feed daphnia twice a week, but baby brine are a must for the babies. I don't know how the nutrition compares.

[@Vel_178]

Got a colony going at the windowsill in a 6 gallon. The rate these guys are mating there is always some take out. Feed once a week with spirulina, they run itself noming on algae.

[@Frostfire40]

I've been thinking of getting a 10 gallon tank and do community freshwater fish with a betta. Can any kind of fish eat brine shrimp or is it only certain kinds of fish that eat them?

[@bigfishlad4847]

Great educational video as always, nobody does it better

[@EyezLikaFox̌]

I have the co-op eggs, ziss and heater. Im still getting alotttt of eggs at the bottom, this is only my 2nd batch ive made but both batches have went the same way..lots of sinking eggs.. I ordered a set of 2 sieves. 80 and 200 microns. Its NOT separating the eggs/shrimp and i rinse full power under the sink. So im left with a choice of throw out all the food or feed and litter my tank with eggs. Advice? But from every video of co-op eggs, i shouldnt be gettin this many unhatched eggs?? And i follow the directions exactly.. any sieves tried and true that you can recommend? So far this little project is making me feel like I wasted money 😢

[@jonathanknight2395]

​@@EyezLikaFox̌ Sounds like us. 1st batch, was full of eggs and didn't have a seive. We just threw it all out. Looked at video again and noticed our air flow was 2x as high compared to video. We did pre mix the water with baking soda until ph was 8. Water temp stayed round 78°f whole 36hrs. On our 2nd try as I write. Same as 1st with lower air flow and have a good seive n rinse bottle. Hoping for better and will post results in 36.

[@jonathanknight2395]

Update: About n hour shy of 36 and I can already tell that this 2nd hatch is much much better. 1hr to go.

[@JohnSmith-ez9dx]

Hello. Where do we buy the egg separator?

[@sherrydwire7908]

Glad to hear that Dean has trouble keeping bbs alive in the refrigerator. I thought it was just me.

[@mikegalbraith2105]

Are those live plants in his tanks attached to Driftwood?

[@danyan6806]

Does it matter if the water you rinse the brine shrimp off with after sieving has chlorine in it?

[@AquariumCoop]

Nope tends to be fine. Don’t use scaling water or anything.

[@danyan6806]

@@AquariumCoop okay awesome! Thank you very much for the help! I am new to the hobby(started January this year) and all your videos and other resources have been a tremendous help!

[@evita1643]

Cory. You've talked about how people ask you about measurements of salt often and how you cant really give that since everyone has a different type and density of salt so a cup of salt for one brand might be very different than a cup of salt of another brand. In Europe we measure salt not by volume but by weight. We would say 'add x grams/pounds of salt'. The volume of grainsize doesnt matter since you only talk about the actual weight of the actual salt. That way everyone adds the same exact amount of salt, no matter what brand they have. To get rid of all the questions you get, it might be an idea to put the weight of the salt on your blog or in the videos. You measure how much one cup of your salt weighs and will be done with the questions from there on out. 😊

[@EyezLikaFox̌]

I'm confused. Some kits have no air bubbler required and some do. Can someone explain? Ty

[@selinarittenhouse1181]

Could i use an air stone?

[@Jon-jk3bh]

Cooking with Deano! 😂

[@EasyVRider]

How do they make and harvest the brine shrimp eggs that aquarium coop has. I would love to see a video about that process

[@EyezLikaFox̌]

Where can I find that nifty bendable light he uses? 😊

[@LTYFLY]

Please offer a larger container! I love your bbs!!!

[@natemathewson1337]

I feed baby brine everyday 3 times a day to about 15 tanks myself. Cory, when will 1lb cans be on the website?

[@AquariumCoop]

1lb is highly unlikely. There are no savings to be had unfortunately from the manufacturer.

[@anthonylezama-cx9hf]

How much baking soda to what volume of solution ?

[@gibsonfan-sm6nw]

So putting that much tap water right into each tank twice a day won't hurt any of the beneficial bacteria or the fish? I have been wondering how much tap water would actually become a problem vs what is safe. Does it hurt to add some Prime to the brine shrimp water for peace of mind? Or is that just a waste due to how little chlorine is actually added to the tanks? Great video by the way!

[@Graniteer]

Shouldn't be a big deal. Average free chlorine residual is generally less than 1 mg/l, so unless you're right next door to the treatment facility and you don't dump a full quart into your tank, should never be an issue. Further, there's something known as a 'chlorine demand' which is a fancy way of saying how much chlorine will get sucked up and made inert by other compounds, which are most always dissolved carbon species.

[@thebiotopes]

If I only use one scoop of eggs (1.5 tsp) would I only use 1 tbs of salt? Or, is the salt constant with the volume of water used (about 2 L)?

[@nirvanaquatics]

The salt will always be consistent with the volume of water, for any quantity of eggs being hatched :)

[@thebiotopes]

@@nirvanaquatics Thanks so much!

[@nirvanaquatics]

@@thebiotopes Happy to help!

[@terrig19]

do yous ship to the UK?

[@Mrsboncouer]

What's the difference tween BSD and AC egg

[@garageaquatics2023]

Wondering where Dean got his 120 micron seive? Thanks! ~Ron

[@nirvanaquatics]

a.co/d/cfX1Ruc The Sieve is made by Mercer of Montana and you can find them on Amazon. They come in three sizes 2", 3", and 4". It is the 120 micron size that you want for brine shrimp. Get the 2" if you are only feeding 1-3 tanks and not using tons of brine shrimp eggs. The 3" would be the next step up if you are using a teaspoon of eggs at a time. Finally the 4" if you are hatching a tablelspoon of brine shrimp eggs at a time. There is a cabinet handle added using flat head stainless steel screws as an attachment method.

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@nirvanaquatics Thanks! In fact I got it about an hour before I saw your comment. And just so you know, the link you shared is coming up blocked. I had originally seen it in one of yur earlier comments. Blocked there too. Might just be on my end. Cheers!

[@nirvanaquatics]

@@garageaquatics2023 I think KZbin automatically blocks links, unfortunately, I'm glad you were able to find it!

[@itsmedario]

@@nirvanaquatics are you sure this information is correct? The handle seems to sit flush on the sieve but there is an obvious change in diameter from the top to the bottom of the sieve. Wouldn't the handle need to be rounded where it connects to the sieve for this to work? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. What Dean has looks very professional in my opinion.

[@nirvanaquatics]

@@itsmedario the information came directly from Dean, he is just very good at DIY lol.

[@0Turbox]

Does anyone have a link to Sanders brine shrimp company? For business reasons.

[@BONP1E]

Can you feed bbs to juvenile Tropheus?

[@Outside-InAquatics]

Adjustable airstones the multi colored ones. Build up dead brine shrimp eggs in them and then Eventually it ruins your hatches as well.💚💚💚

[@camos1]

Love videos like this

[@frostiefrost5534]

For smaller volumes, I use kosher salt and the baking soda.

[@shaunneal9981]

I've found the eggs I can get here is Aus only ever give me about 80% hatch rate and it was very fiddly to seperate the eggs. I now decapsulate them prior to hatching and I find it so much easier. Would be great if I could get some Co-op eggs!

[@melissakilpatrick5715]

Wish we could get their brand here

[@kylekarsten721]

I always dechlorinated my water for baby baby brine shrimp (I have chloramine here). I got lazy and tried without and my results haven't changed. Still getting great hatches.

[@STELLASCUTENESS]

The small amount of chlorine actually assists in hatching the cysts. It also gasses off eventually.

[@kylekarsten721]

@STELLASCUTENESS yes, I wish I had chlorine still. We have chloramine here now. It does not gas off