HOW TO RAISE BRINE SHRIMP TO ADULTS.

On this video I'll be showing you how i raise brine shrimp to adults to feed to my fish . We'll be covering hatchers, salt mix, and what foods I feed my shrimp to get them to grow quickly .

[@MrDaverunamuck]

Hi Mark, followed your instructions and have been harvesting adult brine shrimp for month's now. All I have to do is feed them and a water change now and again. Now have an endless supply of brine shrimp. Great for conditioning fish to breed. Great video

[@manichek]

What are you feeding them after hatch

[@MrDaverunamuck]

Spirulina powder, mix it with water and feed about 5ml each day

[@ljeaquatics]

Dave how much do you feed? And how often

[@ljeaquatics]

[e-mail] email.me

[@roomaquatics1118]

sir, how frequent do you do water change?

[@arvalia]

This is the most complete guide for hatching and growing brine shrimps! Thank you, I learnt a lot!

[@askerafaunov5424]

been looking for a video about breeding brine shrimp for hours. This was the only relevant and informative one i could find...finally. Thank you so much for posting this!

[@alwayswondering4051]

What I find so cool and so engaging about Mark is his attitude toward life. He has the camera on a small volume of aquarium water of perhaps ~ 60 cu.in. of habitat, and he sees an absolute universe of life. He meticulously points everything out to you. Amazing. What I've always experienced, wonderful. My kinda person. This dude's in-touch. Sensitive. Competent. Responsible. Honest. Learned. Sincere. Not-too-much. I don't want his head to get too big. It is true though. I'm very impressed. I've not seen the likes of him anywhere on the net. He is very good at hands-on plain this-is-how-you-do-it step by step easy very well shown illustrated procedure. Excellent. Mark, write some bloody books man ! Thank you so very much. Your worth more than you know, believe me. I've kept fish since 1968.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Thank you for your wonderful comments. 😀👍

[@dienadel30]

I was so inspired by this video I recently remember I had a vile of brine cysts sitting in the fridge for the last 4-5 years grabbed a shot glass some salt water from the reef and a old halogen lamp. Sure enough little buggers swimming around. no air. I seeded some into the refugium which has a bunch of other pods in there some quite big under magnification. Really a wonderful and insightful video sir !

[@DeezNuts-hf2xm]

@@Steves_fish technically yes they are cysts not eggs but eggs is much easier for people to understand “oh these hatch into brine shrimp”

[@ackielace]

Very good information. Now I know why all my baby brine shrimps died because I put too many in a tank. Thank you!

[@theprecisedeveloper4304]

Who is giving thumbs down to this channel? Baffled!!! Excellent video.

[@dienadel30]

Probably the brand of Sea Monkey's or any similar product therewith .Is there a way to produce eggs in the Cystic state as a hobbyist ? I would assume let parameters fall short ? Has anyone tried it ?

[@randallho3587]

Fairy Shrimps and triops that are jealous that their overrated cousin keeps appearing on YT

[@grantflippin7808]

My man dissin' iodized salt, I can't allow it

[@CrowntailHalfmoon]

Hi Mark Could you do a video on how you siphon out water when doing water changes and how do you mix and keep salt water for replacing the water after w/c?

[@ad-deen772]

Thank you Mark. My Bbs already hatched today.Really helpful to keep into adult. No need to speed money to buy an eggs anymore😄😄😄 *Love from Malaysia*

[@zedrem9876543210]

All the gear for my first hatchery arrived this morning, spent some time today Googling how to keep them once they're hatched and then this video comes out. Absolutely perfect timing. Cheers Mark.

[@deltoid4]

The man even makes brine shrimp look fun :) Need more room for tanks damnit....."sorry wife we have to throw the settee away" :) Smashing Video again

[@Ellery-USA]

Fyi- PPT is Parts per Thousand btw. No biggie since alot of people don't really care about these details. Great channel btw, keep up the great work!

[@Cgraseck]

I choked on that one as well.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Sorry guys your completely right. I'm getting old.😀👍

[@Cgraseck]

All good! Great vid. Cheers, Chris

[@georgiee00]

wow great video! im so glad i stumbled upon it. i was minutes away from adding a whole packet of eggs into a glass bowl

[@allegient539]

Best video I've seen on brine shrimp. Thanks for your help!

[@mimiru1995]

One batch every 3-6 days and havent been able to get past the Nauplii stage. When they start to die off i feed as many as i can get out to the fish and restart. I'm using two glass flower vases that are rounded, no corners. Temps vary, 70-81, heat pad. Mini air pump working, had it with an air stone, it was going a fair bit. Just now removed the stone and tied two loose knots. Now at a constant stream of bubbles with small gaps between, they follow single file. No issues hatching. After 3 or so days remove eggshells. Day two/three start sprinkling in a tiny bit of powder from Algae thins by top fin. Has wheat flour, spirulina, yeast and other additives. Going to try switching to straight spirulina powder now, but this food has had them last the longest. Some natural light, mostly a regular bulb thats lighting up the room. Keep the eggs in the freezer and do the 1 to 2 TBSPs of salt per vase. Just ordered a sponge filter to put on the end of it. When I think they need a water change i will switch to the other vase. I account for salt I did or did not wipe off from the sides when adding more. Add a half turkey baster of my aquarium water as well so that there are bacteria. (Am now trying it). And try to keep a similar temp when moving. Ideas? Thanks all x

[@sofanmax]

This is a highly informative video, I will definitely try this. Brine shrimp eggs are not cheap in my place so I may be able to cut cost with this method. Adult brine shrimp also looks really cool. Thank you very much!

[@ebygby]

The best fish keeping channel on You Tube...I have watched nearly every video you have on your channel info is great and educational just love it all....and the searching for wild foods and critters is great...just retired and have set up 2- 65 gallon freshwater second tank is everything from the lakes and rivers around me thanks to you Mark your the best thankyou

[@PullingYourStrings]

I tried to raise them up for my bigger fish, but I failed. I'll give it another try after watching this. I still have the eggs.

[@Kelly142877]

Thanks for all the time and quality information. I'm starting to breed betta for the first time ever. I need all the info I can get about cultures.

[@johnkendall2736]

Brilliant Mark hatch BBS all the time never taken it a stage further, will definitely give it a go. Love to you and yours

[@TJBentall]

Thanks so much. Doing this with my daughter - so fun. Thanks

[@pcpc9358]

thank you sir for the in depth procedure for what I wanted to do with the brine eggs I have and hoped to raise to feed betta. You hit every point needed to perfection. great job, thanks.

[@lisadouglas2963]

Is 28 litre tank ok. All se up for fish but want to do brine shrimp. Thanks for the video very interesting and informative, cheers

[@michaelmccoy8048]

So in the growout tank, in addition to a sponge filter, do I need aeration? And how often do I feed them? Great video!

[@SamuelLimawan]

Thanks for the video. It looks easy to grow them but I failed. Only one or two survived until adult. I use small aquarium to raise them using sea water about 27 ppt. Temp about 23 degree Celsius. I feed them green water everyday. Aerator and lamp 12 hours per day.

[@Jen.K]

This is what I've learned from reading comments etc. Don't use sea water, the salinity is too high. Most brine shrimp naturally come from brackish lakes, not the ocean. Don't use green fresh water, only green salt water. If you add fresh water you are changing the water parameters too much. Follow the method in these videos using salt solution and suggested foods and you may have better success. I just started my first hatching today, so I'm not an expert, this is what I've learned so far.

[@tradeincenterprises583]

This is very cool. I had some I forgot in a container and they grew into adults! Just checking to see if that was really the brine shrimp

[@missmaam792]

Wow! Thank you . . . just what I was looking for. I want to keep my Sea Monkeys as pets. I've purchased an independent batch of brine shrimp eggs so I can do a bigger tank. I just subscribed.

[@PotooBurd]

This is so informative!!! Fantastic reporting; I enjoy this kind of content!🌻🌼🐝

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lindahomerealtor5461]

Thank you for this! What frequency of feeding do you recommend, for each life stage?

[@jessajoy1124]

Super cool. Love the video! I’m still in the baby phase but hoping I’ll get to your stages eventually. Thanks a bunch.

[@EJFrostuk]

Really helpful, thank you. Particularly the tip about harvesting by putting a flashlight up to the bottle when it's dark so the shrimp swarm to it.

[@williamhansen1211]

I just tried this last week. Went well until my 4 yr old son threw the entire bag of baker yeast into the tub... :)

[@missmud2053]

My son would wake very early and sneak downstairs to the tank and fill it with soap or salt or anything he could get his little hands on

[@Hjyurdvc]

Hi Mark I failed a few times, mostly didn't care about temperature,salty water and food, watched again and again video think brine shrimps are amazing themselves,can grow it as aquarium critters, not only as food thank you 👍!!!

[@charlesbrodie2287]

i been doing brine shrimp for 23 years i do it slightly different same results you wont go far wrong with marks video i use salt hydrometer, salt solution with a little b/s 1.018 to 1.022 =26 to 30 pp. temp 80/82f 24 hours nice one mark..

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Thanks for watching Charles.

[@charlesbrodie2287]

@@MARKSAQUATICS welcome buddy

[@bugsandbeastsbugsandbeasts6992]

Great help thanks dude. Your puffer videos have got my little chaps thriving aswell. Bless

[@ginbim]

Every single video of yours is full of fascinating stuff with high quality camera work and great narration. Thank you Mark! You never fail to amaze us.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Thanks for the nice comment 😀👍

[@moelroby7906]

سلامى لك اخى الكريم و للاخ ابو محمد من مصر . شكرا على الشرح الوافي و ادام الله العراق العظيم

[@gb-wb6oc]

I'll give it a go...good work bro.

[@j.lroberts8093]

I didn't think raising brine would be difficult. I am subscribed to your channel because you explain things in a very simple way. I will give an update about the eggs I just put into the tank.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Thanks and welcome

[@NYGOLD]

Very interesting! I hatch brine shrimp all the time but I always feed them right away. If I ever raise some to adulthood I'll be sure to come back to this video. Thanks for posting this.

[@jasabasenara8124]

What a brilliant video. Many thanks. 👍🙏

[@jaredwood9039]

Cheers mark. Certainly will give this a go. Love your show.

[@kholloway9521]

I have a question about air flow at the different life stages... I’ve managed to hatch mine, and I’ve moved them into a slightly bigger tank with an air pump, but the air pump is pretty fast... if it’s too fast will it kill the babies?

[@Kelly142877]

Thanks for all the info. Just a question where I'm confused. If they get raised in the round bowl, what was up with the aquarium and sponge filter? Did I misunderstand which container to raise them up in? Thanks again 😊

[@jonisaksson]

I have the same question..

[@Fevertree37]

Finally the video I was looking for! Thanka

[@daveratledge]

Thank you sir. My Apistagrama are going to love this.

[@kzookid2051]

Great information! I've seen plenty of videos showing how to hatch the eggs, but very few on raising them beyond that stage. Thanks for the help; I'll be setting up a hatchery soon.

[@truereefkeeping6022]

By the way he says what he uses to feed them at 11:36 also it’s spiriluna powder

[@tariqshawa2064]

awesome channel, very informative. I'm going to start working on breeding tetras and brine shrimp soon

[@codingboy42]

"okay" the new drinking game...

[@scoty_.g1772]

🤢🤮

[@christophern7921]

I will try! But with wAter

[@cjvanstraeten1169]

Thank you seemonkeys..your great ...one question..how do they get the eggs what you buy the thing you start with....is it dried out..??

[@Sinserg]

This was extremely useful! thanks for sharing!

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MaikasCooking]

Great video Mark! I was looking for some information on how to raise brine shrimp for my baby newly hatched Cory Doras.

[@CrowntailHalfmoon]

Super excited Mark. Thank you so so much. Gr8 information Do you do any water changes and if the water evaporates do you top up with plain water? How often do you feed spirulina? When u mixup the spirulina in tube do you store in fridge? How long do you grow them up until you feed it? Do you restart culture or Its self sustaining after 2 weeks?

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

I normally make more water up and keep it in a 25 litre tank then do 10% water changes once a week. Replace evaporation with fresh dechlorinated water . Just cloud the water with food then once it clears that means they've eaten it. Then add more.

[@CrowntailHalfmoon]

@@MARKSAQUATICS When you siphon out the water do you throw back in the brineshrimps that was siphon out or do you use a net to siphon water from?

[@gully941]

Always enjoy your videos mate. Thanks!

[@sjaquariums4638]

Thank you for sharing! I will be giving it a try!

[@trcmustang]

Thanks for the informative video. Need to start hatching brine shrimp for the baby guppies. This setup looks pretty easy with minimal expense. Going to use this technique. Thanks again and take care.

[@LittleBroTeam-k6s]

this is very useful but what else food could I use.

[@megantraxler138]

I’ve been using marine salt like you use for a saltwater aquarium. Should I be using aquarium salt like you put in freshwater tanks for disease cures? I can’t keep these things alive more than 5 days to save my life ugh. Tank is cycled, I constantly clean the dead ones out, not adding very many. Not sure what I’ve done wrong.

[@ILOVEYOUHALFISH]

Do you think it’s possible to raise BBS, within the hatchery? By just adding yeast regularly?

[@jwoodard621]

Hi there what do you do with the rest of the brine shrimp in the red pot when the other to tanks are going thankyou for video (se london )😀

[@ronlafond5288]

Really helpful, Mark! Thank you!!!

[@kaycooper710]

Am I being thick, do we keep them in tank or when to go into another tank? What do you do with the rest? Do I need the hatchery, the 5 gallon and then those two bowls?

[@KC11ON]

Absolutely Wonderful, best explanation I've seen so far!

[@heavenkleinschmidt6340]

Funny thing I have brine shrimp for my biology class and they are just starting to mate in pairs!! So excited. I didn't use any bubble machines or anything I just stirred the water lightly several times a day. But I am now going to have a new colony!

[@lisasaxon7828]

Heaven Kleinschmidt did you add the salt to water etc etc...it’s gonna be my first time using brine shrimp eggs pack bought from LFS (my god the pack was expensive = $60 Aussie ) just about died when I realised. I am scared to try this even though mark is so informative and makes it look easier. I just don’t wanna stuff it up. Lol to mark,,,,I remember “sea monkeys” being advertised in the back pages of the MAD Magazine in the ol days.

[@heavenkleinschmidt6340]

@@lisasaxon7828 yes. 2 tablespoons of salt per quart of water! And I didn't add a pump i just used a stiring stick and stired it every couple of hours and even then i didn't stir that much and they reproduced massively! Feed them yeast just the active instant yeast you find in the grocery store they love it but only a pinch or it will get out of hand and they won't be able to eat it all! I think you should try raising them because they sure are beautiful to look at! You can see a brine shrimp video on my Instagram if you have one @beautifullyhappy5119 its farther back and i do have gecko pics on there to. I hope that helps and i hope you enjoy raising them!

[@annabellerose678]

This comment section is so British and it’s cracking me up. I’m just starting to get into raising BBS. My young betta is enjoying them :)

[@Val_Halla777]

Great video!. So helpful. One question I was hoping to learn while watching this was how many days from hatch to adult size typically?

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

nauplii grow rapidly, reaching adulthood around in 3 weeks. 😀👍

[@Val_Halla777]

@@MARKSAQUATICS Wow yes that’s pretty quick. Awesome I’ll be giving this a go with latest batch. Really appreciated!👍 🙏

[@danialphaomega]

Question? 1. When they hatch how soon do you feed them? 2. Do they need an air circulation? 3. Temperature range? Any help will be appreciated Thank you.

[@Zaagvis]

10:10 9:33

[@expatlivinginthephilippine455]

Thanks for the video it was very informative for this beginner. Manchester lad living in the Philippines

[@robpieterse2538]

Thanks, this is extremely helpful. Only thing I´m not sure of, is which filter I can use. At 9:20 You talk about a sponge filter which you went to show, but then that wasn´t in the tank. So I´m not sure what type and power filter to use there? Thanks in advance for your help.

[@simondm96]

Just an air-driven one, should be easy enough to find

[@graymanmedia]

I've been waiting for this video for a while.

[@pofy6478]

the one i'm worried is maintaining the salinity of the water, aside from 1 tablespoon salt per 1 liter of water, how do i know when to change the water without those gadgets to check. great channel and videos, subscribed.

[@dalethdelsalto3099]

HI Mark. I learn a lot about this video. Thanks!. I have a couple of questions. A) After putting aside the newly hatch brine shrimp to their new tank to grow. How many days do you wait to separate them again into a new container? B) Do you allow the light to be 24/7 over them? C) I have a 100wats light. Is this too strong? D) Could you please do a video showing how you clean your brine shrimp tanks and how often? Thank you in advance.

[@deadmeme8973]

The wattage on your grow light should depend on water volume. 25 watts is sufficient for a 10 gallon tank, 100 should work for 20-50 and sometimes up. The strong light can overheat the tank or stress adult brine shrimp, but that's it, it "can". I would honestly suggest something like a regular light bulb, 10-15 watts. This will help grow algae without frying it. you mainly want light to induce hatching, this is more important with dry cysts you buy at the fish store. You dont need 24/7 light after hatching, and you will never need to keep it on 24/7 unless the whole culture dies off and you need to dry out and rehydrate resting eggs. Since all branchiopods, from brine shrimp to fairy shrimp to triops, prefer live algae and biofilm, you'll want to have less than 16 light hours a day to avoid bleaching edible algae like chlorella and spirulina. you never need to clean the tank in any way, unless to remove salt deposits or big clumps of biofilm. to clean salt spray, add water until it covers the salt deposits and gently apply a straight razor to the glass after waiting for a few minutes. Be careful not to scratch the glass, especially if its curved. as for biofilm or algae overgrowth, you can just gently scoop it up.

[@thethingwithfins]

Very lovely video. Been wanting to grow some up in a spare tiny tank to keep as pets.

[@badejong]

Great video! Never seen the stages of brine shrimps. Thank you.

[@DPW55]

Great bunch of info ,👍😉

[@FusionDeveloper]

Looks like you should add airline check valves, which makes it so when the air shuts off, it doesn't fill the air hose with water, they are between $1-$2 USD each.

[@mattgray7027]

There is no need if the pump is higher than the water level 👍

[@FordFanette47]

Very good tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Thanks for watching. 😀👍

[@gemmamaril4672]

First viewing MARK'S nice one happy viewing 😊

[@kirkb2665]

Would hermit crab saltwater that they sell at pet stores work or is the salinity wrong?

[@miti13439]

Do you have to do the bottles can you just get a container and can you use Fiji water for them and regular salt

[@cloudyair7395]

Wow that so amazing. I rlly wanna try this. I see some red and others white. Could you tell me how you got some adults different colours ????😊😄

[@wotrulke5868]

Fasaniting stuff 👍🏼 the adults look like little Allen's 👽

[@ShadowKa]

Yes

[@andrewgriffiths7763]

Brilliant video as always Mark Love it

[@martinsteele5171]

Hi i am trying to raise brine to adulthood but they don't seem to be making much progress they have been in the tank.for 5/6 weeks now and are only a little bigger than when they went in i am feeding them on spirulina and the sg is 1024 where am i going wrong. Thanks for the excellent work.

[@mattgray7027]

Hey Mark, following your awesome instructions, my BS are now 8 days old, is it normal for them to seem less active at this stage? (still constantly moving but noticeably slower) thanks.

[@JeremyAguiar-nf6ym]

That was awesome I feel like there was some pointers left out because I know I’m going to fail at it but great video I really enjoyed it

[@LloydReyneke]

Excellent videos with so much information, thank you, such a great help

[@fishmanc5357]

Thanks for this one mark 👊🏻🙌🏼 We bought official branded sea monkeys for the kids. Put the little tank in my boys room next morning they had been knocked all over the floor... 🙄🤣 I have fish tanks anyway and had always fancied hatching my own and feeding live food so I bought a puch of brine shrimp eggs on amazon, hatched a million eggs, fed majority but I want to raise a few for the kids in a little 14 litre tank. Thanks for the step by step guide mate 😁

[@jwoodard621]

How much salt to put into grow out tank please thats what i stuck on thankyou mark 😀

[@doifhg]

this was very informative

[@conniehon823]

Hi Mark great video. But I’m getting some dead brine shrimp from Day 3. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. May I know the TDS reading of your water that you were bringing them on in? Also do you never turn the light off? Thanks

[@tariqshawa2064]

Mike, did you say if you were filtering the water here??

[@-gordozian-2611]

Damn awesome video Mark. Just the information I was looking for, thanks heaps

[@florsanchez9299]

Hi! thx for the great video! How often do you feed them with spirulina to get the adults? how do you know the amount of spirulina?

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Just add enough to turn the water light green. When it goes clear again just add more as they've eaten it.

[@florsanchez9299]

@@MARKSAQUATICS thx a lot! 😘

[@gd.ritter]

how do you do a water change in their grow tank without sucking them up with it?

[@kategonzalezmorgan7208]

To do a water change, could you just pour the water through a brine shrimp net and then put the shrimp in the net into freshly mixed up salt water?

[@Lsthnbrd]

This is fantastic stuff. I’m looking into starting my own hatchery for brine shrimp to feed my reef tank. Instead of using a filter, would doing weekly water changes be enough to keep the adult tank going?

[@amandaharris6639]

Do you have to move the babies to a new tank after they hatch?

[@ipurcell1]

Perfect tutorial 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@mattfish9]

, Mark , new at this , please help , i purchased the hatchery and its no problem getting them hatched , i started to transfer them to a 5 gal tank , i see what you mean by just a small amount at a time , i have heater ,light , box filter , and keeping them at salinity 10.26 , my question is at what point do i start to feed spirulina , do i give them a little time and let the light source serve as a food source ? Or start to feed newly hatched right away ?