I picked up a tip a while back that I finally tried this summer. A fellow hobbyist told me that he discards his brine shrimp hatch water into a glass container outside. The shrimp grow out and you get various sizes.
I filled a 12" cube tank with roughly 3-4 gallons of salt water and then added my waste brine shrimp water. I used waste water from my reef tank. I have been dumping my brine shrimp hatchery water outside for several weeks now and the tank is full of various sized shrimp. I have not added any kind of food. There is algae covering the glass walls and a few bugs/leaves make it into the tank.
If you do not have a ton of fish to feed, this is a neat little trick to avoid having to hatch brine shrimp daily. I am using the shrimp to feed killifish so it does not take much.
I'm thinking about trying a powdered algae to feed and increasing the container size.
Just wanted to share this.
I filled a 12" cube tank with roughly 3-4 gallons of salt water and then added my waste brine shrimp water. I used waste water from my reef tank. I have been dumping my brine shrimp hatchery water outside for several weeks now and the tank is full of various sized shrimp. I have not added any kind of food. There is algae covering the glass walls and a few bugs/leaves make it into the tank.
If you do not have a ton of fish to feed, this is a neat little trick to avoid having to hatch brine shrimp daily. I am using the shrimp to feed killifish so it does not take much.
I'm thinking about trying a powdered algae to feed and increasing the container size.
Just wanted to share this.