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Hey Ken,
The only kind of gut loading I have done is with baby and adult live brine. I use Selcon occasionally, but I haven't been careful enough to figure out whether it has any noticable effect. The brine seem to like it and I would expect that the extra vitamins couldn't hurt the fish. I am pretty sure, though, that you have to feed fairly soon after the process or the shrimp loose the additional resources and won't have any additional benefit for your fish.
Neil
When I was growing out brine fairly regularly for my reef I was using Marine Zoe. I don't know if this made any difference for the fish or coral. I was thinking of doing it for my baby checkerboards.
i think the best part of a bbs is the yolk sac. after that the nutritional value goes way down. feed them in the first 12 hours and you will be doing the best apparently.