Quick questio re: Feeding adult apistos baby brine shrimp

[davidjp1982]

Just a quick question and sorry to sound dumb but I would like to do things right. After a lot of reading online I see that most successful apisto keepers are feeding their fish on a diet of either exclusively or predominately baby brine shrimp. I have a bottle hatchery setup and can turn around a good amount of brine shrimp every 24 hours which I want to split between my community tank housing Apisto C. Orange flash pair and corys / neons and also to feed my cory fry in my 10 gallon.

My question is simply this - how much BBS is recommended to feed at one time? I can imagine this is hard to judge as the BBS disperse so quickly in the water but I have read that they can decompose and cause bacterial problems rather quickly if left uneaten?

 

[davidjp1982]

Also the eggs that I am using at the moment are pretty poor (budget ebay purchase) and are taking 48 hours to hatch. Is it true that BBS lose their nutritional value after 8 hours? If this is the case am I wasting my time feeding them on the second day before the new batch hatches?

 

[Apistomaster]

Artemia nauplii are at their most nutritious immediately after hatching but slightly older nauplii are still a good food.