Brine Shrimp Hatchery Dish (Eggs sold separately.)

Brine Shrimp works great! Hatches more shrimp than you'd expect. Very easy and foolproof to use. I place mine on a shelf under a light, shrimp hatch in less than 24 hrs, and I'm able to harvest for 3-4 days. Easy to clean as well. Important to make sure hatchery is level. Received superb customer service from Victoria at Brine Shrimp Direct - excelled in every way!

This works really well. Easy to set up and clean. Eggs hatch quickly and all the shrimp congregate in the middle where you can use the dropper to get a few, or lift them all out with mesh strainer. It's a great system. No air needed. No messy clean up. You get the shrimp easily, with no eggshells.

Finally wanted to try my hand at baby brine shrimp for my chili rasboras/scarlet badis. This kit is incredibly easy and works as advertised! What I did: prepare 1 quart of water (4 cups), added a drop of dechloronator. Added just under 2 tablespoons of API Aquarium Salt (for freshwater) and stirred well until the salt was dissolved. Assemble the dish as shown in the video, pour water into the dish to the fill line, added a scoop of eggs to outer area. Cover and added a light right above it, which helped heat the water to about 74 degrees (I think they hatch best over 70 degrees). A handful began hatching early, around 18 hours in. A ton more began to hatch around the 24-36 hour range. I had multiple scoops ton feed my tank, if anything I overfed the tank over the next couple of days. Even the Pygmy corys, kuhli loaches, and amano shrimp munched on the ones that ended up the bottom. I am now at the 72 hour mark and still have shrimp hatching. Thinking I’ll gorge the tank and then fast for a day or two while I prep the next batch. The only downside is that I think the inhabitants won’t want to go back to dry foods after this! Very happy with how this worked out. Later edited to add: One issue I found is that I was losing a lot of the baby brine shrimp through the screen, they were just too small and I was ending up with of lot wasted. The solution? Coffee filters! Using part of a coffee filter, I pick up the scoop and let it drain its water right onto a piece of coffee filter above the hole in the dish. Then I place this filter paper into the water to get the BBS off it. Also, I recommend using a pipette to suck up the BBS that get caught under the scoop, and that die around the rings in the bottom. Then drip this pipette onto the coffee filter. Way less waste than before.

I have 2 of these, that little white cup with the netting will clog eventually and can not be cleaned by any ways I have seen. Also if you have a batch of Angelfish fry, (they can lay up to 300 eggs at a time) I feel you should go more industrial as I have found the 2 I have can not keep up with their appetites. I did give this a 5 star earlier, then the netting started to clog...nothing passes thru it now, it can not be swapped out or cleaned (tried soaking in vinegar and massaging, drying then scraping...nada) So unless I get, or make a replacement net for this ... its useless and Its heading to the can. Easy and fun while it lasted however.

This is a no brainer for hatching BBS. I set it up around 6pm at night. Woke up the next morning to a TON of shrimp swimming around the center. I used a seedling heat matt underneath and a grow light clipped to the side of the counter and had huge success. This will be good for feeding BBS to my community tank which already went bonkers over this food item. Next step is growing them out to adults in a bucket. Will be fun to experiment with them at all stages of development.

I run two of these hatcheries through spring and summer to feed my Medaka (rice fish) fry. I keep both dishes warm on a seedling warming mat, and under a small gooseneck desk lamp that adds a bit of warmth as well as a strong light to attract the newly hatched shrimp to the center basket. I stagger seeding each hatchery every other day or two. That way I have a consistent supply of live brine shrimp to feed my fry. I use aquarium salt weighed out on a scale, and then dissolved into hot water. I let the salt water cool before adding to the hatchery, then I leave it to warm on the seedling mat (set on low for mine) for a bit before adding my brine shrimp eggs. For the eggs, I’ve had great success with those I’ve ordered from aquarium Co-op. Just keep the unhatched eggs cool and out of the sun. I rinse the shrimp off, still in the tiny basket, by dipping the basket into a small cup of filtered water. Once you have done this a few times, it becomes a super easy routine. The bowls do not take up that much space and are fairly inconspicuous, unlike most of the giant systems out there. As long as you rinse the bowls well, I use my garden hose, before each new batch of eggs, there should be very little to no smell. This is simply, the best option I have found on the market for my needs. If you are running an entire fish room this may not be a big enough system, but for raising a one or two hundred Medaka fry in garden ponds, two of these do the trick.

Works great very easy 10 out of 10

originally i was going to return this lol since i figured its better to hatch with other methods. after multiple fails with other methods, i just came back to this dish because it just works... the fact it filters out all the shells perfectly is the best part. no nonsense, no fussing with stupid nets or whatever. the downside is this method is less efficient, but id rather deal with this method and not deal with shells.

Being a first time mum to 1000’s of Axolotl’s I found it easy to make brine shrimp with one of these

Been doing research on this where air pump and a heater are always part of the steps. Found this product and gave it a try. I have it in my basement, which is below ground with a room temperature of 18c-19c. I did a batch and within 48 hours, had brine shrimp swimming towards the middle hole (attracted to the light). Didn't have to use a heater and air pump at all. Just this tray and the white circular attachment does wonders. No need to drain the saltwater either before feeding. Overall very clean this setup. Highly recommended. The brine shirmp eggs I used were from Seapora

Excelente

Very ingenious principle to hatch bbs. It works very well but obviously at a very low hatching rate vs the traditional DYI hatching with heater and bubbler

Sirve para cuando tienes prisa pero por el precio creo que bien podrías comprar un oxigenador y la botella para eclosionar al máximo la artemia