raise brine shrimp in a grow out tank

Originally Posted by AbbeysDad

What? No. To hatch brine shrimp you add about a teaspoon of brine shrimp eggs to a gallon of warm salt water and aerate. In about 24 hours they hatch. They are attracted to light, so a light is setup and aeration stopped and shrimp mass to the light where they can be more easily siphoned into a (fine) brine shrimp net. There are always stragglers and late (hatch) bloomers that end up outside in the tubs.
Make sense now?

Originally Posted by AbbeysDad

As for feeding, in addition to algae, brewers yeast works as well as Artemia Brine Food.

Originally Posted by zof

wouldn't just a food grade spirulina work, and much cheaper since they sell it as a food additive? Or are there other nutrients the spirulina is missing?