Anyone tried breeding those small unique looking shrimps before?
yes, they are the same..dont waste time breeding them..they are fish food..:bsmilie:
Haha I want to breed for fun. Where can I buy them? Freshwater type. And their food.
Some aquarium shops sell them (freshly hatched) in bags....hundreds of them in a bag for a few bucks. Brine Shrimps are juvenile/small fish food and Brine Shrimps require brackish water not fresh water. Those in Toys 'r' Us are over-priced. You can buy the Brine Shrimp eggs from most aquarium shops and it costs only a few bucks for a small bottle which contains thousands of eggs.
Hatching Brine Shrimps
They eat micro-algae, but will also eat yeast, wheat flour, soybean powder, or egg yolk, as quoted from wikipedia.
The only reason people rear them is to feed their fish. They hatch by the 100s and have a rather short life span. Getting them to hatch is easy, it's rearing them to adulthood that's a bit challenging.
Wow sea monkeys! I heard they can have families, form communities and play! Just like the picture in the box! Oh look there's the mom holding a SM baby! wow! awesome...
That's what I used to think when I was young, got disappointed though. Cheaper to rear mosquito larvae, and at the end of it, they can fly too!
Wow sea monkeys! I heard they can have families, form communities and play! Just like the picture in the box! Oh look there's the mom holding a SM baby! wow! awesome...
That's what I used to think when I was young, got disappointed though. Cheaper to rear mosquito larvae, and at the end of it, they can fly too!
How long is their lifespan?