Razberry910

Yes, snails and shrimp.

these crawly things in my tanks. should I be concerned?

I'm not shipping quite yet. I'm just bagging for a local auction. standard plastic bags, I don't have oxygen just air. I imagine the longest the fish would be in bags is around 12-14 hours.

Has anyone used little cubes of Acurel amonia reducing pads for bagged fish and shrimp when shipping or for auctions? I think this is the correct product but I want to make sure.

Just a large sponge filter. water temps between 58-79 throughout the summer.

I have a trio of Trout Goodeid that lived outside all summer in a 300 gallon pond with tons of plants, cherry shrimp, and snails. I pulled them today and drained the pond no baby/juvenile goodeids. I suspect they are all females. I took pictures of each. please help me sex them.

Has anyone delt with waternet algae before? Several of my summer totes have a large amount of it. I've found live and dead fry/juviles stuck in it this summer. I'll attach pics. This Algae makes a perfect little net in the water. I did manually remove some today freeing little fish as I pulled it out. According some research from Tennessee it forms in High alkaline ponds. I did add a bit of crushed coral to the totes this year I'm not sure if that would make much difference.

Interesting. These are listed as non-hatching I could always experiment with hatching them.

I have Decapsulated brine shrimp eggs from another site(Sorry Cory). The directions say to rehydrate them and then feed them to marine or freshwater fish. I only have fresh water tanks. Is there any need to rehydrate them? I imagine they will rehydrate in the tank just fine. Maybe fish eat them dry and then the food hydrates would that be bad? Thanks!

Thank you all for the assistance. I ultimately switched back to Coop brine shrimp eggs and I'm back to hatching a batch every other day. (I don't heat the hatcher so it hangs around 70f)

Thanks I'll try this tommorow

Maybe it's this one? https://www.amazon.com/MEIMEI-Collect-Artemia-Copepod-Hatchery/dp/B092TPH9QL/ref=sxin_16_pa_sp_search_thematic_sspa?content-id=amzn1.sym.ea7393e3-de5f-4d19-84a5-8c5fb5c68d5f%3Aamzn1.sym.ea7393e3-de5f-4d19-84a5-8c5fb5c68d5f&crid=2O65YGN4KJFL3&cv_ct_cx=brine+shrimp+sieve&keywords=brine+shrimp+sieve&pd_rd_i=B092TPH9QL&pd_rd_r=3b9ba6fa-0152-45f5-af64-17a686d95ab7&pd_rd_w=eL1jl&pd_rd_wg=T8jjt&pf_rd_p=ea7393e3-de5f-4d19-84a5-8c5fb5c68d5f&pf_rd_r=9AW1MPZZ4X7DECD23C11&qid=1682971627&sbo=RZvfv%2F%2FHxDF%2BO5021pAnSA%3D%3D&sprefix=brine+shrimp+seive%2Caps%2C215&sr=1-3-2b34d040-5c83-4b7f-ba01-15975dfb8828-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzRVVDUVZONzlXQzM2JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNTQ0MDc2SlFYM1lCMFpYNVYmZW5jcnlwdGVkQWRJZD1BMDI2OTc5OTM1RzVDOEtaNTJBTUEmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9zZWFyY2hfdGhlbWF0aWMmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl Good to know I stuck a piece of airline tubing into the bottom spout but a larger diameter tube would be nice.

Does each sieve/net in that set have different size holes? Your harvest process is almost identical to mine but the water/shrimp mixture isn't flowing through my sieve.

Hi all, I'm using the coop brine shrimp eggs and the standard square sieve from BSD. The water takes forever to drain through the sieve it seems the mesh holes are too small/fine. I believe the mesh is 120micron. Does anyone use a different sieve that has slightly bigger holes? Maybe Coop is looking to make one? Thanks

About a year ago I won a plant at the local auction. if I recall I got it for a couple dollars. the plant was a tissue culture and was a donation from a Florida based nursey. the plant has done awesome providing hiding spots for shrimp and the snails don't eat it. today I pulled it out and transplanted about a third of the plant to a different tank. can anyone help identify from the attached pictures? Thank you

one of our Blued lemon plecos seems to have a fin issue. A while back we noticed a slight pink/red spot on the tip of its side fins. today I noticed there seems to be a fin issue. see attached pics. any help appreciated 20 gal. 75 degrees other tank mates similar sized lemon pleco( I believe both girls), 5 juvenile green plecos, black shrimp

Hello everyone. I have a small tank with male and female bristle nose plecos both around 4 inch in length in a tank with some black guppies, snails, and baby plecos about 2-3 months old. When we first got the male and introduced him to the tank the pleco breed within a week and we have like 100 baby plecos swimming around growing. Soon I'll have a 40 breeder open to house the plecos. Anyway, yesterday the plecos breed outside the cave and left giant egg piles. The male doesn't seem to be caring for them. Should I remove them, leave them, put them in a breeder box? Any ideas why they might have laid outside the caves? Maybe they need a bigger cave?

I tried the baking soda on one batch. I'll try again but this time I'll add baking soda to water and let it bubble for a day then check the PH level. Once I have the desired amount which I think is 8.0 I'll add salt and eggs and let em bubble for 24-48 hrs.

A quick update I handed out three samples of the XXX eggs to members of my fish club that hatch eggs on a regular basis. I received a text and picture that the XXX eggs hatched out just fine. I'll try getting my water from another source as my well water can run a bit acidic. Even if I can figure out the correct steps for the XXX brand I think I'll be switching back to Coop as they worked for me and were simple. Since the XXX brand eggs are good I feel I can donate them to the club auction.

thanks. I've agitated them pretty well. I've also tried heating to 82. and the last attempt room temp ~72 with salt add a half a teaspoon of baking soda. 48 hours later. still a sad hatch. I'll email the company maybe there's a bad lot or at least return thet hree un opened cans.

Thanks Cory. I just told my wife "speaking of Cory he just commented to this post". I appreciate all the content you've put out and going into the third year of my own business (totally not fish related) I've adopted the philosophy to offer top notch work and charge accordingly.

Sounds just like my experience

I'm 99% sure XXX brand comes from salt lake. As for the Co-op eggs I don't know

90%

I posted this elsewhere on the internet and I didn't get any response maybe I'll find help here. Also this isn't supposed to be an Ad for Co-op eggs and I'll remove the name of the competitor. I had been using Aquarium Co-op brine shrimp eggs(I'll simply call them eggs from here on out). I assumed co-op was simply sourcing its eggs from the same place and adding its name and logo. Once I ran out of coop eggs I ordered several cans of premium eggs from XXX. I keep the unused can in the freezer and the current can in the refrigerator. My hatcher is the ziss hatcher, API aquarium salt, no heater water is around 70-72. With the coop eggs. I would add two tablespoons of salt and one tablespoon of eggs and let it tumble for about 48 hours then harvest. The egg shells would float to the top and be rather dark. The shrimp would be in the bottom and mid-water and harvest easily. The harvested shrimp would make a bright orange slurry. All the fish loved them I could watch the BBS wiggle in the water until a fish ate them. The eggshells would make a mess of whatever they touched when cleaning the hatcher. If I rinsed the hatcher in the tub a fine layer of shells would need to be cleaned up. On to the XXX eggs. At first, I tried the same ratio. 2 tablespoons salt one tablespoon egg. This made a hot mess I assume way to many eggs. So I looked up the XXX directions. In my setup, it called for just over 3 tablespoons of salt and two small scoops of eggs. I've tried this for a week or so letting the eggs go for 24 hours checking their status and then letting them go for a total of 36-48 hatch time. When I turn off the bubbler and let everything settle very few eggs seem to be at the top. A layer of brownish/orange coats the bottom of the hatcher. I can see brine shrimp wiggling with a light in the hatcher but they seem few and very small. I'm ok with them being small but I think most of the eggs aren't hatching. I try to draw the shrimp down with light then harvest, rinse, and feed. The harvested egg/shrimp mixture seems to be brownish orange vs bright orange. When I add them to a tank the fish seem excited and I think they are eating shrimp and unhatched eggs. Once the BBS hit the tanks I don't notice and wiggling they just look like brown/orange dots floating around. I watched several YouTube videos comparing the two brands. My XXX hatches never look like the ones from the YouTube video. Which makes me wonder if I'm doing something wrong. I have a ton of XXX eggs so I'm hoping to get this figured out. I can add pictures in a few days if that helps. I checked my PH at the end of a hatching and it's around 8.0 I also placed a small heater in the hatcher set to 82. I checked the eggs at ~26 hours and they still seemed to mostly unhatched and sink to the bottom. I let the hatcher go another 12 hours and still the same result. So I have $200 worth of brine shrimp eggs from XXX that aren't hatching for me. I might contact XXX and see if they have any ideas. I might try selling my XXX cans to my local club. I imagine I'll be going back to the Co-op eggs which have worked great I thought I could save a bit of money but that didn't work out. If anyone could give me some advice I'd appreciate it.