umfalcon Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 Hello everyone, I am about to get a baby brine shrimp (bbs) hatchery going and I have a question about rinsing them once they hatch. I live in an area with tap water containing 1 to 2 parts per million chlorine. Would my fish suffer adverse affects from eating bbs rinsed in tap water containing said amounts of chlorine? Should I rinse the bbs in water pulled from one of my tanks to avoid any chlorine issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonske Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 If you rinse and drain the BBS, the amount of chlorine in them will be negligible. I always rinse mine in tap water. (I put them into a small container with non-chlorinated drinking water after rinsing because I find the "diluted" BBS easier to dose. And drinking water eliminates the chlorine worries.) Of course, you can use your tank water for rinsing if you don't mind the extra work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamTill Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 What are you feeding? You might not need to rinse at all. I just strained through a brine shrimp net and fed, and the tiny amounts of salt never affected anything I fed. To your actual question, no that amount of chlorine in a rinse shouldn’t affect anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 I don't rinse my baby brine shrimp. I believe the residual salts are beneficial to fish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 We hatch a small amount of Artemia daily in 1x liter hatchery (we run two, and alternate days). We turn off the air, let the settle towards light or bottom, draw out with a turkey baster, then squirt through a brine shrimp net back into the hatchery. Then we dunk the netted bbs into a 1/2 gal. Lee’s large specimen container filled with tap water. Then, set by a light, wait for the bbs to congregate by the light, and draw out with a 10-ml. syringe from WalMart with airline tubing on the end. As Daniel says, it may not matter. However, if you’re feeding certain fish / fry, the increase of conductivity via salinity can eventually pose some problems when fish (or fry) are kept in very tight quarters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 I don't rinse mine, but most water is filtered out through the sieve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tolstoy21 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 I rinse mine. Just a habit. But sometimes I don’t if I’m lazy or in a hurry You could always rinse them in tank water unless you have a too many tanks to feed or don’t want to cross contaminate something from one tank to the next. id imagine unless your dumping like 2 quarts of brine into a 20 gallon tank 2x a day, you’ll be fine. A turkey baster or so full will probably have no impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 I don't rinse mine. If you have plants, the salt is good for them. Regardless, no reason to rinse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 <--- Non-rinser and sometimes when feeling froggy will dump BBS and their hatching water into the aquariums being fed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Cory Posted December 17, 2020 Administrators Share Posted December 17, 2020 I feed the brine shrimp with hatching water. But I also have auto water change system and lots of plants that want to use the minerals from the salt, and ammonia that comes with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jollypop4321 Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 I do it both ways. That I’m aware and f I have not run into problems regarding this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Yep, I also just pipette the bbs out of the hatchery and squirt it directly in my grow out tank. I have lots of floating plants and it’s not heavily stocked. Maybe one day I’ll run into problems but so far so good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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