After the brine shrimp hatch

[Robin]

I finally feel like I'm doing a reasonable job of hatching brine shrimp. This last hatch has a pretty good hatch rate, considering these eggs have been in the fridge/freezer for quite some time. I'd say 80%? I'll muddle a long with them until their gone.

My question is, how are you adding them to the tank? Once they go through the sieve and they're washed off, if you do that, do you wave the sieve in the tank? Do you have some standby tank water and add them to that and then use a pipette to add them to the tank?

If you freeze the left over do you use tank water or plain tap water?

Everyone shows how to hatch the brine shrimp but they don't explain how they go from there. I'd love to hear people's process.

[Jon G]

I keep them in a small Tupperware with a little tank water and store them in the fridge. I feed it all out in 24 hrs. 

[Robin]

Just now, Jon G said:

I keep them in a small Tupperware with a little tank water and store them in the fridge. I feed it all out in 24 hrs. 

They stay alive in the fridge? Huh. I like that idea of feeding everything out in 24hrs.

[Jon G]

I'd say 75% stay alive for most of the day.  You could also add aquarium salt to the container of tank water and store them in that. They will stay alive for 48 hrs that way. Roughly 1/4 teaspoon of salt in like 2 oz of water. 

[Bill Smith]

I make a fresh salt water mix on the same day I start my hatchery and store it in a spare bottle.I rinse the hatched shrimp in RO water and then place them in a 1-inch-tall tupperware with wide surface area, in the fresh saltwater I made. The tupperware container has an air hole poked in the lid, but it's otherwise covered and stored in the fridge.

My bbs stay alive for the better part of a week.

More lately, I've been freezing them immediately to try to preserve maximum nutrition and try to get some of the extra protein in those yolk sacs!

[TheDukeAnumber1]

I keep a spray bottle of distilled water for this purpose. Once the bbs are rinsed I flip over the sieve over a container and spray the underside of the sieve until all the bbs are out and the sieve is clean then I immediately feed it out. I have hard water and using distilled in my spray bottle has kept my sieve clean and buildup free.