Tips for growing/harvesting baby brine shrimp needed

Mmathis

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I've been growing BBS to feed my fry. I have the square bases that you screw a 2L soda bottle on.

I've tried to read up on this, as well as watch videos, but it's pretty simple to do. Still......

  1. How do you know when to stop draining from the bottle when harvesting them? I cover the bottle and have a light at the neck area so they'll accumulate down there, but I never know if I'm getting them all -- and I hate to stop too soon 'cause I don't want to waste the stragglers, but also don't want to catch the casings & unhatched eggs.
  2. And then, I still end up with tons of crud on the bottom of the fry tank afterwards. So I must be getting a lot of the casings anyway.
  3. Are there tricks for improving the hatch rate?
 

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