I Need Help I Poured Way Too Many Brine Shrimp Eggs In My Tank!!!!!!! - MyFishTank.Net Freshwater Saltwater Aquarium Fish Forum

PufferCollector · 07-23-2003, 06:05 PM

I Need Help Are MY Fish Going To Die???????PLEASE ANSWER!!!!!!!!!!I Have Two Green Spotted Puffers And Two Dwarf Puffers In My Tank.

CoNMaN · 07-23-2003, 06:13 PM

i dont think so, the puffs will have a feast, i wouldnt feed them for awhile once they eat them.

why cant you scoop out the eggs?

sailfinmolly · 07-23-2003, 06:15 PM

You'll want to vacume them out with your gravel cleaner.

I'm curious if you dumped one of those brime shrimp packs into your tank or if you hatched them and just put too many in.

if it was a pak that you dumped in, that means you've added some salt to your tank probably not a big deal.

next time though hatch your shrimp first!

good luck
sailfin

PufferCollector · 07-23-2003, 06:17 PM

Thanks Guys Iwas Pretty Worried For Alittle While So If I Put Salt In It Will Go Away???And Conman Do You Have AIM???

FroggyFox · 07-23-2003, 06:28 PM

No...salt won't go away except through water changes. It shouldn't hurt the fish though, assuming you didn't put too much in.

I doubt that the brine shrimp will hatch in the tank w/o hatching in the salty warm water that those packages are meant to create. Petsmart has a great little thing that you can get for like 9 bucks that has helped me

PufferCollector · 07-23-2003, 06:29 PM

What Is It???

sailfinmolly · 07-23-2003, 06:52 PM

Hunk of junk? brine hatcher and feeder

try that if that doesn't work do a search on this site, and use the phrase "hunk of junk"

I posted it a while ago, and didn't know if it was good or not, apparently no one else does either

FroggyFox · 07-23-2003, 07:09 PM

Oops...sorry

I guess that was a little vague of me! (Sailfinmolly - at the time you posted that I knew nothing about brine shrimp...I think if set up correctly it could work)

The thing I got from petsmart is this little black box. I'm sure you could make one and there are DIY shrimp setups you can find online...but for someone like me this is great, pre made not expensive, no hassle

You put the premixed package of eggs and salt into the black box...add water and stir well (until the salt dissolves) then you add the lid. The lid has a circle in the top where you put a little inverted jar. The jar has freshwater in it and has a hole in the lid. The brine shrimp hatch down below in the warm water and then they are attracted by the light through the hole into the collection jar in the top. Since freshwater is lighter than saltwater the two stay seperate and you dont have to mess with netting/rinsing the shrimp. You just take the jar, open up the lid and pour it into the tank and then refill the container and put it back upside down and collect some more. They're TINY! lol but the fish love them. I think by buying the eggs and salt seperately and finding how many eggs you need to put in there you could get a better yield (how many actually hatch) than what you get from the premixed packages...but hey, lol it has worked great for me. I'm on my 6th package right now, going home to feed the little guys as soon as I get off of this dang computer! lol

beaver8888 · 07-25-2003, 10:15 PM

ya theyll be alset

luvmygobies · 07-31-2003, 10:54 AM

I know this probably is really dumb but do ya'll turn off your filters whenever you put brine shrimp in? I'm wondering that if I put in live ones they'll get sucked up before my puffers can get them.