But anyways we had a little mini brine shrimp hatchery with a small bottle because it was the only one we could find on such short notice. I did say in my last post that the Archer Farms electrolyte-infused water was the best water bottle to use for your own diy brine shrimp hatchery.
You should get two sections (the bottom half and the top half) and you just insert the top half upside down in to the bottom half and it should "click" or interlock with each other because the top half has another ridge. This is why I love this bottle.
Now you also need to get an air pump and some airline tubing. You can easily get some off of ebay/amazon, petsmart/petco, or a local fish store. You want to make sure the end that goes into the bottle reaches all the way to the bottle cap for maximum tumbling of the bring shrimp eggs. When you make the mixture, put in some warm water, some salt and brine shrimp eggs. We also place this bottle in a bigger "bucket" with heated water because we find that they hatch much faster in heated water. Therefore, if you're putting this diy brine shrimp hatchery in another bucket like we did, you want to cut some holes in the bottom like we did here.
This allows the bottle to go into the bucket of water without floating and toppling over. Think of it like a boat on water. If the boat has no holes, it won't sink. In this case we do need it to "sink" so it stays stable.
Now here are some updates on our babies!
This one was taken 2 days ago.
This was taken today. Look how big they've already gotten and they're only a week old! In this picture, he's looking at a brine shrimp to eat! :)
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