Brine Shrimp Hatchery Dish (Eggs Sold Separately.)

What a fun little device, clever, works well and here’s what I did. 4 cups of water 5 teaspoons salt under a desk lamp and water temp in the low 70’s. At 30 hours. There was enough to feed the fish a little bit. But then it really starts producingEnough to coat the bottom of the dipper strainer cup pink every hour or so. For 72 hours maybe more it does this.Rinse and repeat.If you have 80 degrees you do get more rapid release/grow/production rate -Total shrimp production- 2 teaspoons? Or soAnd the most important part is the guppies are growing like I gave them steroids. They almost grow in front of your eyes. I have a control group I only give flakes to and then the other group -the brine shrimp fed guppies just PoP in color. Easy, no mess worth the price, which I thought was steep but is really a great deal.You’ll be happy with results and ease of use.

Finally wanted to try my hand at baby brine shrimp for my chili rasboras/scarlet badis. This kit is incredibly easy and works as advertised! What I did: prepare 1 quart of water (4 cups), added a drop of dechloronator. Added just under 2 tablespoons of API Aquarium Salt (for freshwater) and stirred well until the salt was dissolved. Assemble the dish as shown in the video, pour water into the dish to the fill line, added a scoop of eggs to outer area. Cover and added a light right above it, which helped heat the water to about 74 degrees (I think they hatch best over 70 degrees). A handful began hatching early, around 18 hours in. A ton more began to hatch around the 24-36 hour range. I had multiple scoops ton feed my tank, if anything I overfed the tank over the next couple of days. Even the Pygmy corys, kuhli loaches, and amano shrimp munched on the ones that ended up the bottom. I am now at the 72 hour mark and still have shrimp hatching. Thinking I’ll gorge the tank and then fast for a day or two while I prep the next batch. The only downside is that I think the inhabitants won’t want to go back to dry foods after this! Very happy with how this worked out.Later edited to add: One issue I found is that I was losing a lot of the baby brine shrimp through the screen, they were just too small and I was ending up with of lot wasted. The solution? Coffee filters! Using part of a coffee filter, I pick up the scoop and let it drain its water right onto a piece of coffee filter above the hole in the dish. Then I place this filter paper into the water to get the BBS off it. Also, I recommend using a pipette to suck up the BBS that get caught under the scoop, and that die around the rings in the bottom. Then drip this pipette onto the coffee filter. Way less waste than before.

This worked so well. Added brine shrimp eggs with plain old table salt and tap water. No heater, no extra equipment. I just put this on a side table next to my fish tank and the next day there were hundreds of little brine shrimp swimming around in the little hole that lets light in. The strainer/scooper is perfect for scooping them out to drop into my tank, and my betta loves eating them. Love this.

First one arrived in a dusty, beat up old looking box and of course when I opened it, it was broken with a big hole in the side and plastic pieces on the box from the break. Not really the manufacturer’s fault but still.Now, the Hatcher just works ! It’s super simple. Easy. Hatches out at a great rate especially if you use the BRS eggs with 90 percent hatch rate. I put mine on a plant seedling heating pad to warm the temp up to the mid 70’s and 24 hours later getting tons of hatched brine shrimp.The fact you don’t have to worry about or mess with the hatched cysts and are collecting just the hatched shrimp is the best feature of the product ! I would def recommend but given what it’s made of, should be a much much less expensive price point. Yet I still bought two of them to keep going on at times so I always hatch a hatch available for my fish. Definitely recommend for ease of use alone !

For any low-volume usage, this is perfect. I got plenty of hatching and they head straight into the trap. Super easy to use. Just be sure to sprinkle the eggs lightly so they float on the surface of your salt water. Room temp is fine. First hatches are like 12 hours. It continues for another day. Normal room lighting is enough to bring the shrimp into the trap. Appropriate pricing and fine quality.

This is a GREAT little hatchery for the small aquarium hobbyist. It's very simple to set up and it's as advertised. Just make your salt water solution, pour it into the hatchery, and add the brine shrimp eggs. That's it!! I placed mine on a small stand near my eastern facing window and the next day around 24 hours later I got the first hatch. The second was around 8-12 hours later. I'm going to buy a 2nd hatchery after I set up my frie tanks. If you're graduating to feeding fish frie this is a great way to start. Great product!!!

A great item, easy to use , perfect results

Works very well. You probably want a couple of these on rotation. Using this with an incandescent bulb, as the instructions recommend, has worked perfectly for me providing both heat and light. Remember to use non iodized salt ( aquarium or sea salt ) , if youre completely new to this like I was or they wont hatch I'm significant numbers.