Brine Shrimp Eggs & Products

These are Siberian eggs grown on by one of our customers.

We supply - live food growers, commercial freshwater breeders, Seahorse & Marine fish breeders, commercial fish hatcheries for Cod & Turbot.
Professionals use our Brine Shrimp eggs & they wouldn't buy it if it didn't give top hatches.

NEW products stocked..

	Utah Brine Shrimp Eggs - Premium Grade 90% hatch rate. Absolute best quality eggs from the USA. These are 90% hatch rate eggs which are going to be hard to get towards the end of 2008. Already their is talk of rationing these much sort after eggs due to a poor harvest last season. The price is not cheap I'm afraid even before freight is put on it but as in all things 'you get what you pay for'. These are 225g containers packed in the USA. These are 'Premier' grade which means the best quality eggs you can get. Most eggs sold in the UK are 80 - 83% hatch rate. Each batch marked on containers with Lot number. Re-sealable cap. Refrigerate once opened. 227g containers.
	£16	Although we only just had these tubs in we sold out in a couple of days. It is unlikely we can get more in due to the availability in the US this harvest but we will keep trying & put the button back on if we get any. In the meantime we have the 83% en route.

	Artemia franciscana - The tiny Brine Shrimp. 84% hatch rate. This shrimp hatches as a smaller size than the usual Great Salt Lake (Utah) or Siberian shrimp. 360,000 eggs to the gram compared to 289,000 for GSL. Use on fry which are too small for normal brine shrimp as a first food (Freshwater, Marine fry & Seahorses). This is not a cheap egg to bring in but we are listing at a really low price. Each batch marked on containers with Lot number. 227g Keep refrigerated once opened.
	£19·50

	Pop Bottle Hatchery Kit We are selling these in large quantities. The hatching pouches they come with are now available seperately. Just cut the bottom off a clear plastic pop bottle & screw the top into the base. A cheap hatchery where you can easily replace old bottles. Kit comes with 3' of airline + 3 packets of San Francisco Bay Brand Brine Shrimp egg/salt mix sachets. Full instructions in packet.
	£7.15

	San Francisco Bay Brand Hatching Mix Contains 3 sachets ( 21g each ) of ready to hatch Brine Shrimp eggs with salt. All you do is add water & an airline. These are the same packets which come with the Hatchery Kits shown a little further down this page. Full instructions on hatching included. Customers buying these kits have asked us to get these in.
	£4·25
	Ocean Nutrition - Instant Brine Shrimp This is sterile newly hatched Brine Shrimp in a water solution. No preservatives or colourants - just pure shrimp. The glass jar has a tamper evident metal lid & can be kept unopened at room temperature for many years but once opened should be refridgerated & will last up to 6 weeks. Each jar contains 20g of pure shrimp consisting around 1·7 million nauplii. When added to the tank they sink slowly & can be kept in the water column with an airstone or similar agitation. Even if you hatch your own eggs this little jar is a useful back up in emergency. Or you could use these instead of hatching your own.... These are NOT de-capsulated cysts.
	£11·50

	Hobby Brine Shrimp Sieves. I use one of these in my fish house & have done for years (the same one). They last for ages & are easy to clean.
	£3·95

	Hobby Combination Sieve set. Contains 4 seperate sieves - coarse, medium & fine ideal for grading live foods.
	£9·50

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Brine Shrimp Flake

Are you still paying £30 - £40+ for a can of brine shrimp eggs? Crazy!!!
Some shops sell old cans for £80+. Not on this site.....

These eggs are rated 80%. I don't go by this. All I know is they are really good quality.
Open a can & the air you let in kills the eggs off really fast. These pouches can be collapsed to exclude all air & taped up to be stored in the fridge. You will get 12 months
of fantastic hatches keeping them this way.
Pouches are nitrogen flushed which means all the air is blown out for long term storage. Also, these pouches contain a preserver used in human meat packaging to lengthen shelf life.
The combination of these two packaging methods mean you get top quality eggs giving very good hatches.

We sell hundreds of these packs & get loads of repeat orders for bigger amounts.
Only £20·00 (+ postage) for a 550 grm pouch.

You can still get live shrimp out of your hatching jar 5 days after your first hatch (as long as you don't overdo the amount of eggs you put to hatch).
They hatch at cooler temperatures in 36-48 hours (60-70°F) & survive longer at these lower temperatures. You get a faster hatch (20-24 hours at higher temperatures (78-80°F).
Most other eggs turn to mush on day 2-3 if not harvested.
These are rated at 80% hatch but they are much much better than that.
We can supply these eggs in bulk or a few hundred grms (ounces) & can offer them at a really low price.

Siberian eggs under the microscope at x 60 magnitude. Now compare this to a similar scan of Utah eggs...

How we hatch them out for a maximum yield........... Water specific gravity should be around SG 1.020. This equates to one & a half teaspoonfuls of cooking salt per pint of water. Water temperature 78-80°F. Hatching at lower temperatures takes a little longer ( around 30 - 36 hours ) but you get a good hatch. Syphon the live shrimp out leaving the shells. Take this down to half an inch from the bottom. Feed the shrimp but don't throw out the eggs in the hatching container. Re-fill the container with a fresh saltwater mix & repeat the hatching process. You can get a decent hatch next time round. This can be repeated again for a full hatch. For best results store your eggs in the fridge at +3°C. Sterilise hatching jar & airline & rinse out thoroughly.

Taken during settling. Shells rising leaving shrimp on the base.

Testimonials from people who have tried them (reprinted with permission). This is just a sample -

This years harvest (2007) in some of the main producing countries has been poor & Russian stocks are being hammered.
This pushes up the global pricing on Artemia cysts & we are having to pay more to import them. This coupled with
recent VAT registration has meant we have had to put our prices up slightly.
They still represent fantastic value.

100 grm £5·00
250 grm £11·00
550 grm pouch £20·00

Please note: Once opened package should be resealed excluding all air & refridgerated.This is important for any Brine Shrimp cyst.

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Artemia Disinfectant

Used for some time by commercial hatcheries this product is added to Brine Shrimp hatching jars.
We have been testing this out in our own fish house & the results are shown below.

• Improves water quality
• Stabilizes pH (this is important)
• Stops foaming at the surface
• Intensifies the colour of the hatch
• Reduces harmful bacteria
• Enriches Artemia with essential nutrients
• Increases hatching performance
  
  The cloudy water you see in hatching jars contains an extremely large amount of bacteria known as a 'bloom'. This is known to contain 10% vibrio sp. to begin with.
  This is not a nice one & rapidly expands its percentage on the other bacteria to high concentrations. A combination of hatching Artemia & bacteria take a high demand on
  available oxygen disolved in the water. This demand outstrips available oxygen, plunges pH & the Artemia die rapidly leaving you with an orange mush at the base of the jar.

Koi & other coldwater fish are particularly susceptible to Vibrio bacteria. A few pounds invested in the early stages makes a big difference.

If you feed your fish Artemia from cloudy hatching jars chances are you are introducing Vibrio bacteria to your fry also. This product has shown to significally affect this bacteria.

The test started with 2 x 1 gallon sweet jars. Both were cleaned thoroughly (including the airline) & stelilized with Kick Start (see 'Treatments' page to purchase). A usual hatch
mix of 1·5 teaspoonfuls of cooking salt per pint (SG 1·020 approx) was used. Siberian eggs were used in the experiment. Given that high temperatures accelerate hatching &
bacteria growth I decided to hatch at a lower temperature of 70°F. The left hand column below shows treated eggs the right without.

To use this product... Sterilise hatching container.
Dosage - 1 ml to 10 litres of salt water.
Aerate strongly for 5 minutes (do not use your hands). Add Artemia cysts & hatch normally.
Rinse newly hatched shrimp in a net or sieve in fresh water before use.

This column shows a hatch with treatment. Photo taken 20 hours into the hatch. No frothing, water still clear.		This column shows a hatch without treatment. Photo taken 20 hours into the hatch. Frothing starting to show badly, water turning cloudy. Bacterial growth on a dip slide after 24 hours. The 2 dark dots are unhatched eggs. A slide of the treated jar showed it to be clear of colonies.
100 grm £7·99 This is more concentrated than our previous treatment.

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These are packed in vacuum sealed wrappers. 500 grms of solid de-capsulated brine shrimp.

Over 50kg sold this week (16th June '08)

100g...... £4·50

500g...... £16·00

Some de-capsulated eggs contain untreated eggs which can choke fry. These de-caps are shell free. We get loads of repeat orders for these.
This food is ready to feed to your fish. Being very fine it is easily taken up by young fish. I'm feeding it to newly dropped guppy fry & Killie fry.
Apistogramma are not known for getting excited over dried food but they come to the surface to take this.
The food will float for a good time although my fish eat it before it gets a chance to sink.
This food is bright red. The photos below have not been enhanced in any way.
We export kilo's of this stuff.
This food is NOT hatchable - feed directly to your fish.
Decapsulated eggs are higher in energy & nutritional value than hatched eggs as no energy is consumed in the hatching process.
Amino acids, lipids & enzymes remain intact.

500 grm vacuum sealed bag

De-capsulated food at X 60 mag.

100 grm bag

Protein - not less than 56.8%, Fat - not less than 14.9%, Ash - not more than 5%, Energy - for 100 gr - 541.7 calories.

Amino Acids: Lysine - 38.5 gr/kg, Arginine - 26.9 gr/kilo, Valine - 21.5 gr/kilo, Phenylalanine - 18.5 gr/kilo, Leucine - 21 gr/kilo,
Isoleucine - 18.6 gr/kilo, Threonine - 15.9 gr/kilo, Histidine - 26.4 gr/kilo, Methionine - 17.1 gr/kilo, Tryptophan - 1.6 gr/kilo.

If you feed De-capsulated Brine Shrimp why not try our Arctipod food as well...
See 'granular' page for details.

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See also Brine Shrimp nets on the 'Nets' page & Brine Shrimp Flake on the Food - Flakes & Ocean Nutrition pages.