Brine Shrimp Eggs & Products


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We sell in excess of £10,000 worth of Artemia eggs (cysts) each year.

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.

The secret to raising Artemia - Alan was crazy enough to put this data online..

 



Day old Austrofundulus guajira filling up on Siberian Artemia.

Siberian Eggs harvested from Kulundinskoe Lake

Rated 80% hatch rate but we think they should be higher.

These are our best selling eggs. We have literally sold tons of these to breeders, farms, Government authorities & growers & have used them for many years to feed our own fish. These are extremely good value for money at 550g. US cans are 454g..
We get loads of repeat orders for these packs.
For more information please see bottom of this page.
550g pouch.......... £38·97
250g.......... £19·45
100g.......... £8·35

Great Salt Lake Eggs - Utah.

Grade A - 80 - 85% hatch rate.

Vacuum sealed cans. Grade A is the next one down from Premium grade. This grade sold out in the USA in quick time as it was vastly over subscribed. Grade A has been tried out in our breeding sheds & gives a good hatch.

We mentioned earlier in the year that higher grade Utah eggs would rise late summer.
Our recent import saw a rise in cost due to a shortage coupled with expensive currency exchanges.

100g.......... £8·68
227g.......... £22·46
454g.......... £42·00(can)

See the US Government Utah Wildlife site for up to date harvest reports.

Artemia franciscana - The tiny Brine Shrimp.
84% hatch rate.

Artemia franciscana grown on by Alan Green. The dark looking backs of these shrimp look gold when viewed from above.

This shrimp hatches as a smaller size than the usual Great Salt Lake (Utah) or Siberian shrimp.
This is a species found in a small area of San Francisco Bay. It may look expensive but it's really a very limited area of collection & costs a lot to import.
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. Keep refrigerated once opened.

227g.......... £26·74

 

Live Hatching Shelless Brine Shrimp Cysts.
We were stocking a reliable shelless cyst some years ago but it was taken off the market. We couldn't find anything as good until we tried this. To hatch, make up a hatching solution as you would to hatch shelled cysts & add some shelless cysts.
Hatching (or free swimming) time is a lot shorter. Also - no shells to pollute the jar.
No energy is wasted hatching through the shell.

Please bear in mind with this product that we keep this under refrigeration & experiments show using it directly from the fridge takes at least 4 days to hatch as with normal shelled cysts. We recommend you keep this out of the fridge if using regularly to shorten hatching time.

This product can be used directly to feed young. Not all fry will accept it but it will contain all the feed value.

 

100 ml..... £13·07

 

400 ml..... £36·66

 

Selco Brine Shrimp Enrichment
This is enriched with Highly Unsaturated Fatty Acids (HUFA). Also contains high levels of essential Omega 3 fatty acids (EPA & DHA). This is fed to live foods like newly hatched (or adult) Brine Shrimp, Daphnia etc where it can be ingested or coat the surface or the feed animals & greatly improves the lipid content.
To use - syphon newly hatched shrimp out of the hatching jar & rinse in clean fresh water. Put into a fresh jar of salted water 35-45 parts per thousand. Temperature 28°C. Maintain a vigorous aeration to fully mix the water. Do not feed straight away. Allow 18-24 hours to allow time to absorb yolk sacs. Shake Selco bottle well & add ·05mls (10 drops) per litre of water. It is important to maintain strong aeration. After 12 hours the shrimp should have become fully enriched & can be fed to fry/fish.

Analysis - Lipids 65%, Ash max 3%, Omega 3 (HUFA) min 400mg//g dry weight, vitamin A min 1,500,00 IU/kg, vitamin D3 min 150,000 IU/kg, vitamin E 3,600 mg/kg.

We keep this under refrigeration.

125 ml..... £12·00

 

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.

£9·96


Hobby Brine Shrimp Hatcher

Hobby have been making these for decades. They are ideal for hatching smaller quantities of brine shrimp eggs. To use fill with salted water just below the top of the white ring. Add an airline through the hole in the lip. Add brine shrimp eggs to the outside ring of the hatcher. The newly hatched nauplii will be attracted to the light in the centre of the hatcher & the egg shells are left behind. The centre of the hatcher contains a sieve you can pull out to feed to your fish.

£19·95

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.
Full instructions on hatching included.

£4·44

De Capsulated Brine Shrimp Eggs

Because these are shell less & dried you get a lot more cysts per gram than live eggs.
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.
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.

Protein - 53%, Fat - 11%, Fibre 1%, Ash 6%
Size 245 µm
Vitamin E 160 mg/kg, vitamin C 550 mg/kg.

100g.......... £5·26

500g.......... £20·94

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.
We sell literally hundreds of these.

£6·23

Hobby Combination Sieve set.

Contains 4 seperate sieves - coarse, medium & fine ideal for grading live foods.

£11·34

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Brine Shrimp Flake

Please see Flake Food page.

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Siberian eggs.
Large quantities supplied to bulk users (minimum order 100 kg).
Please contact us for a quote.
57·7 % Protein

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.
Some of our customers report getting good hatches 2 years from opening the pouch.

BIOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS
length of Instar I (in micrometer; standard deviation)
505.92 µm (21.87)

PROXIMATE ANALYSES (Instar I) On DW (dry weight)
% Ash 5.82 % (0.13)
% Proteins 57.70 % (0.22)
% lipids 15.88 % (0.74)

Data: University of Gent.

In 2010 alone we sold £18,000 in sales of live cysts alone
to hobbyists, farms & fish importers. Over £50,000's worth sold in the last 5 years.
It has to be good to do these sort of sales.
We supply the biggest importers in the UK & some of the biggest ornamental coldwater
fish farms who start their fish off on these eggs.
We even supply CEFAS (DEFRA) with our eggs & feeds.

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 in our opinion.
We can supply these eggs from a ton to a few hundred grms (ounces) & can offer them at a really low price.

Siberian eggs under the microscope at x 60 magnitude.

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.

Do not freeze Artemia eggs. They go into deep hibernation & will not hatch for some time. Don't believe all you read.
Keep eggs you expose to air in the fridge (+3°C). Keep eggs at least a week at room temperature before hatching. This is really important.
Exposure to air is a real killer so remove as much air as possible during storage.

Siberian cysts are kept in nitrogen flushed containers with a human grade preservative. US eggs (454g) are in vacuum sealed containers.

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 -

What excellent hatching I am getting with these Siberian brine shrimp eggs.
Whether it is storing them in the fridge or just the eggs themselves I don't know but I have had to buy a much smaller measuring spoon to avoid having too much brine shrimp.

Ed L...(UK).

As for the baby brine shrimps - I had more shrimps from two teaspoonfuls of eggs than my bettas could eat - that's over 600 fish! These products are going to make feeding time in my fish room a lot easier from now on.
The brine shrimp net is good too - the first one I have found that actually works!

Robert N... (UK).
I started to use the Siberian eggs. They are really good. Great hatching
rate, shorter time to hatch and they live longer. The unhatched eggs don't
foul the water, as you said. If you need some material to advertise your
product, you can forward my email to anyone suspicious about the quality
of this Russian merchandise (as I was, I admit)
All the best,
 Mircea (Romania). mcrisnic@cardiologie.ro		 I stopped hatching brine shrimp years ago due to the poor hatch rate with
local fish shop supplies. This week I decided to try again with your Siberian eggs. I am astounded at the results, the best hatch that I have ever had. Their were far
more nauplii than I expected. I ended up putting some into more tanks just to
use them up!!
 Roy Clark

Got the eggs yesterday morning, set them going at 3.30pm.
Checked this morning and it was heaving, fantastic, hatched in less than 19
hours. Brilliant.
Best I have used so far, much better than the ones I normaly buy.
No problem in recommending them to everyone.
Look forward to buying from you again.
 Keith Pearson (UK).

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.

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 litre 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 ml

£10·42

This is more concentrated than our previous treatment.

 

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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.

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