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 Topic: great salt lake Brine shrimp pictures
Posted: August 08 2013 at 11:21pm |
Hey everyone, Y'all missed out on todays brine shrimp collecting trip, it was fantastic! The conditions are perfect and there's plenty to go around, not to mention how good they are for your fish. In a very short period of time simply swishing nets around in the water me and mark got buckets and buckets of them that will last a looong time. I'll attach a few pictures that I got I know Mark has several as well. So if any of you haven't been before or just need some more live/frozen brine shrimp I am more than happy to take a group out (I'm sure mark would love to come don't quote me on that though ;), or I'm happy to share a little Of what I collected today. Upon Arrival  Makes me want a sailboat...  This is one of the buckets about halfway through collecting.  Like I said if anyone ever wants to go I'm more than happy to help out (: -Justin
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Posted: August 09 2013 at 11:49am |
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Did you guys collect right there at the boat marina... I was there a few weeks ago trying to collect some Dunaliella phytoplankton and didnt see many live adult brine but millions or baby brine.
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Posted: August 09 2013 at 12:00pm |
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Yes we did, right between the boats there were more than enough. Fairly thick too in places.
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Posted: August 09 2013 at 12:01pm |
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How do you rinse/clean them?
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AcroNem
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Posted: August 09 2013 at 12:09pm |
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Mark has a really nice way of rinsing them. Start with three small bucket/bowls of fresh water in a row. Net as many shrimp out as you can and let it drain for a few seconds then just repeat the process through the fresh water in the smaller buckets. There will be lots of left overs in your original bucket(s) so I just keep those alive to feed.
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Posted: August 09 2013 at 12:11pm |
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Cool thanks, I'll have to go check it out.
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Posted: August 09 2013 at 12:59pm |
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I am going to have to look in to this. :)
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AcroNem
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Posted: August 09 2013 at 4:15pm |
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I hadn't been in a long time it was way overdue. Like I said if you or anyone wants to go with a group I'd love to go again. I'm just surprised that not many people collect their own so I thought I would post a little bit about it.
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Posted: August 09 2013 at 11:25pm |
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I hadn't been in a long time it was way overdue. Like I said if you or anyone wants to go with a group I'd love to go again. I'm just surprised that not many people collect their own so I thought I would post a little bit about it. |
I should collect brine shrimp. I live like 20 minutes away from the marina. It's just finding the time to do it. Maybe one day I'll have to join you guys out there.
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Posted: August 20 2013 at 11:02am |
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Let us know next time you go out, I'd love to come along.
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Posted: October 16 2013 at 10:03am |
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Can you keep them alive very long in a bucket with airstones/heater? Or do you just freeze them?
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Posted: October 16 2013 at 10:18pm |
No heater because the GSL is not warm. No airstone because the GSL Marina is fairly stagnant. BS don't handle the tumbling too well. They can be collected live from May to October. The dock at the southwest corner of the Marina has no locked gate/has free access. Bring them home in the 5 gal bucket half full of GSL water so it can slosh, but not slosh out. Rinse them in 3 smaller containers of tapwater lined up. Transfer net fulls from one freshwater dip to the next, within a few minutes. For the 3rd and final netting, let it drain longer and place the ball of BS in a ziplock freezer bag. Flatten the bag, squeeze out the air and place into the freezer (on a cookie sheet if there are many bags). I
purposely save and feed BS to my aquariums for many days afterward,
netting them right from the 5 gal bucket. To extend
their life a few more days, I feed phytoplankton in the form of BSD Tahitian Blend algae paste. The last BS in the bucket will be nauplii
that can be strained out just like rotifers; slow flow through a paper
coffee filter. Aloha, Mark      By the time we were finished the bucket was half full of water and had a 1-2 inch layer of BS swimming at the surface so you couldn't see the bottom of the bucket. Have fun. 
Edited by Mark Peterson - October 16 2013 at 10:27pm
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