Brine Shrimp growing in my phytoplankton water

[skozzy]

For an experiment I put 20 drops of decapped brine shrimp eggs in one of my
phytoplankton cultures and so far they hatched, it's been 3 days now and
everything is going good, the phyto has increased and the shrimp seem to be
doing well. Do brine shrimp eat phytoplankton ? I am going to leave this lot
run and monitor it.

[Pszemol]

"skozzy" > wrote in message u...
> For an experiment I put 20 drops of decapped brine shrimp eggs in one of my
> phytoplankton cultures and so far they hatched, it's been 3 days now and
> everything is going good, the phyto has increased and the shrimp seem to be
> doing well. Do brine shrimp eat phytoplankton ? I am going to leave this lot
> run and monitor it.

Yes, brine shrimp eats everything in the particle size it can catch.
Use www.google.com - it can answer you a lot of simple questions like this one.

[Richard Reynolds]

> For an experiment I put 20 drops of decapped brine shrimp eggs in one of my
> phytoplankton cultures and so far they hatched, it's been 3 days now and
> everything is going good, the phyto has increased and the shrimp seem to be
> doing well. Do brine shrimp eat phytoplankton ? I am going to leave this lot
> run and monitor it.

ive posted this before, for you

BOOK MARK IT!!!

http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/W3732E/w3732e00.htm

in that you will find that they dont eat right away, further diging will find that when
they eat algae they will eat the larger stuff first, so if your algae is still a mix, you
will remove the larger algae first (as a percentage of the whole), they also produce CO2
right all of these are good things, but eventually they will start to eat your desired
algae. and you will have none!


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Richard Reynolds

[skozzy]

Thanks for the great link, I did bookmark it now, I don't have a good memory
so please excuse me if I sound like I am asking the same questions a few
times.

"Richard Reynolds" > wrote in message
news:kTjDc.16571$WI2.3124@lakeread05...
> > For an experiment I put 20 drops of decapped brine shrimp eggs in one of
my
> > phytoplankton cultures and so far they hatched, it's been 3 days now and
> > everything is going good, the phyto has increased and the shrimp seem to
be
> > doing well. Do brine shrimp eat phytoplankton ? I am going to leave this
lot
> > run and monitor it.
>
> ive posted this before, for you
>
> BOOK MARK IT!!!
>
> http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/W3732E/w3732e00.htm
>
> in that you will find that they dont eat right away, further diging will
find that when
> they eat algae they will eat the larger stuff first, so if your algae is
still a mix, you
> will remove the larger algae first (as a percentage of the whole), they
also produce CO2
> right all of these are good things, but eventually they will start to eat
your desired
> algae. and you will have none!
>
>
> --
> Richard Reynolds
>
>
>

[Richard Reynolds]

> Thanks for the great link, I did bookmark it now, I don't have a good memory
> so please excuse me if I sound like I am asking the same questions a few
> times.

thats ok

but its better to have someone ask

"can i put brine shrimp in my phyto?"

than

"I put brine shrimp in my phyto, now what...."

if you cant remember if brine shrimp go in phyto, then dont add brine shrimp to
your phyto until you know itll work, answering the questions is what some of us
responders like to do. hearing that someone is "experimenting" when they are
lacking very important data isnt so fun.

want me to pack your parachute??? ive never done it, or had any training or even
read how, but i wanna experiment!!!

richard reynolds