Hobby Artemia Breeder

This product works really well. My Angelfish bred for a second time and I struggled to hatch brine shrimp to feed to the fry until I tried this hatchery. I mixed 2 teaspoonfuls of sea salt with just over a pint of slightly warm water and carefully sprinked eggs around the outer section. It didn't work with the decapsulated eggs that you can also buy on amazon but i instead bought some great salt lake premium 90% hatch rate eggs on ebay and I had a good hatch after just one night. After dispensing a hatch into the aquarium I found it populates with enough brine shrimp again for a couple more servings before you need to clean it out and reset again. This hatchery is also very useful for separating the shrimp from the egg shells since they swim to the centre where the light is. I also purchased some live baby brine shimp and this hatchery was effective at separating the live shrimp from the eggs. Putting some extra light on the centre with a desk lamp also made it a bit more effective. It doesn't produce huge quantities but is perfect for the hobby aquarist who suddenly has a load of fry to feed. You can also mix with hikari first bites to increase the portion size when adding to the aquarium.

If you are just a home fish keeper and have a single tank, this is a perfect way to hatch brine shrimp. It's easy, clean and isn't a hassle. Just eat it up, fill with saline and add the eggs to the outside area. Then place in a warm / room temp room with an incandescent light bulb above it. The incandescent light provides both light and heat. No bubbling, no pumps no hassle. Just a decent amount of brine shrimp for a single tank for a couple of days. I admit that I do not use their own brine shrimp mix, I am not keep on it. I make my own saline solution and add eggs. I think it's easier and far cleaner that the max if eggs and salt that this band also sells.

Very good. Very easy with hobby brand eggs and salt mix. Find makes eggs for two days really when at 27c.

Does as it says, buy any brine shrimp eggs, place on a heat mat (bought one for plants for dual purpose), no air pump, not even 8 hours into it I had several hatch with using only half of a scoop provided by the hatchery which is literally tiny. I was skeptical of it, but that removed any doubt I had of it. Follow the instructions provided, I had a small bowl that I used boiling hot water to mix regular table salt with. Which was a small amount of water then poured it into a measuring cup and filled the rest with cold water to bump the temp down some. Added a tiny pinch of baking soda as city PH is 6.5 here. Added the water to the kit, placed things as they should be, added eggs, walked away and no issues. Did not bother with a light even. Just placed it next to my aquarium which has a light and that is enough to attract them. Nothing elaborate, very simple and simple ease to feed the fish with (Danios, Molly, Tetra)

I couldn't really get the Brine shrimp to hatch in this. Possibly because the room temperature was a little cooler than needed. Have since invested in a slightly larger model that I could put a heater in

I think this is a really good product. So easy to use and you get complete separation of the brine shrimp form the eggs if used properly. Okay, the bubbler hatcheries are maybe more efficient and better for the dedicated hobbyist who has loads of fry to feed, but for most people this will provide plenty of baby brine shrimp in a very hassle free way. Doesn't work very well with eggs re-mixed with salt, so sue separate salt and eggs rather than the pre-mixed stuff.

I had four attempts with not one hatching. Worked out that it needs a light as close as possible on to the middle. I use a torch rested on to it then got loads of them.

Got this to hatch brine shrimp for my cory fry, and didn't want the full set-up. I had Artemia eggs pre-mixed with salt so followed the instructions for mixing 0.5L of that rather than the instructions that came with the hatchery...... 2 days later I've got more than enough freshly hatched artemia to feed my baby fish! They love the live food versus the liquid food they were getting before, and it's great seeing them all active while they look for their food. A great investment for future breeding!

this is still an excellent baby brine shrimp hatchery, easy to use and to clean… no replacing parts means it last for years. highly recommended.

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Also mal ehrlich: Wer hat schon Lust, sich mit Schläuchen, Sprudelsteinen und stundenlangem Fummeln rumzuärgern, nur um ein paar winzige Krebse für die Fischbrut zu züchten? Ich jedenfalls nicht. Deshalb habe ich mir diese Aufzuchtschale gegönnt – und was soll ich sagen? Sie macht genau das, was sie soll. Einfach, stressfrei, effektiv. Einrichten in unter 2 Minuten: Salzwasser rein, Artemia-Eier rein, Deckel drauf, fertig. Kein Strom, kein Blubbern, kein Technikwahnsinn. Ich habe es direkt verstanden – das will was heißen! Artemia wissen genau, wo sie hin sollen: Nach einem Tag sammeln sich die Nauplien brav in der Mitte, wie bestellt und nicht abgeholt. Absaugen mit der mitgelieferten Pipette? Kinderspiel. Alles dabei, was man braucht: Löffel, Sieb, Pipette – man könnte fast sagen: ein Rundum-sorglos-Paket für Aquaristik-Faule. Leise, sauber, unkompliziert: Kein nerviges Geblubber, keine Stromrechnung, keine platzraubende Technik. Die Schale steht da, macht ihr Ding und liefert zuverlässig Futter für die Jungfische. Fazit: Ich liebe es. Meine Guppys lieben es. Die Artemia haben dazu keine Meinung mehr, weil sie inzwischen als Snack enden. Aber für alle anderen Beteiligten eine klare Win-Win-Situation. Wer sich das Leben leichter machen will, greift zu. Ganz klare 5 Sterne!

I had been using an inverted bottle with air hose adapter. No matter what I tried, I ended up with shells mixed in with my BBS. This required a second separation task in a clear container with a torch and pipette before filtering through mesh - and even with this there would still be some shells left. I was left with numerous things to wash every time I harvested BBS I have used the Hobby breeding tray for a week. It has been running without a heating pad in a room set at 21 degrees Celsius. I have had multiple successful hatches within 24-36hrs without a single shell mixed in! I can also harvest multiple times from each batch. There is no mess, no additional containers or pipettes to clean. I am getting a second one so I can have fresh BBS hatching every day. Even if you need higher volume BBS on a daily basis than this can make, I would suggest hatching them in a typical airline system and using this device to separate the BBS from the shells. Note - it needs 700mL of water to reach the line (not 500mL as detailed in the instructions) I add in 18g of rock salt and 3-4g of sodium bicarbonate. I use 3 scoops of artemia cysts per cycle.

Pas terrible aucun Artemias après 3 jours