Talking Hatching brine shrimp..... Does anyone use plastic pop bottles? do you find the nice new plastic is clear but after a week they go opaque?
Brine shrimp direct was the only place I would buy BBS eggs.
Many would tell me that while trying to raise fry that BBS were too big for first food.
Any that I was able to convince to try Brine Shrimp Direct changed their tune immediately after the first hatch.
For me being able to feed BBS as a first food was the total game changer in raising fry.
Talking Hatching brine shrimp..... Does anyone use plastic pop bottles? do you find the nice new plastic is clear but after a week they go opaque?
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Just added a 6% solution of acid to the BBS bottles and the white film dissolve in a mass of bubbles (calcium) so got nice clean bottles again.
Steve, I had good hatches for awhile and then they started going to pot. I was simply rinsing my hatcher out aggressively with hot water. It was suggested to me that I wasn't cleaning the hatcher enough. So I started scrubbing it out with a nylon bottle brush and have not had a single issue since in over a year. There's some layer of crud that builds up. I never bleach or use any chemicals, just use a brush to clean/rinse well.
Jacob I do similar.. after each batch I wipe real good with a paper towel.. you can feel the biofilm come off. Then I rinse with hot water and set it all up again.
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When I wash the bottles out I don't feel slime but a roughness as the Calcium build up has stuck to the plastic. Always give it a good scrub with a plastic pad but this build up takes a lot of effort to get rid that's why I tried the acid, worked a dream.
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Yes, 15ml Salt 5ml Epson salts 5ml Bicabonate of Soda. Gives me 8.3 Ph
I found that when I used Instant Ocean Sea Salt I was getting a white film on the bottle and since I had two I would transfer some mild acid mix to the other when I switched bottles. But now I only use API aquarium salt with no issues it cleans very easily.
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I just use plain table salt and a maybe 1/4 tsp baking soda...
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