Andy Sager
Aquarium Advice Addict
I do have a heater. Right now the water is very warm 86 I didn't touch the heater temp at all. I did turn it down. I'm hoping for a 24 hour hatch. Also I think I need a larger bottle.
Yeah, small hatcheries are tough because you really need to have a good reliable heater and those cost a lot of money which seems crazy to use on hatching brine shrimp eggs. You need make such small adjustments when you need to make adjustments. I use Supreme brand heaters because back in the 1980s when I first bought them, they were top of the line heaters I used in my hatchery. They have a flaw that they need maintenance on the contact points but I had 400 of them at that time so I kept about 30 of them of different sizes for my personal use. Now, I heat or cool the room instead of each tank individually.
The good news is that you can hatch brine shrimp eggs in anything so using a larger bottle or jar or whatever makes things easier. If you end up hatching a lot of eggs, there are cheaper salts you can buy instead of API. I was buying this: https://www.ruralking.com/diamond-crystal-40-lb-solar-naturals-salt-crystals-for-water-softeners for $6.00. It lasts.