I have had a store bought container of brine eggs for some time. I was thinking about releasing the eggs into my 120 g refugium which will hopefully one day be seahorse tank (almost wall to wall macro algae in there now).
My main thought was to start a culture of feeder creatures (lots of copepods & other small critters in the 120g right now) that would hopefully get sucked up into the main tank (190 g) at a rate that would allow for continuous breeding of the brine in the lower tank (infinite live food supply).
All my reading to date has been on people hatching the brine cysts in 2 liter bottles so that they can get newly hatched napulii (sp.) to feed fish fry.
Will the refugium / future sea horse tank become overwhelmed by brine, or is there some other reason why I shouldn't do this?
If this sounds like a decent idea, then is dumping the cysts in a fairly well aerated portion of the refugium the way to go or should I rig up one of the 2 L bottle contraptions (I don't mind certain losses - looking for something that won't make too much mess and upset the wife)?
My main thought was to start a culture of feeder creatures (lots of copepods & other small critters in the 120g right now) that would hopefully get sucked up into the main tank (190 g) at a rate that would allow for continuous breeding of the brine in the lower tank (infinite live food supply).
All my reading to date has been on people hatching the brine cysts in 2 liter bottles so that they can get newly hatched napulii (sp.) to feed fish fry.
Will the refugium / future sea horse tank become overwhelmed by brine, or is there some other reason why I shouldn't do this?
If this sounds like a decent idea, then is dumping the cysts in a fairly well aerated portion of the refugium the way to go or should I rig up one of the 2 L bottle contraptions (I don't mind certain losses - looking for something that won't make too much mess and upset the wife)?