What The Heck BrineShrimp??????

[FishCrazyBenBOMB]

Well I got a bunch of brine shrimp eggs, and i've been hatching some brine shrimp for my small fish. Couple weeks ago I emptied all the eggs into one container and add some eggs on my fingers so I just dipped my fingers in my empty 20G expecting all the eggs to get filtered up.


Now recently i've been seeing tons of brineshirmp in the tank, plus i've been seen some pretty nice sized ones.



How long can these guys live for?
How big can they seriously get?

 

[GhostKnife]

HAHA wow youve got to go into the shrimping industry!! I have no idea about the size but I would assume they arent going to die this year.

 

[FishCrazyBenBOMB]

Well the tank they are in now has around a dozen Yellow Shrimp, so maybe they will take are of a lot of em.

 

[mike47517]

i have heard they can grow to 3/4" but never could really see them getting that big.

 

[gzeiger]

I've seen wild fairy shrimp (similar freshwater species) around 3/4" consistently. No idea about brine shrimp specifically.

 

[FishCrazyBenBOMB]

Yeah, I keep seeing them in the tanks, kind of gets on my nerves, since I think that my tank is kind of dirty, then I see tons of white specks that are freely swimming.