Live brine shrimp

[mansiz]

Can live brine shrimp survive in a small pail around 1.5 Litres with an air stone connected in to a small motor pump? I wanted to keep them and use them to feed my fishes and not to buy it when I wanted to feed and must finish them up within a day, its a waste. And I can throw in some eggs as well to let them hatch.

[reefrunner69]

Can live brine shrimp survive in a small pail around 1.5 Litres with an air stone connected in to a small motor pump?

For a little while, they will eventually pollute the water so bad they all die. You can put them in a shallow plastic pan in the frifge and they should last about a week.

[mansiz]

How about if I change 100% of water every 3 days? Can they survive long this way?

[Bang Guy]

If your feed the Artemia high quality Phytoplankton they will live just fine. If you don't then there's really no reason to keep them more than a day because they will have absolutely no nutritional value for your fish.

I use a product called instant algae as well as live Diatoms and I have a colony of Artemia that has been around for about 3 years.