Brine shrimp hatchery

[Fishlover5297]

Hi,
I've recently gone through a lot of bad advice concerning my newly hatched axolotl but now have it in a small see through box with the right conditions however, I was told (and have researched) that they can survive on baby brine shrimp which I have been buying and was wondering if it would be worthwhile trying to breed them myself so my questions are:-
How hard is it to breed brine shrimp?
What conditions do they need?
And
Is this an easy process to do?
Any help would be greatly received

 

[SkullAngel]

Breeding brine shrimp is relatively easy if you can manage them. I have bred brine shrimp before by luck and it was hard. Raising them would be the hardest part. The main thing you need would be a food source, I mostly used crushed up fish flakes but that wouldn't account for the proper diet the would need. The best diet for brine shrimp would be spirulina powder. What I also done was take some rocks from the beach and wash it off. Leave it in a container of fresh water and place it where it will get a lot of sunlight. Once the water turns into a greenish color, you can put the brine shrimp eggs in. You don't have to worry about the salinity because the rocks will leach salt into the water.

 

[Fishlover5297]

Is spirulina powder normally green?

 

[SkullAngel]

Yes, Spirulina powder is a kind of dried up algae powder and it's small enough for the brine shrimps to filter feed