What is your brine shrimp recipe?

[houstonhobby]

Everyone,

Do you feed baby brine shrimp? If so, how often and what is your recipe?

I have three clowns at the moment, and brine shrimp is all I have been able to get them to eat. They would probably eat flake but I followed LFS advice and bought pellets and the pellets are too big for them to handle.

I have been doing brine shrimp for years for fresh water, and buy my "eggs" by the coffee-can from Brine Shrimp Direct (80% hatch grade).

For a breeder I use 2 liter bottle with the bottom cut off. I hang the bottle upside down and glue an airline thru the cap and run a small air pump thru the airline. Make sure the air line has a loop that goes above the level of the water before it goes to the pump. I hang a 25 watt soft white light near this rig (brine shrimp need both heat and light to hatch).

The recipe is RO/DI water to an inch or two from the top (just because that is the water I happen to have handy), a teaspoon of baking soda for carbonate hardness, a shot glass full of non-iodized table salt from the grocery store, and a teaspoon of "eggs".

Then, when I feed to fresh water fish I strain them into a net and run tap water over them to wash the salt out.

For my clowns, I have been taking them from the net, without washing, and putting them into the tank.

Should I use my pre-made salt water instead? And if I did, would it be okay if some of that water got into my salt water tank?

Thanks,
Rod