I know what Paul B's method is, but Paul feel free to add to the discussion, I always hold your words in high esteem.
I'm still tinkering with hatching BBS so I was wondering how everyone does theirs?
Here are some of the options I've found and my 2 cents on the one's I've done:
1) Cut 2 liter bottle method. Add smallish scoop of eggs to water (old tank water seems to work fine) with air for ~24 hours. Pull air then try to separate BBS from floating empty eggs and sinking unhached eggs.
2) Decap eggs first. Rehydrate eggs then put them in bleach water mix with air for long enough for them to turn from brown to a deep red. This method then do option 1 and there's no need to separate anything.
3) Assorted hatcheries. There are several assorted hatcheries on the market.
-San Fran Bay hatchery, this combines the 2 ltr bottle method with a nice(ish) fixed stand and a black box separator that uses a cup about the size of a film canister to draw all the hatched bbs into it. Looks like this would work, reviews are hit and miss, but I wonder about the empty eggs getting drawn into the collection cup, since it sits on top of the box.
-Plate design from brine shrimp direct (and others?). Looks like a small bowl with circular rings inside and a lid that has a hole in the center. Eggs are put in outer rings, as babies hatch they swim to the light in the center where there's a small filter cup to collect them.
-TOM hatch n feed. Looks to be an all in one design. Reviews are also hit and miss.
Then there another design using a CD and PVC cup that's on youtube and I think sold through ebay?
I'm still tinkering with hatching BBS so I was wondering how everyone does theirs?
Here are some of the options I've found and my 2 cents on the one's I've done:
1) Cut 2 liter bottle method. Add smallish scoop of eggs to water (old tank water seems to work fine) with air for ~24 hours. Pull air then try to separate BBS from floating empty eggs and sinking unhached eggs.
2) Decap eggs first. Rehydrate eggs then put them in bleach water mix with air for long enough for them to turn from brown to a deep red. This method then do option 1 and there's no need to separate anything.
3) Assorted hatcheries. There are several assorted hatcheries on the market.
-San Fran Bay hatchery, this combines the 2 ltr bottle method with a nice(ish) fixed stand and a black box separator that uses a cup about the size of a film canister to draw all the hatched bbs into it. Looks like this would work, reviews are hit and miss, but I wonder about the empty eggs getting drawn into the collection cup, since it sits on top of the box.
-Plate design from brine shrimp direct (and others?). Looks like a small bowl with circular rings inside and a lid that has a hole in the center. Eggs are put in outer rings, as babies hatch they swim to the light in the center where there's a small filter cup to collect them.
-TOM hatch n feed. Looks to be an all in one design. Reviews are also hit and miss.
Then there another design using a CD and PVC cup that's on youtube and I think sold through ebay?
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