Nano Brine Shrimp
Nano Brine from AlgaeBarn brings you premium decapsulated Live Brine shrimp between 400-500 microns in size. These tiny shrimp are full of protein and rich in fat, making them an excellent food source for almost everything in your aquarium. Fish go crazy for them, but they can feed corals as well! Our Nano Brine are shipped before they hatch. During transit, the sterilized eggs will hatch, giving you the freshest, most highly nutritious Nano Brine shrimp. While most of the shrimp will hatch, the unhatched ones still provide an amazing fatty-acid food source. This is because our eggs are decapsulated. What makes AlgaeBarn Nano Brine even better is that they are guaranteed to be free of all parasites.
Why are the Nano Brine Shrimp shipped as cysts?
Nutritional value will be somewhat higher in product that has been hatched from decapsulated cysts. This is because each young individual has used up less of its endogenous energy reserve (i.e. yolk sac) while breaking out of its shell. Decapsulation additionally makes the product safer, as the shell fragments from untreated cysts (which are indigestible) can clog the guts of some animals. Moreover, the decapsulation process completely sterilizes the cysts, making them completely disease-free. Untreated Artemia cysts are, for example, a known source of bacterial infection (e.g. Vibrio). If properly decapsulated, even the unhatched cysts can serve as a safe and nourishing food source.
What are the benefits of feeding live brine shrimp?
Any aquarist can benefit from making live brine shrimp a major part of their captive animals’ diets. With all of the above considerations in mind, most will fare best using a quality live product such as Nano Brine or the new Simple Brine!. For one, the cysts used to produce Nano Brine are carefully decapsulated and thus (1) exhibit the highest hatch rates, (2) are free of pathogens, (3) are maximally nutritious and (4) are safe for all species to eat. Best of all, packaging of the cysts used in Nano Brine is timed such that the product hatches just before arrival at your door, guaranteeing a nutritionally optimal feed. Now that Nano Brine is readily available through subscription, aquarists need not suffer the messes made or time consumed decapsulating, hatching and harvesting their own Artemia week after week. Individuals that are more than a couple of days old (post hatch) should be nutritionally enriched with OceanMagik™ just before you offer them to your fish. It’s really as simple as pouring a bag of delicious, healthful goodness into your reef!
– Their chitinous exoskeletons act as dietary roughage, thereby promoting digestive tract health in diverse animal groups.
– They have a protein content that is high enough to support normal growth and development in most marine species.
– Live Artemia swim in a motion that is irresistible to most fish, and so can be used to elicit a feeding response from recently imported or especially finicky specimens.
– Because they are slow swimmers, they are easily captured by slow-swimming fish such as seahorses.
– Live products have a generally broader and richer nutritional content than frozen products.
– Live products are less likely to foul the aquarium water than frozen products.
– They have a protein content that is high enough to support normal growth and development in most marine species.
– Live Artemia swim in a motion that is irresistible to most fish, and so can be used to elicit a feeding response from recently imported or especially finicky specimens.
– Because they are slow swimmers, they are easily captured by slow-swimming fish such as seahorses.
– Live products have a generally broader and richer nutritional content than frozen products.
– Live products are less likely to foul the aquarium water than frozen products.
Feeding Instructions
Before you dump your jar of Nano Brine Shrimp into your aquarium, check for movement in the jar. You should see what looks to be tiny dots swimming around.
If you do not see any movement and instead a large glob of brown at the bottom of the jar, this likely means the eggs did not hatch during transit.
If this happens, don't worry. You simply need to wait for the eggs to hatch. Remove the lid and let the jar sit at room temperature for up to 48 hours. The eggs usually hatch within 12-24 hours.
It is encouraged that you turn off all of your pumps and filtration until all of the shrimp is consumed.
Simply pour the jar into your aquarium and watch your fish feast like they never have before. Of course, corals will love this treat as well!
If you need to, you can spot feed the Nano Brine to a specific fish or coral.
Nano Brine can be enriched with OceanMagik live phytoplankton for an even more nutritious meal. To do this, add 1 oz of OceanMagik to the jar of Nano Brine.
Frequently Asked Questions
HOW DOES NANO BRINE BENEFIT MY TANK?
Nano Brine serves as a delicious snack for your fish and coral. Because the Nano Brine are live, they will trigger the live food feeding response. Not only is it entertaining to watch, but it can also get finicky fish to eat. Nano Brine also serves as an excellent distraction before you add copepods. This will help ensure that the fish will eat the brine shrimp while the copepods settle in.
WHAT WILL THE BRINE SHRIMP LOOK LIKE ON ARRIVAL?
Nano Brine will arrive in a jar. The brine shrimp should be visibly moving. If they are not, we recommend leaving them at room temperature so that they may hatch within 24-48 hours.
WILL BRINE SHRIMP REPRODUCE IN MY TANK?
It is unlikely that the brine shrimp will reproduce in a tank. This is because fish and coral tend to eat them before they can reach adulthood.
HOW SHOULD I STORE NANO BRINE?
We recommend leaving the jar at room temperature and the lid off. If you are storing Nano Brine for more than 24 hours, we recommend adding 1oz of OceanMagik to help enrich the brine shrimp.
HOW MANY BRINE SHRIMP DO I NEED FOR MY TANK?
We recommend 1 jar of Nano Brine per 25 gallons of water.
HOW FREQUENTLY SHOULD I ADD NANO BRINE TO MY TANK?
We recommend adding Nano Brine every time that you add copepods, but you can also feed them every now and then just to give your fish a treat. It is recommended you feed live Nano Brine once a month on average.
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