Re: BBS and salt (was-DEAD TRIPLE RED.)

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com>]

Susan C. Jorgensen wrote:

> I was wondering about this, too.  I have one of those black plastic cubes with
> a clear vial on top.  The vial has a plasic lid with a small hole in in, and
> the lid to the cube has an opening that accepts it.
>
> It draws the hatched shrimp into it because they're attracted to the light. I
> usually hatch in a mason jar, and then pour the whole thing into the cube when
> it's time to "harvest".  It works best when I can put the cube in the sunlight.
>
> I don't rinse the shrimp.  I put fresh water that's warmer than the brine into
> the vial, so the shrimp swim up into the fresh water (which I theorize stays
> relatively pure since it's lighter than the brine).  Is this enough to cleanse
> the salt from their systems?

I think the salt water would mix with the fresh faster than the brine shrimp would
enter the top of you commercial shrimpery.  Chemical thermodynamics or something
(P-chem was SO long ago).

Mike Wise

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