Buy brine shrimp eggs - really not much choices as to brand in the area, so whatever you can find. Do NOT buy the eggs mixed with the salt mix.

Get an air pump (light duty or adjustable would be best).

I now use a flat sided, circular "goldfish" bowl for hatching.

Attach the airline, without stone, (airline suction cups work well) so that the air comes out close to the bottom of the bowl.

Fill bowl with tank water at a salinity of 1.018 or close to it. (So, use dirty tank water and add a little extra water to bring down salinty.) The dirty water seems to work better than the fresh mixed....

Soak brine eggs, about 3 tsp., in water for about 30 min.

Then add the eggs to the salt water fish bowl. Turn on air. Add light source (lamp is fine).

They should hatch within 24-36 hours.

Brine are phototrophic. Without light they will not hatch, and after hatching they will go towards the light.

Brine are nutritious within 4 hours of hatching. If you do not use them at that point, wait until they are about 24 + hours long and gut load them.

To do this remove the shrimp (not the egg cysts) from the hatch water. Put in clean, low salinity water (from tank, again). Add DT's, Tahitian Blend, Zoe, Zoecon.... some great nutritional sullpement. Le tthe Brine play in the enriched water for about 1 hr. Strain, rinse, and add to tank.


Does that help? I also decapsulate my brine.... but that adds an extra, easy to mess up step.