Anyone ever use Instant Brine Shrimp?

[Urban_s]

I have been woundering about this stuff for a while. I am looking into getting a seahorse tank and this would make it a lot easier. Aquarium Fish Foods: Ocean Nutrition Instant Baby Brine Shrimp

[amcarrig]

Unless you're keeping dwarf seahorses or trying to raise the fry of larger species of horses, I don't see any need to buy that stuff. Heck, I don't even know what it is Is it live baby brine in a jar or dead baby brine in a jar? What kind of horses do you plan on keeping?

[MDeth]

I would be kind of wary...most people say brine is only useful if fed the day they are hatched ?
I'd just get frozen mysis cubes (they are SMALL shrimp in the cubes) which will be much more nutritious to the ponies

[rayjay]

First off, unless you are keeping dwarf seahorses or are raising seahorses, baby brine shrimp are of no value to you as adults don't eat them normally.
If you don't buy wild caught horses then you don't need live food. Feed captive bred frozen mysis.
You can gut load live adult brine shrimp with a variety of foods and use that for variability in a feeding program, and you can gut load adult brine with vitamins to get the vitamins to your horses easily.
You can get live adult brine shrimp from some LFS's or order online from livebrineshrimp.com.
The product at the link you linked to appears to be a manufactured food from the wording, and is not live baby brine shrimp so it's not a given that newborn horses will eat it.
If that's the case, you can decap brine cysts and put them in a tank and the cysts will stay in suspension a while until eaten. The advantage being that unhatched decapped cysts have full nutrient value whereas after hatching, the brine shrimp nauplii immediately begin feeding on the egg sack, therefore diminishing the value of the nutrient.

[Urban_s]

I dont know what kind of horses right now. The "boss" is kinda bugging me about it. Shes like I want seahorses you have all those tanks. Lol Anyone got a hex for sale?

[amcarrig]

Well, if it's your first try with seahorses, I suggest you stay away from both dwarf and wild caught seahorses because they're more for "expert" seahorse keepers. See if your lfs carries or can order you some tank raised hippocampus erectus when you're ready. Make sure that they're eating frozen mysis shrimp before you buy too

[djnzlab1]

HI,
I have four sea horses, I also fairly new to saltwater, here's a neat forum about keeping and feeding them. Mine love those myosis shrimp they manage to tear them to pieces and slurp them down and the seahorses are tiny right now maybe 1 1/2 inches.
They have powerful mouth parts and can blow a shrimp out of their shells like its a blow gun, they have to be close.
Water movement should be very slow they can handle flow veryl well,
I don't reccomend any kind of fish, with them I do have 2 peppermint shrimp that keep the rock clean but they may eat sea horse fry if they breed.
Doug

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they reccomend a special type of myosis thats gut loaded and dosen't stress the fish when they eat it.