feeding brine shrimp

can I feed some brine shrimp to my candy cane?

can I just put the eggs into the tank?

 

Why not hatch them?

 

it would be easier to just put some eggs in the tank

 

You should do a little reading up on brine,there quite easy,I set up a brine factory for about $15,one part is for hatching eggs,the 2nd part is for feeding them to get a little bigger than larve.I wouldn't recomend putting eggs in the tank as a lot of fish will eat the eggs but cannot digest the shell and that can kill your fish.

 

I have some decapped eggs too would those be fine to put in the tank?

 

Not sure what you mean by decapped,do you mean no shell,just the egg??If so i wouldn't see no harm,I've just never seen shelled brine eggs,new to me,I hatch the old fashion way(sorta like sea monkeys but with an air pump)

 

to feed candy canes brine, use the 2liter top of a plasic bottle over coral. squirt food through top of opening let shrimp land on heads. give them a hour or two. and remove bottle top..

 

Yes, you can feed decapped brine shrimp cysts to your tank.
Personally I prefer to use live gut loaded rotifers.
Best time to do so is after the lights have been out for an hour or so when the feeding tentacles are already out searching for food.
As already mentioned, the cysts can lodge in the digestive tract of some fish rendering their digestive systems usless so that they starve to death.
The other problem is that they are known to harbour nasty bacteria like vibriosis and you don't want to chance loosing your tank over that when it's so easy to decapp, hatch and rinse before placing the nauplii in the tank.
I decap mine by placing a tablespoon of cysts in two cups of water in an inverted pop bottle and let soak for 1/2 hour.
I then aerate the water and cysts for one more hour to hydrate the cysts fully for the decap proceedure.
Then I add 1/2 cup of bleach and aerate for exactly 7 minutes. I then immediately rinse the cysts under the cold water tap using an appropriately size mesh or net for at least 4 minutes to stop the bleaching process and remove all traces of bleach.
I replace the cysts in the container with salt water and aerate. Depending on the temperature of the culture, the nauplii should hatch out within 16 to 24 hours.
At this point, you can feed them to whatever, but I prefer to grow them out to 24 hours after hatch out when they will have developed a mouth and anus, and then gut load them by adding Algamac 3050 or Algamac Protein Plus before I feed them to, in my case, seahorse fry.