COMBO 3 PACK BRINE SHRIMP EGGS +MICRO WORM CULTURE + VINEGAR EELS THEY ARE VERY VERY GOOD FOR YOUR FISH FRY AND LOOKING AFTER THEM IS REALLY EASY. .. BRINE SHRIMP EGGS many happy customers with great hatch rate Use these for:         · Betta from hatching to sub-adult         · Corydoras from fry to 1/2 inch sup-adults         · Newts         · Salamanders         · Apistogramma fry to 1/2 inch         · Killifish from fry through adult         · Gourami from 1/4 inch through adult         · Guppy and livebearer fry through adult brine shrimp are a great food for new baby fish or you can grow them on to adult size to feed bigger fish. Each purchase contains thousands of eggs so you will have a constant food source for quite a while. These can make any breeder a success with raising fish fry.(both salt and fresh water) Brine shrimp are a common food source used for both larval and adult fishes. The ease of hatching eggs and the commercial availability of the adult stage has made it a popular food source. Brine shrimp nauplii emerging from their protective shells are extremely small, mostly less than 500 µm but can differ according to origin. Brine shrimp nauplii are an excellent live food, not only for fry but also for adults of the smaller species. However, they are not suitable as a first food for all fry; some fry are so small that they will require microorganisms. Brine shrimp nauplii can live in freshwater for around 4-5 hours before they die, making them an ideal live food for small fry. HATCHING INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Add a maximum of 3 gr of artemia per 1 liter of water.(you will need to remove the chlorine from the water for best results) If you are feeding only a small amount of fry you will only require half to one gram per liter of water. 2. Be sure to use 1 tablespoon of aquarium salt per liter(make sure you only use un-iodized salt-preferably rock salt) 3. The optimal pH level is 7.5-8.5. 4. The optimal water temperature is 28-30°C (82°F).(cooler the temp. the longer the hatching time) 5. The best hatching time is 24-30 hours. 6. Forced airing is necessary to keep all eggs in suspension all the time. 7. After hatching harvest and rinse the nauplii keep your unused eggs in an air tight container in a cool place.(the fridge is a great place) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MICRO WORM CULTURE THEY ARE VERY VERY GOOD FOR YOUR FISH FRY AND KEEPING THE CULTURE GOING IS REALLY EASY. ONCE YOU BUY THESE YOU WILL HAVE AN ENDLESS SUPPLY (they just keep breeding) YOU WILL HAVE THE CULTURE FOR GOOD. Use these for:     · Betta fry to 1/4 inch     · Corydoras fry and sub adults to 3/4 inches     · Larval Newts and Sallies     · Frog Tadpoles     · Apistogramma fry to 1/4 inch     · Killifish fry to 1/2 inch     · Gourami fry to 1/4 inch     · Guppy fry to 1/4 inch     · Most fry until you want to offer Grindal worms Micro worms (Panagrellus redivivus) are sometimes known under the synonym Panagrellus silusiae and have been cultured by aquarists since the early 1930's as a live food for a variety of fish species. Their small size and ease of culture has received renewed attention in recent years with rising costs and declining hatch rates of brine shrimp eggs sold in the aquarium hobby. Micro worm has as good if not better nutritional profile to that of brine shrimp, containing 48% protein, 21% lipids, 7% glycogen, 1% organic acids, and 1% nucleic acids. Approximately 70% of the lipids are fatty acids and the remainder is phospholipids. Micro worms are a tiny nematode about 0.5 to 2.0 mm in length and 0.05 mm in diameter. Males have a curved tail, are smaller, more slender, and less numerous than the females. They reproduce sexually and are livebearers; releasing 10-40 young every 1-2 days for a 20-25 day life span. The young reach sexually maturity in approximately three days. Their size increases by three times during the first day and five to six times during the next three days. Micro worms are one of the simplest live foods to culture. When cultured under the right conditions they will multiply in vast numbers. They are a valuable live food and tolerant of environmental variables. Micro worms like it warm and a temperature range of between 25 and 28° Celsius is about right. Although they will tolerate cooler and warmer temperatures, they will not increase in numbers as well. They have the added advantage of staying alive for six to eight hours in freshwater, by which time they should all have been eaten. these are one of the best Fry Foods around, CULTURING INSTRUCTIONS: you will need.: Chinese container or similar Rolled Oats Water Just get yourself a chinese container or similar and add some rolled oats(make like normal-slightly thick-allow to cool) to the bottom and spread about 1/4 inch thick. Place contents of culture onto rolled oats add a few drops of water aand add water every few days. put a 1/4 inch hole in the lid (for air) and place a small peice of cotton wool in the hole.(to prevent flies from entering the culture) keep warm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VINEGAR EEL CULTURE Use these for: · Betta fry when newly hatched · Corydoras fry when newly hatched · Apistogramma fry at free swimming · Killifish fry when newly hatched · Gourami newly hatched to 1/4 inch · when fry are too small for microworms · when fry are too small for baby brine shrimp Talk about an easy food to culture! If you have too much trouble with this food, you probably kill grass on a spring day. You may be asking, "Why vinegar eels and not some other food?" We have found that the lowly vinegar eel has some advantages over other similarly sized foods. The most commonly cultured food of a similar size (vinegar eels have a maximum size of about 1/16th of an inch , or about 2 mm) is the microworm (Panagrellus sp. or Anguillula edivivu (silusiae ). We use this food as a transitional food from greenwater and infusoria into baby brine shrimp and Microworms. However, the microworm, while easy to culture and harvest falls through the water column and then rests on the bottom or substrate in the tank. Vinegar eels can survive for days, weeks perhaps, in water. Most live foods fed to fish are not truly aquatic and can die within hours of their introduction into the tank. Vinegar Eels are a good for larvae newts and fish you can use a chinese container or anything similar to put your culture in...although size of container will determine production capacity. The culture will be ready to harvest in a month so some advanced planning is necessaary. After the one-month has passed, there are a couple of options. If one does not need to feed any fish at the time, one can start a second culture with a small portion of the first. If there has been some fluid loss from evaporation, the vessel can be topped off with regular tap water. If one is ready to feed to fish, harvesting the eels is now possible. We use a different method to harvest now, but it is possible to use a small baster and draw some eel laden fluid up and transfer it into a funnel with a coffee filter inside it.Vingar Eels are an easy food for fish and newts When one thinks that enough eels are harvested (generally two basters full), we wait a couple of minutes to let the fluid drain back into the mother culture. We then run a gentle stream of cold fresh water through the same coffee filter/funnel contraption and let them drain a bit. When the water has drained, we repeat the washing routine. We next turn the filter inside out and swish the inverted filter into a cup of water. We generally had a number of tanks to feed so we tended to swish the filter into a beaker of water and using an eyedropper, feed from the beaker of eels. CULTURING INSTRUCTIONS: you will need.: Coffee Jar or similar Apple Cider Vinegar Water Apple In a jar we add ½ of an apple. After we place the apple into the jar, we fill the container about 3/4 full of tap water and apple cider vinegar. (The water does not need to be de-chlorinated). The ratio of water to apple cider vinegar is approximately 1:1 (or 50/50). put a 1/4 inch hole in the lid (for air) and place a small peice of cotton wool in the hole.(to prevent flies from entering the culture) keep warm. FEEL FREE TO CALL WITH ANY QUESTIONS. Phone 0410 404273 Brian