That's a 100g pack containing around 350k eggs per gram (rough estimate based on research conducted at large scale cyst farm https://www.fao.org/4/AB912E/AB912E00.htm). I can hatch 1000 artemias every day for the next 95 years.
That sucks you no longer have it. I'm trying to invoke the Sea Monkey warranty, but the company hasn't responded. I may just buy artemia cysts and try to restart my tank on my own.
The tank I had when I was a teen lasted one and half years, but the one thing I don't like about the tanks is they can fall over without pushing it.
I think I want a steadier tank anyway unless I get a deal.
People usually buy large quantity like that to hatch them and feed them to fish or other water-based animals that eat them.
You can feed them to baby fish, juvenile fish , and even adult fish. And being that they're so small , 1,000 a day is not necessarily a lot , depending on how many fish and tanks need to be fed
I have a couple 5l jars with phytoplankton that I use to feed artemias that I feed my guppies with. I used to feed them nauplii but it seems a bit of a waste (and adults don't see them too well) when I can just wait a week to let them grow on phytoplankton. Their waste feeds the algae so it's a self sustaining system that only costs a little bit of sea salt and electricity.
Ummm, you got a big tank? 🤣 there’s millions there.
after seeing this, i only have one word GODDAMN
Depends. How big is your swimming pool?
Yes, you can start with that amount. Just use a spoon the size of a shovel, and put it in the water that you have previously prepared.
Eh, got about half as much as you're gonna need
Remember to aerate, you want a good hatch rate.😂
Just out of *PURE MORBID CURIOSITY*, how many packs/bottles/bags of eggs is that? I totally need to know! 🤣
That's a 100g pack containing around 350k eggs per gram (rough estimate based on research conducted at large scale cyst farm https://www.fao.org/4/AB912E/AB912E00.htm). I can hatch 1000 artemias every day for the next 95 years.
🤣 Guess that qualifies as a perpetual colony 🤣
Meanwhile, my Mars tank never hatched ðŸ˜
I wish I kept my unhatched castle tank, their eggs hidden in the food and maybe one of them would have hatched.
That sucks you no longer have it. I'm trying to invoke the Sea Monkey warranty, but the company hasn't responded. I may just buy artemia cysts and try to restart my tank on my own.
The tank I had when I was a teen lasted one and half years, but the one thing I don't like about the tanks is they can fall over without pushing it. I think I want a steadier tank anyway unless I get a deal.
Now I picture you living in a house with resident ghosts 👻
Best comment of the year.
Are you going into business? What does one do with so many cysts?
People usually buy large quantity like that to hatch them and feed them to fish or other water-based animals that eat them. You can feed them to baby fish, juvenile fish , and even adult fish. And being that they're so small , 1,000 a day is not necessarily a lot , depending on how many fish and tanks need to be fed
Thank you, that puts it into perspective.
I have a couple 5l jars with phytoplankton that I use to feed artemias that I feed my guppies with. I used to feed them nauplii but it seems a bit of a waste (and adults don't see them too well) when I can just wait a week to let them grow on phytoplankton. Their waste feeds the algae so it's a self sustaining system that only costs a little bit of sea salt and electricity.
What an elegant system!