what do you feed brine shrimp?

[saltwater4life1]

Hey i was wondering what do you feed brine shrimp? i heard yeast is good but though i'd ask what you guys think.

Thanks
Nick

[Paintbug]

yeast works. live phytoplankton would be better. heres a little guide to culturing brine shrimp. http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/c123/What-are-the-guidelines-for-culturing-brine-shrimp-c119.html

[rayjay]

The easiest thing to use is cryopastes, but live phyto works best.
I have 3 twenty six gallon roughneck garbage containers and 2 twenty gallon garbage pails culturing phyto just to cut down on the costs of the cryopaste for my brine shrimp raising operation.
I started originally years ago using spirulina flake food, ground up, placed in the centre of a piece of dense cloth which I folded the edges up and twisted to form a spirulina ball. After soaking in salt water in a mug in the refrigerator overnight, I would place the "ball" in the brine shrimp container and massage it until it fogged the water lightly. It fogs easier the second and following times until used up, and I kept it in the mug in the refrigerator between uses.
I then switched to Tahitian Blend from Brine Shrimp Direct.
Because it costs so much to import the cryopaste here to Canada, I've trying to grow as much phyto as possible to cut costs.
RAISING BRINE SHRIMP TO ADULT (http://www.angelfire.com/ab/rayjay/brineshrimp.html)
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A picture of my part of my phyto growing operation for my brine shrimp.

http://www.angelfire.com/ab/rayjay/eF4.jpg

[saltwater4life1]

Where can i find cryopastes? And thx for all the info you must have alot of brine shrimp ;)

[Paintbug]

http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/c1/Algae-Pastes-c6.html this is one place.

[rayjay]

Yes, BSD's Tahitian Blend is excellent for brine shrimp, but live phyto is better, but more work.