Brine shrimp in a neerly cured tank?

[adrinal]

Hi I have a 75g tank switching from FO to reef
I was wondering while I am waiting for the extra LR (4 chunks about 30lb) is curring (been 2 weeks so far), if I could add some hatched brine shrimp?

1) would they grow in the tank?

[I do have some pods , If I take a minute I will see 3-5 if I search hard at night. I would guess pods would eat smaller brine shrimp to extinction in a closed environment, is that true?]

[adrinal]

oh right, my point is would the brin shrimp eventually breed and establish in the aquarium?

[Reefmedic79]

Most commercial brine shrimp are actually either fresh water species or Low salinity species therefore wouldn't survive in a reef tank. Also as far as I know most pods live of phyto aside from scavenging so adding a little phyto might help to establish a pod population.

[adrinal]

Thanks

[psiico]

Yeah, they'll need phyto or they'll starve. And your powerheads will likely kill them as well. I feed live brine to my tank and they always die. Or get eaten, lol. Usually both.