A few weeks ago, I'd gotten the idea to breed a species of brine shrimp. My name's already Artyom, and what better species than Artemia? Perhaps, I'll call them Artemia Artemia. Jokes aside, let us get to the brass tacks of this project / operation.
My motivation for this is due to my personal dissatisfaction with the brine-loving nature of regular Artemia species. They cannot tolerate the high salinity of a reef tank, and they can't tolerate the low-salinity freshwater in a river or lake tank.
While I love regular shrimp, I did want something a bit more exotic and interesting - triops, are, unfortunately, while fantastic little creatures in their own right - and incredibly hardy - a poor choice for a permanent "cleanup-crew" member. They depend on a cycle of drying-flooding to reproduce, and cannot live longer than a few months.
As such, "freshwater brine shrimp", here we come.
I began my experiment quite simply - seeing just how little salt brine shrimp can survive on, and seeing if I can create a sustained culture of them in a low-salinity environment. If it goes well, I will split the culture into four different components. The low-salt culture will be taken from my normal-salinity brine culture, which I'd been developing for a few months. It's getting to a point where it's a nice blend of reproducing brine shrimp, with a variety of sizes - from baby brine shrimp, to adults.
From my research, understanding, and intuition, baby brine shrimp (which I will refer to as BBS from now on) are hardier than adults. They can tolerate higher levels of ammonia, and stress. Unfortunately, I do not expect many of the adults to survive.
I will take the original
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