raise baby brine shrimp to adult

[mohammadali]

does anybody raise baby brine shrimp ? and what do you feed them besides phytoplankon ?

[Myka]

They eat anything. Including eachother. I have a bottle of them bubbling away that I haven't fed anything to it for 2 months and it's still going strong. They eat eachother - it's like a complete cycle I guess! However, if you're planning to raise them for live food you can use fish food. Pellets or flakes doesn't matter, just feed a very, very, very tiny amount.

[mohammadali]

yea i wanna raise them for live food thanks

[rayjay]

I'd be interested in any documentation showing that they eat each other.
I've been raising and selling them for almost two decades and have yet to find any such information.
The most complete information available for artemia is found on the United Nations article Manual on the Production and Use of Live Food for Aquaculture (http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/w3732e/w3732e00.htm), scroll down to section 4.0 Artemia.
My page, although not updated in a long time, shows how I've progressed over time. Raising Brine Shrimp (Artemia) (http://www.angelfire.com/ab/rayjay/brineshrimp.html)
Basically I use spirulina powder from Brine Shrimp Direct for making the greenwater to feed them with, but I also add a bit of Algamac 3050 to assimilate a better fatty acid profile in the flesh, and then I enrich before feeding using the Algamac 3050 alone.