![]() ![]() If they're not happy with conditions or the water is toxic, they will stop producing live babies and switch to producing the very same 'eggs' you are trying to hatch out now. Healthy brine shrimp produce live babies. So, while using distilled or RO water is the very best way to go about mixing up salt water, using conditioned tap water is probably OK for brine shrimp and for less sensitive marine species.īut they're still sensitive creatures and if their water and tanks are not kept very clean and fresh, they will not do well. Most city water supplies have chloramines these days, as their disinfecting properties last so much longer in long city pipe runs. So, for them, it should not hurt to start with tap water, so long as it's conditioned to neutralize or bind the chlorine and/or chloramines that are in it. This gives them an accurate, very reliable and very repeatable result every time.īrine shrimp come from very hard, very mineralized water. So most dedicated marine fish keepers mix their water up using RO or DI water to start with. Tap water can vary widely, from the low 100's to over 500, and some marine fish are very sensitive to such differences. Marine keepers use a TDS meter, to measure Total Dissolved Solids, and DI and RO water have zero TDS. If they mix it up in tap water, they still get usable salt water, but it will not be exact, because all tap water has its own minerals, buffers and various other contents. So if they mix that up in RO or DI ( distilled) water, they get a very precise result. Fish like stability and sea salt mixes are very carefully balanced, to give the best possible result for marine fish. While all of them say you can use tap water, most dedicated marine keepers start with distilled or RO filtered water. Ideally, if you are mixing up artificial sea water, you use one of the many sea salt mixes that are available for marine fish keeping. As for why many sites say to use distilled water, there is a reason for that. Some come from water that is as much as 23 x saltier than the ocean is. Cute little critters.ĭepending just where the 'eggs' originated from, their needs for salinity can be quite high. ![]() They are nothing more or less than brine shrimp. ![]()
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