decapsulated brine shrimp eggs

[Samw]

I want to feed my gorgonians baby brine shrimp without needing to hatch them. This means either frozen baby shrimp or decapsulated eggs. I will probably get the decapsulated eggs. Out of curiosity though, they called them "Non-Hatching". Does this mean that they won't hatch at all? That's odd. I thought they would.

http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/dec...ne-shrimp.html

http://www.saltlakeshoreline.com/pro...products_id=46

Next, I'm looking for a place to get these in Canada. Any suggestions? I could get them from brineshrimpdirect but I don't want to pay UPS a $20 brokerage fees to get a $12 item. The 2nd place seems to only ship within the US. I will search some more.

[Aquattro]

Sam, Steve ordered stuff from brineshrimpdirect without using UPS. The sent it postal, I believe.

[Veng68]

Yeah.......... ask if they send USPS.......... brokerage fee is $5 cdn

Cheers,
Vic [veng68]

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Veng68

Yeah.......... ask if they send USPS.......... brokerage fee is $5 cdn

Cheers,
Vic [veng68]

nope no brokerage with USPS at all. you still pay there shipping and handling price though (I think they charge for bundeling it up) but e-mail them first and state you do not want UPS and will they ship your order USPS. when they reply yes ask them if there is any special instructions you should put on your order to let them know how you wand it shipped.

Steve

[seanic aquarium]

Decapped Brine eggs are for feeding purposes only and not hatching. For some reason the cyst is not going to hatch after they decap them. They are a good food source and there is no risk of introducing hydroids in the your tank.
Aaron

[zulu_principle]

You can decap the brine shrimp eggs on your own.

All you need to do is put them in bleach for about 45 minutes. Hatch out is 8 hours instead of 24.

See Clownfishs by Wilkerson for a full description of the process.


Wendell

[BCOrchidGuy]

I don't know why the Brine shrimp Cysts from BSD won't hatch out but they say they wont so I wouldn't try. I'd stick with hatching out BBS on my own, it's easy and you can put some green water or nanochloropsis paste from Wendel and or some Selco to help make them good and rich. The reason I'd stick with live bbs is that you'll find that other stuff in the tank will eat it better than a bunch of dust (decaped cysts) I'd rather use golden pearls if it were me.

Doug

[Samw]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

nope no brokerage with USPS at all.

Hi Steve. Yes, Canada Post does charge a $5 brokerage fee but I think only if the item is over a certain amount of money and they need to collect taxes for the gov't. That's when they charge the $5 fee.

Here's what I found:

http://www.canadapost.ca/personal/to...b06-e.asp#c006

"Gifts from friends and relatives, valued at $60CDN or less, are duty and tax exempt. Goods imported into Canada, valued at $20CDN or more, are subject to all duties and taxes."

"Canada Post has taken over many of the material-handling and revenue-collection functions previously performed by Canada Customs. A handling fee of $5CDN per dutiable or taxable mail item is applied. "

So looks like no fee for me for under $20. Great.

[Samw]

I wanted to go with decap eggs because I was hoping that eatened eggs would hatch and not pollute the water. The price of decap eggs was the same as the non-decap eggs so it seemed to make sense to not decap my own.

[BCOrchidGuy]

Sam if you decap them yourself you can hatch them out like Wendel said in about 8 hours. So you could set up some bbs in the morning and feed them to your tank in the evening. As long as you've got some phytoplankton in the water the bbs will survive.

Doug