If you are working or want to go away for one day, and you have fry who need Brine Shrimp. Then this is the solution. This cost you not more then $ 5,00 or so. The Do It Yourself Brine shrimp Feeder.

Short working description:

Dropwise clear water is falling down from upper bottle to the lower  bottle. Lower bottle will overflow. While the drops from the lower  bottle contains Brine Shrimp So you can feed Brine Shrimp for  about 8 to 10 hours with a 1L bottle  This idea came from a Dutch Discus Breeder Frans Quakernaat  who is not always at home to feed the Fry Brine Shrimp. So he has  made the following automated Brine Shrimp Feeder wich cost are  about $ 5,00.

Description: This is a simple feeding mechanism which contains the following materials:

2 plastic bottle's 1 plastic water tap 1 air tube 1 airstone 1 tube (for overflow) 1 hanging mechanism

The methode works as follow, you fill the upper bottle with fresh water. Through the water tap you can regulate the water drop speed from the upper bottle to the lower bottle. In the lower bottle you do salt water with freshly hatched baby brine shrimp untill the tube did not overflow. Through the water drops from the upper bottle falling into the lower bottle, the lower bottle will be filled with water and therefore water with Brine shrimp will go through the overflow into the aquarium. This is tested and it works fine for these breeder and it is a good idea.

*Instead of using the upper bottle, you can also use à tube directly connected to a water tap.

*Instead of a water tap in the upper bottle you can make tis with a tube a siphon with a water tap to get a greater pressure.

This article/picture is written/designed by Walter Soestbergen with permission of Frans Quakernaat.

For reactions on the automated Brine Shrimp Feeder please contact Walter Soestbergen

You may not use this design for commercial purpose without permission from the creator. Use freely this Brine Shrimp feeder