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Those shrimp know their greens. Dandelions are actually quite nutritious. Most people are familiar with the common lawn infesting type, but there are also cultivars that many gardeners grown on purpose. They can have a bite to them, especially older leaves, but the younger more tender new growth is milder. Kinda like a cheap bitter green for your salad. I'll have to try some with my shrimp.

badflash wrote: I pick a bunch and put it in a pint container with enough plain water to cover, then zap for 5 minutes. Drain, rinse & serve.

zap for 5min?

microwave oven

Yes, basically boil for 3 minutes. Zap means to microwave on high.

cant say ive every heard the term zap used with that meaning always a first. Nuke it is more like it.

Kale, parsley and dill are also high in calcium and loved by shrimp.

Shrimp&Snails wrote:Kale, parsley and dill are also high in calcium and loved by shrimp.

Do you microwave any of these?

Yes I microwave them.

I either feed them a little of the leaves or make them into my "Critter Crisps".

The 100 micron "golden pearls" seem to be working well. I use the tiniest pinch twice a day and the larva are readily eating them. Within a few minutes of adding them I can see just about every larva with a tiny bead in its arms. The algae is pretty strong in this tank too all on its own. The brine shrimp are still going strong so the water quality is pretty good still.

I scrape the bottom once a week, and push it into one corner away from the light. Then I use a turkey baster to suck the goop up without getting the larva. I then measure the salinity and make up water to the tank depending on how it is doing. Been keeping it between 35 and 36 ppt.

As I stirred the tank tonight I saw something I didn't see last time around. There is a far more advanced larva than I've seen before. This one is reddish brown and capable of deliberate hunting of food. Very active and while still upside down in tail hanger mode, is almost a shrimp. I am very pleased with this batch.

I also captured a batch of around 30 zoes tonight the day after the water change. These will go into the salt tomorrow AM. Looks like most of the ones from the last water change are still there.

Now that I have zoes from several hatches all together I can gauge how much they grow. The largest is probably 5 times the length of the ones I put in last night. The big brown ones look almost like shrimp. I think this may be the last molt. Lets see if they make it. They may be big enough for me to get a picture.

No pictures. The green water is just too green. I can see them, just can take pics. If I see a post larval on the botton I'll get a pic for sure. I've worked to hard not to get that.

I was wrong. Two of the largest have now become mysid like shrimp. Very active and shrimp like at this stage. They look just like the one in figure 8 at
http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/breeding_yamato.htm