How do you feed frozen brine shrimp

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Ok i bought a packet of frozen brien shrimp today to see if my axies would eat them. WHen the cub hits the water is seperates into 100's of little brine shrimp and make a big mess. So how you you feed it?

SInce it broke up so much i though my fish woudl like it and when i put a cube in they chased all the floating shrimp and ate them all up, so at least they can eat them and they wont go to waste.

Any suggestions?
 
hmmm... a huge rock underneath to catch them all? either that or put the cube into a small container with a bit of water and strain them out, mush em together and hope the cube stays intact?

not sure if you can re-freeze them but if you can (wait till someone else chirps in on this one) strain them out and mix them with gelatine and re-freeze. it doesnt taste like anything and as far as i know wont do anything to them.
 
Get a soy sauce dish, it will work to hold the little shrimp in place for your axies to eat
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If you have an asian market near by, they usually have them, or you can use a terra cotta pot. They have some dish shaped ones that are rather small too.
 
I feed my little axolotl frozen brine shrimp. All I do is chop off a piece of the cube and then hold it in tweezers in front of his face and he grabs it. This method might take quite awhile for a larger axolotl though, since they eat a lot more than my baby.
 
Easy peasy. Let it defrost.
Sink a small bowl or clean plastic lid.
Pick up the shrimps and pop it into the bowl.
Brineshrimp stays in bowl - axolotl will climb in. That's what Ziggy does
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yeah i agree with the putting it in a small dish method. works for me.
 
I'm using something similar with my bowl feeding of my axies. I defrost the blood worms I'm using (different food, similar problem) in a shot glass with a tiny bit of water, then carefully full it up and cover it with my fingers as I put it in the tank and pour them into a little pottery feeding bowl
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