PokeSephiroth
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So, with all my little axolotl larvae hatching... I've started hatching baby brine shrimp, and have come up with a couple questions, that you guys and gals might be able to answer.
I recall reading and being told, that it is absolutely necessary to aerate the water, during the hatching process, and also helps keep them alive... and if you were to cut off the bubbles, then any newly hatched brine shrimp would end up dying in several minutes or so.
With that in mind, I remember as a kid, having Sea-Monkeys, and I remember that hatching the eggs didn't involve having the water being aerated, and they hatched and survived just as easily, without the use of some kind of bubbler.
Why is that? Am I missing something here? Is it because Sea-Monkeys are some sort of hybridized/hulked up version of your regular brine shrimp that can withstand stagnant water/lack of aeration? If that's the case, then why haven't scientists taken advantage of this, and start selling those in the market, for people who hatch brine shrimp to feed to their fry?
Basically, what I'm trying to ask is:
Why was I able to hatch Sea-Monkeys without using an air stone, and how come regular brine shrimp (non-Sea-Monkeys), require the use of an air stone in order to hatch and survive?
I'm well aware that there are these Brine Shrimp Hatching Dishes, that don't require any form of aeration, so maybe there's something to it that I'm just missing here...
I recall reading and being told, that it is absolutely necessary to aerate the water, during the hatching process, and also helps keep them alive... and if you were to cut off the bubbles, then any newly hatched brine shrimp would end up dying in several minutes or so.
With that in mind, I remember as a kid, having Sea-Monkeys, and I remember that hatching the eggs didn't involve having the water being aerated, and they hatched and survived just as easily, without the use of some kind of bubbler.
Why is that? Am I missing something here? Is it because Sea-Monkeys are some sort of hybridized/hulked up version of your regular brine shrimp that can withstand stagnant water/lack of aeration? If that's the case, then why haven't scientists taken advantage of this, and start selling those in the market, for people who hatch brine shrimp to feed to their fry?
Basically, what I'm trying to ask is:
Why was I able to hatch Sea-Monkeys without using an air stone, and how come regular brine shrimp (non-Sea-Monkeys), require the use of an air stone in order to hatch and survive?
I'm well aware that there are these Brine Shrimp Hatching Dishes, that don't require any form of aeration, so maybe there's something to it that I'm just missing here...