{"id":331,"date":"2013-12-09T11:48:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=331"},"modified":"2015-06-21T00:53:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T04:53:58","slug":"brine-shrimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2013\/12\/09\/brine-shrimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Brine Shrimp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brine_shrimp\" title=\"Brine Shrimp\" target=\"_blank\">Brine shrimps<\/a> are tiny little crustaceans that usually live in lakes with really high salt concentration.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason they are also called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sea-Monkeys\" title=\"Sea Monkey\" target=\"_blank\">Sea Monkeys<\/a> &#8212; probably a clever marketing ploy.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThey are aquacultured and sold as fish food either alive, frozen or dried.<\/p>\n<p>Adult brine shrimps sort of look like creatures from a horror movie:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KI82RAKftI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The brine shrimp eggs are also sold dried and they can survive out of the water for years and can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cichlid-forum.com\/articles\/diy_brineshrimp_hatchery.php\" title=\"Brine Shrimp Hatchery\" target=\"_blank\">hatched in relatively simple home set ups<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) are called baby brine shrimp and they are an important food for feeding fish fry.<\/p>\n<p>They can be reared to adulthood and used as adult brine shrimp which is not considered as good a fish food source as the baby brine shrimp but it is easier to produce a larger bulk or grown brine shrimp than babies.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about brine shrimps click on the links below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.westminstercollege.edu\/faculty\/tharrison\/gslfood\/studentpages\/brine.html\" title=\"Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp\" target=\"_blank\">Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ut.water.usgs.gov\/greatsaltlake\/shrimp\/\" title=\"Brine Shrimp and Ecology of Great Salt Lake\" target=\"_blank\">Brine Shrimp and Ecology of Great Salt Lake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brine shrimps are tiny little crustaceans that usually live in lakes with really high salt concentration. For some reason they are also called Sea Monkeys &#8212; probably a clever marketing ploy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,12,26,22,31,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}