How to grow live microalgae to feed your Sea-Monkeys / Brine Shrimp

A tutorial guide for how to culture live algae to feed to your brine shrimp / sea-monkey culture.

Live micro-algae, aka green water, is the secret to sustaining a long-term healthy colony of brine shrimp. In this video I give instructions for how to grow and culture algae, and my method for feeding it to the artemia. I show the algae under a microscope and show a time lapse of the algae growth.
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[emiliov]

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[pico-cosmos]

Hey guys 👋 this will be my last video for a few weeks. I'm heading overseas for work and won't have any internet access during that time. Looking forward to creating more content for you all in October ✌

[Woodlouse]

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[d.j.]

More of cultivating live algea ! This topic is really important. Maybe more on how to keep maintaining your live culture like how often do we add more fertilizer or what do you do to maintain It ? Thanks!

[SilkZPlays]

I was researching shrimp and stumbled upon your videos. .and I have to say. .you sir are amazing. Not only do you give all the information you need but also give some helpful side tips you've learnt along your adventure which no one I've seen seems to think of. Your delivery is absolutely outstanding, the way you talk is not enjoyable but also very easy to follow. . .as a fellow NZ I recently got my first sea monkey pack (went for the mars one) and following your tips and info they are flourishing and my obsession of these forever curious little sausages is growing more and more. Enjoy your time away and I definitely be waiting for the next upload 😅

[coxybrothers]

These tips are great. Watch your videos everyday as I got two tanks for christmas and it is my first time with sea monkeys.

[pandasbabydreams]

Thank you so much for making this video! I follow you on IG as well and remember asking about a microalgae video. We all appreciate this so much! With your tips, I've done so much better with my sea monkeys. Now I will be able to harvest microalgae too. Keep up the amazing work! You're awesome!

[SonOfFurzehatt]

The reason the fertiliser comes in two parts is to avoid precipitation. For example, phosphate will precipitate if it combines with calcium or magnesium.

[thombaz]

That microalgie microscope part where something is eating the lgae is really amazing. You are good at microscope-video making, maybe you should do it more, really nice, thanks.

[dlpnkpm]

I love the tank with the transparent lid, looks great, there's so many sea monkeys too.

[dizzydragon]

You can use a tiny bit potassium nitrate (saltpeter) and matchheads, then wait till You have the whole jar full of green to make sure that the nitrate was digested by the algae, it is basically the same nutrients that the algae fertilizers use. ironically if it wasnt for the water, that would be rocket fuel, fairly inexpensive saltpeter costs like 50 cents for a quarter of a kilogram

[eddvcr]

Your videos are wonderful resources for cultivating happy and robust brine shrimp colony. I definitely want to give it a try now. Thank you!

[WolfmanLarryTalbot]

I started my micro-algae culture today based on your video. Awesome job!! I saw the Sea-Monkey sneak out. HAHAHA. I plan to remove equal water to what I put in and refresh the water from the Sea-Monkey tanks into the Mico-Algae tank. Any Sea-Monkeys from eggs that hatch will be transfered to a Sea-Monkey Tank. Also, I thik this provides a water change for the tank over time.

[Bit_Studio]

This video is very informative I might start a farm for algae thanks :D

[timwolfe]

Great video (as always)! I am starting my own algae colony, and was wondering how often you fertilize the colony once it is established. Thanks for all of the great tips!

[chillybilly]

Great video. Is there any way of buying a starter culture of live Algae for those of us who are impatient or don't see any Algae growing for a long period of time?

[mrchicken]

love these videos, I really like how a lot of your videos have info that is hard to find in most places. I was wondering, what do I do if I have a new tank with no algae at all? how do I get it then?

[YazinZ_]

Brine shrimps are amazing just they they swim and grow to how they keep staring at me its
honestly interesting its almost they are too intelligent for they’re size!

[caffienatedtactician]

Awesome video!!!
Would algae growing in like. A flower vase work for a starter culture!

[cosmicmoonfrost]

Thanks again for the great video. I have purchased a phytoplankton culture kit, which contains a vial of highly concentrated phytoplankton. I will be using the kit to cultivate a little algae colony to feed my guys. However, could I add a small drop of the concentrated phytoplankton to my Sea Monkeys tank since the conditions are probably great for getting it to grow (I have a mini heater, air line and grow lights). I will still go ahead with the separate algae colony but I wondered if I could get a head start by adding live phytoplankton into the tank.