bbs using baking soda?

[Mugwump]

http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/brineshrimp.htm

[BallAquatics]

That's what Mike Hellweg's book recommends too if you have soft water!

Dennis

[wallace]

I've heard of adding some baking soda with the salt to get the pH right, but he doesn't even put any salt in it.

[BallAquatics]

I've heard of adding some baking soda with the salt to get the pH right, but he doesn't even put any salt in it.

Well in nature, it's the absence of salt concentration that triggers the eggs to hatch.....

Normally the Great Salt Lake is all but saturated with sodium chloride and other salts. But each year, for a few short weeks following snow melt, vast quantities of freshwater come pouring out of the Wasatch Mountains into the Great Salt Lake. Since freshwater is lighter than brine, the snow melt forms a temporary freshwater ?lens? floating on the surface waters. When salt concentration drops below about twice the brininess of seawater, to less than 70ppt, the cysts hatch.

http://ballaquatics.com/general/bbs-101/

Dennis