No more brine shrimp!

[Cincy Ranchu]

Check this out, I got this through the Aquaculture business, seems the FDA is going after a prime ingredient to anytype of fish keeping and aquaculture.

http://aquafeed.blogspot.com/2010/03/artemia-cysts-are-no-longer-permitted.html?utm_source=Aquafeed+English+Newslet ter&utm_campaign=9217e5174b-Aquafeed_Newsletter_03-18-10&utm_medium=email

Maybe we should buy eggs now!

[bluebelly]

I was also warned to stay away from frozen brine shrimp especially from the bay area for fear of virus contamination, and to avoid frozen smelt from Lake Erie because of possible virus contamination. This was only a warning, don't think any documentation to back this up.

[Corrie]

So the FDA has decided to shut down the second largest agriculture industry in the world.

I can't wait to see what they tell me I can eat, not eat, do, not do
under the new government IRS health plan. LOL

[Cincy Ranchu]

Makes you want to buy all the cysts you can find

[Corrie]

Wanna know an easy way to culture moina? :D

[afertuna]

Dave and gary,
If this continues what would be a good alternative? I go thru an ounce and a half of shrimp eggs a day. I just dont think that I can get daphnia to produce enough?
Allen

[bekko]

I suspect there is some baggage and animosity here that we are not privy to. Howard Newman is involved in a scheme to market an extract from a freshwater algae that will supposedly enhance migration of stem cells from the bone marrow to other parts of the body where they are needed. It is no secret that FDA does not look favorably on these types of herbal products which slip through a loophole in their regulatory framework.

The brine shrimp issue will not last long because it has been in use since before the "Generally Recognized as Safe" listings began and there is more than enough documentation on its use to have it grandfathered in.

-steve

[Cincy Ranchu]

Wanna know an easy way to culture moina? :D

I'm in, I have a seasonal outdoor culture of something but I only get 4 or 5 feedings a year

[bluebelly]

This is an issue of end use. If the eggs are treated and not properly identified as to chemical use or sterilizing technique, will these end up feeding fish that feed us.

[George Ludrosky]

Should I understand that this new ban is on Imported? What if the eggs were produced in the US?

I am not too fond of the FDA. They made me pull all of my fish food that had Tetracycline in it. I can use it on my fish but they say that I can not sell it. Yet they will allow fish food with sulfathiazole and nitrofurazone.

[Corrie]

"will these end up feeding fish that feed us. "

If that's their reasoning, that doesn't even make sense.

BS is too expensive, so even if it's necessary for some food fish (shrimp, etc) they are taken off it ASAP. I can't think of anything that would be in BS that would still be in the finished product = food fish that you eat.
Especially in any amount that would even matter.

If I had to guess, I'd say it's only about the money.
Seems the FDA has discovered that this has been going on - untaxed, and it's something else they can regulate - tax.

[Cincy Ranchu]

I bought some cans just incase it gets crazy:youtellme:

[TheTruth]

you can take the yellow of a hard boiled egg and strain it through a brine shrimp net into the babies tank.you must use only a little at a time and be very careful not to overfeed as this will foul the tank.after several weeks you can grind flakes which the babies will eat.as soon sa they can pick and eat pellets feed wardleys shrimp pellets.this pellet sinks and breaks down without fowling the water.the babies will grow like crazy on this stuff.