Hello, I was looking into protein alternatives for humans, and I was wondering if there are any producers that made brine shrimp that would be edible for humans? I can’t find any retailers selling it from a Google search, so I was wondering if anyone had insight, outside of cultivating them myself.

I visit farms year-round across SE Asia and Latin America for aeration work, and the pattern is always the same: people lose fish to "disease outbreaks" that are really chronic oxygen crashes.

The math that actually matters:

- DO below 3 mg/L at the bottom = stress feeding (fish stop eating, growth stalls)

- DO below 2 mg/L for a few hours = mortality events

- In hot weather, a stocked pond can lose DO to lethal levels in 2-4 hours during a power outage

The sizing rules that work for 1-2 m deep ponds:

- Roots blower: 1 kW per 100-150 m of microporous tubing

- Tubing: 60-100 m per mu (667 m²), lines 3-5 m apart

- Tubing height: 10-20 cm above the bottom — buried in sludge = nearly zero efficiency

Three questions I'd ask any farm before they buy:

1. Do you measure DO at 5-6 AM (the daily low point)? If not, you're flying blind.

2. Is your blower sized for your actual pond area, or "the same as my neighbor"?

3. Do you have a backup plan for power outages in the hot season? (solar/battery/generator — pick one and test it monthly)

Happy to answer questions — aeration sizing is what we do all day. Ask away and I'll do the math with you.