1 Quart water
1 cup sugar, non-iodized salt, powdered borax
1/8 cup cure

Mix it all together and stir until a majority of them dissolve, won't get a complete dissolve unless you heat it.

Some say to heat it to get full dissolve but I don't and have had bad results with eggs doing that. I normally leave mine for 2 days in the brine.

AuntyM, I may try that but as kinda leary of them exploding because of the soft nature of the sand shrimp. Worth a try but will make sure the wife is at work when I do.

Twitch, How long is a LONG time? If you can keep them alive for that long in an aquarium I have a 55 gallon barrel that is begging to be used for something.

Anyone that tries the aquarium idea, a little advice. Set it up long before you ever add the shrimp. This gives the tank a chance to get the bacteria it needs to process ammonia and cycle the bad stuff quickly so your sand shirmp don't die right away. I will go through the whole cycle and setup thing if someone wants me to but best advice is to set it up, get the filters runing and then drop in a prawn. Let this run for a couple weeks or until the prawn is gone. Then add some shrimp, maybe 10, likely to die. Then add more until they stay alive and then slowly increase the numbers you add. I would bet you can even feed them some fish flakes crushed up since they are filter feeders.