FEED FOR ADULT ARTEMIA

Sent: October 09, 2000

From: urbach agencies <urb77@isdn.net.il>

To: Artemia Characterization <artemia-l@email.sparklist.com>

QUESTION:

Can you please advise what is the best /cheap feed for raising adult Artemia?

We are an import and distribution company for food/feed items and involved in aquaculture and mariculture seafood products. Founded over 15 years ago, we are situated in Eilat, Israel. Our market comprises hotels, restaurants, supermarket chains, fish farms and the food industry throughout Israel.

Haim Urbach
URBACH AGENCIES
P.O.Box 3111 Eilat 88000 Israel
Physical site: New Industrial Park
Tel: 972-7-6377120
Fax: 972-7-6331399

E-mail:  orb777@isdn.net.il

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COMMENTS 1 :

Best cost-effective food for intensive culture of Artemia depends a little on scale of your culture. For small scale, live algae or dried algae preparates are handy but unfeasible (too expensive) for larger cultures. Then you better switch to finely grinded powders of rice bran, soy pellets or alikes or baker's yeast. The latter should be supplemented with vitamin of dry algae products since it cannot sustain Artemia cultures until the adult stages.

Jean Dhont

Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center
Ghent University - - Rozier, 44 - - 9000 Gent - - Belgium
tel: +32 9 264.37.54
fax: +32 9 264.41.93

E-mail: jean.dhont@rug.ac.be
site: http://www.rug.ac.be/aquaculture

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COMMENTS 2:

My experience is in semi-extensive level, I would say, in flow-through systems. I have found that food can be kept at an acceptable density with organic fertilization. It could be chicken manure, duck manure, goat manure, especially in dry way. My best result is with sea bird manure (called "guano" in Peru).

Italo Salgado

E-mail: isalgado@uct.cl

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