Nutritive Evaluation and Growth Rate of Artemia parthenogenetica

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Present study establishes the supply of nutritionally balanced feed and attempt to different food fed with Artemia such as rice bran (RB), algae (Chlorella vulgaris) and RB + algae given for growth of Artemia parthnogenetica. The survival and growth rate of A. parthnogenetica was identified with three types of food and total growth rates were measured. The maximum (7.14 ± 0.16 mm) and minimum (6.24 ± 0.21 mm) growth was identified after 26 days with Artemia feed (RB + algae). This concluded that the combination of algae (mixture feed) can be applied in the cultivation of highest growth of A. parthnogenetica.
Keywords: Nutrition, live feed, artificial feed, growth, Artemia parthnogenetica