Feedstuff for artemia
AssigneeThe Nisshin Oil Mills, Ltd.
InventorsKiyohiro Kitagawa, Eiji Kojima, Akira Seto, Shuichi Sakamoto, Takuji Nozawa
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Abstract
A feedstuff for cultivating Artemia as a feedstuff for larvae of cultivated fishes or crustaceans is provided, which feedstuff for cultivation is a product obtained by treatment of breaking the cell wall of monocellular algae, the thus obtained Artemia having a high survival rate, the body length thereof being large and the content of eisacopentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid in the total fatty acids therein being much higher than those of conventional feedstuffs.
Claims5
A process for cultivating Artemia which comprises collecting Artemia nauplius after hatching and cultivating the Artemia by using unicellular algae having its cell wall disrupted as a feedstuff, said cell wall being disrupted by at least one of spray dry treatment, ultrasonic wave treatment, milling treatment, electromagnetic wave treatment or cell wall lytic enzyme treatment, said unicellular algae being selected from the group consisting of freshwater Chlorellas, marine Chlorellas, Euglenophyceae, Diatomeae, Tetraselmis and Cyanophyceae.
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