Artemia Bioencapsulation I. Effect of Particle Sizes on the Filtering Behavior of Artemia Franciscana

The performance of microbial flocs produced with aquaculture waste as food for Artemia

“…In addition to the high nutritional value for fish, Artemia are easy to hatch and distribute as feed in aquaculture systems. As a non‐selective filter feeder, Artemia has been documented to feed on a wide range of food, such as micro‐algae, bacteria, protozoa and small detritus particles (Fernández, ). Traditionally, Artemia is cultured using animal waste, such as chicken manure (Verma, Raghukumar, & Naik, ) and pig manure (Sui et al., ), and algae‐rich green water as food sources (Sui et al., ).…”

Bioencapsulation of Florfenicol in Brine Shrimp, Artemia Franciscana, Nauplii

“…The reason for this difference may be due to the difference in particle size and how the drug is presented in the enrichment solution. NUFLOR is a liquid containing emulgators (n-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, propylene glycol, polyethylene glycol qs) and the florfenicol is associated to micelles when added to seawater whereas PF* consists of florfenicol particles in the range of 4 to 10 m, which is in the lower range for Artemia nauplii that normally graze on particles between 7 and 28 m, with an optimum of about 16 m (Fernandez, 2001). Furthermore, since Artemia nauplii have the ability to ingest particles as large as 70 m, it is obvious that blended AQUAFLOR premix gave a range in particle sizes with a higher preference as food particles for the nauplii than both PF* and NUFLOR.…”

“…Both are non-selective, continuous filter-feeding organism, grazing on particles from the surrounding water. For rotifers the optimal size of the particles was found to be in the range of 1.4 to 21 m, with highest selectivity for particles of 4.5 m (Vadstein et al, 1993;Hansen et al, 1997), whereas the preferred range for Artemia nauplii is approximately 7 to 28 m (Fernandez, 2001; Dhont and Van Stappen, 2003). Prior to be offered to the larvae, the rotifers and Artemia nauplii are given nutrients, vitamins, and essential oils, during an enrichment process.…”

Therapeutic effect of Artemia enriched with Escherichia coli expressing double-stranded RNA in the black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon

“…In this study, we are interested in using Artemia (brine shrimp), the most common live diets used in shrimp aquaculture, for delivering dsRNA to the black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) at post-larval stage. Through the filtration process, Artemia encapsulate various dietary components, such as pigment and essential nutrients, necessary for post-larvae (Fernández, 2001). A study by Subhadra and his group supported the use of Artemia nauplii to deliver antibody into shrimp for controlling viral diseases (Subhadra et al, 2010).…”