The effect of feeding with different microalgae on survival, growth, and fatty acid composition of Artemia franciscana metanauplii and on predominant bacterial species of the rearing water

Substitution of microalgae by bioflocs as a food source for the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana

“…Although the bioflocs produced in our study contained significantly less protein and lipid than the microalgae used, this was not reflected in the proximate composition of the Artemia fed under different feeding regimes. In our study, protein, lipid and ash content of Artemia fed on bioflocs was in the range of previous studies, which reported 45%–58% protein and 9%–19% lipid for Artemia fed with bioflocs (Anh et al, 2009), aquaculture effluent (Gharibi et al, 2021) and microalgae (Turcihan et al, 2021), with the ash content in our study being in the range of the first two studies (11%–22%).…”

“…In the present study, the amounts of fatty acids in cultured Artemia were affected by the diet, as treatments fed more bioflocs had significantly higher levels of C18:1n-9, ARA, EPA, MUFA and total n-6 PUFA. Our results on EPA (except from the control treatment), DHA, ARA and ALA were in the range of values reported in Artemia fed on microalgae as a main food supplemented by bioflocs and in Artemia fed on aquaculture effluent (Toi et al, 2013;Gharibi et al, 2021), whereas LA and DHA were, respectively, higher and lower than ranges reported in the literature (respectively, 14-17 and 6-8 mg g −1 DW (Toi et al, 2013;Turcihan et al, 2021). These differences may be due to the different types of food offered to Artemia, including the strains of microalgae, quality and quantity of produced bioflocs, and the ratio of microalgae and of bioflocs in the diet.…”

Early life cycle description and effects of microalgal diets on larval and post‐larval development of the mangrove cockleAnadara tuberculosa(Sowerby, 1833)

“…In aquaculture, microalgae are considered an essential resource, being one of the most important food sources in the early stages of fish (Reitan et al, 1997;El-Khodary et al, 2021), molluscs (Maquirang et al, 2020;Yang et al, 2021), crustaceans (Abd Rahman et al, 2018;Turcihan et al, 2021) and echinoderms (Castilla-Gavilán et al, 2018;Militz et al, 2018), given their nutritional value and ability to synthesize and accumulate large amounts of essential fatty acids (Malcata et al, 2018;Patil et al, 2005).…”

Simultaneous Quantification of Bisphenol-A and 4-Tert-Octylphenol in the Live Aquaculture Feed Artemia franciscana and in Its Culture Medium Using HPLC-DAD

“…Aquaculture relies on plastic use in many aspects, such as fish cages, fish feeders, and fish tanks [ 31 , 32 ]. Moreover, aquaculture hatcheries require the live feed Artemia nauplii or metanauplii for feeding of the cultured fish and crustacea larvae [ 33 , 34 ], due to its high nutritional value characterized by high contents of neutral lipids [ 35 ]. Although Artemia is a crustacean adaptable to a wide range of environmental conditions, it is absent in common marine ecosystems, with its natural habitat being high salinity environments such as salt lakes, where it is found in the form of dormant cysts [ 36 ].…”