"Manual for culturing live food items for aquarists aquaculture students, businesses, and researchers. Includes microalgre, rotifers, artemia, dophila, cloms, amphipods, etc."

"Manual for culturing live food items for aquarists aquaculture students, businesses, and researchers. Includes microalgre, rotifers, artemia, dophila, cloms, amphipods, etc."

The cultivation of fish and shellfish larvae under controlled hatchery conditions requires not only the development of specific culture techniques, but in most cases also the production and use of live food organisms as feed for the developing larvae. The present manual describes the major production techniques currently employed for the cultivation of the major types of live food commonly used in larviculture, as well as their application potential in terms of their nutritional and physical properties and feeding methods. The manual is divided into different sections according to the major groups of live food organisms used in aquaculture, namely micro-algae, rotifers, Artemia, natural zooplankton, and copepods, nematodes and trochophores.

Isolation and purification; General equipment and methods; Special culture methods; Growth measurements; Bioassay.