| dc.description.abstract | Freshwater fairy shrimps are a group of crustaceans, commonly found in
Southeast Asia with high potential to replace Artemia sp. in live feed production
for aquaculture species. In this study, we investigated the effects of different
feed concentration and the addition of probiotics Bacillus subtilis on the survival
and growth performance of a freshwater fairy shrimp species, Branchinella
thailandensis under different culture density (50 and 250 nauplii L-1). The
results showed that the addition of probiotics helped increased the survival rate
of fairy shrimp nauplii at 250 nauplii L-1 density. To obtain highest growth
performance, we recommend the feed concentration of live Spirulina platensis of
at least 1 x 106 cells mL-1. However, the investigated density is much lower than
that of common Artemia sp. production. Thus, we recommend further research
to study the potential of using higher culturing density of B. thailandensis. | en_US |
