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Hernández-Molejón, O.G. & L. Alvarez-Lajonchère. (2003). Culture experiments with Oithona oculata Farran, 1913 (Copepoda: Cyclopoida), and its advantages as food for marine fish larvae. Aquaculture. 219(1-4):471-483.
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10.1016/S0044-8486(02)00644-0 [view]
Hernández-Molejón, O.G. & L. Alvarez-Lajonchère
2003
Culture experiments with Oithona oculata Farran, 1913 (Copepoda: Cyclopoida), and its advantages as food for marine fish larvae.
Aquaculture
219(1-4):471-483.
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Culture experiments were made with Oithona oculata Farran, 1913, a coastal water copepod, at Tunas de Zaza and Santa Cruz del Sur, Cuba. A 1 1/2-year semicontinuous experimental-scale polyculture with the rotifer Brachionus rotundiformis (type “S”) in outdoor tarpaulin 2.5-m3 tanks was established, with Nannochloropsis oculata (20×106 cells ml−1) and baker's yeast (1–2 g/106 rotifers day−1) as food, reaching a mean density of 5 copepods ml−1 and a maximum density of 8 copepods ml−1, with a daily harvest of 25% of the total volume. A 1-year batch-culture pilot-scale system was also established in indoor concrete 20-m3 tanks using N. oculata (8–20×106 cells ml−1) as food, reaching a mean density of 7 copepods ml−1 and a maximum density of 10 copepods ml−1. Copepod monocultures maintained in polycarbonate 1000-l outdoor tanks were fed a mixture of five species of microalgae (Chaetoceros ceratosphorum, Tetraselmis tetrathele, Chlorella spp., Dunaliella tertiolecta and N. oculata) at an average density of 2×106 cells ml−1. In these nonaerated cultures, final concentrations of 13 copepods ml−1 were obtained in 15-day cultures. Recommendations for improving pelagic copepod culture are presented and their advantages as live food for rearing marine fish larvae are analyzed.
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