Culture of fish food organisms

Unit 8 - Brine Shrimp or Artemia

8.5.4.2.Enrichment of artemia with HUFA
Artemia juveniles can be enriched in the same way as nauplii, but due to higher filtration efficiency, this results in higher n-3 HUFA levels in much shorter enrichment periods (1-4) hrs.It is assumed that these short enrichment periods may result in higher final DHA/EPA ratios in the biomass compared to the nauplii because there is insufficient time to break down the DHA as in the case of nauplii.