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Culturing the fairy shrimp Streptocephalus dichotomus Baird using livestock waste – a reclamation study

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The present study describes a defined culturetechnique for the fairy shrimp, Streptocephalusdichotomus. It emphasizes reclamation of low-cost organiclive-stock waste(cow-dung), lime powder, and urea. These compounds wereused to enrich algal and diatom populations in themedium. These algae and diatoms were fed to filter feedingfairy shrimps to yield anostracanbiomass. A production of 262 ± 6 animals l−1was obtained in an experimental tank compared to 36 ± 4animals l−1 in the controls. Interestingly,the total number of clutches in experimentalfemales (12 ± 2), relative to the control (7 ± 1),increased too.

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  1. Unit of Live-feed culture, Department of Zoology, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Madras, 600 025, India

    N. Munuswamy, A. K. A. Nazar & C. S. Velu

  2. Institute of Animal Ecology, University of Ghent, K. L. Ledeganstraat 35, B-9000, Gent, Belgium

    H. J. Dumont

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Munuswamy, N., Nazar, A.K.A., Velu, C.S. et al. Culturing the fairy shrimp Streptocephalus dichotomus Baird using livestock waste – a reclamation study. Hydrobiologia 358, 199–203 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003136507728

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