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The performance of an artificial practical diet, kappacarrageenan microbound diet (C-MBD) was assessed on Penaeus monodon larvae at the SEAFDEC Broodstock and Maturation Experimental Laboratory in March 1986. Shrimps were reared from zoea1 to post-larvae1 using five dietary treatments: (a) natural food — Chaetoceros calicitrans and Artemia salina (b) C-MBD; (c) combination of natural food and C-MBD; (d) commercial diet (microencapsulated, MED); (e) combination of natural food and commercial diet. Results showed slow development with larvae fed the commercial diet. Feeding with C-MBD in combination with natural food resulted in the highest % survival among treatments (69.6), but this was not significantly different (P>0.05) from those obtained with larvae fed natural food alone, C-MBD alone or their combination. While mean values for survival of larvae fed the commercial diet, either alone or in combination, was significantly lower (p<0.05) than all other treatments, their mean growth indices were comparable with larvae fed C-MBD alone or in combination. The low levels of protein, lipid and essentially fatty acids (which are considered important nutrients during larval development) contained in the commercial diet may well justify the results on metamorphosis, survival and growth of the larvae fed this diet. The good performance of C-MBD in this experiment suggests that this kind of diet can be used as partial or total replacement to the traditional algal food.
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Bautista, M.N., Millamena, O.M. & Kanazawa, A. Use of kappa-carrageenan microbound diet (C-MBD) as feed for Penaeus monodon larvae. Mar. Biol. 103, 169–173 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00543344
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