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Aquaculture

Volume 22, 1981, Pages 377-381
Aquaculture

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Salinity tolerance and salinity effects on brood size of Tigriopus japonicus Mori

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Abstract

Tigriopus japonicus Mori is a species that can substitute for Artemia salina as a food for marine fish larvae and can be cultured on a large scale. It salinity tolerance and nauplii production under different salinities was studied. It was found that T. japonicus is highly tolerant to salinity changes. It can survive in water with salinity as low as 1.8‰ The highest mean average number of nauplii per female in a single spawning was 36 and occurred at 30.7‰. The most suitable salinity range for nauplii production is 27.1‰–34.3‰. Mean average time intervals between spawning were little different from each other at different salinities and within the range of 1 to 2 days.

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