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This chapter deals with updated larvae management techniques, focusing on feed management. A compound diet was produced, and the reasoning behind this, the choice of ingredients, and manufacturing process are described here. Stocking, feeding sequences and results are also given. Co-feeding was based successively on 1-day-old Artemia salina nauplii (7–35 dph), chironomids (20–49 dph), and the compound diets (from 29 dph onwards). For 65-day-old fish raised at a water temperature range of 18.5–19°C, high survival rates (89%), and average weight of 3 g were recorded. Six-month-old fish weaned on compound diet weighed three times more (90 vs 35 g) than their naturally fed counterparts.
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Chèvre, P., Saint-Sevin, J., Mercier, D., Jacobs, L., Williot, P. (2011). Recent Progress in Larval Rearing of the European Sturgeon, Acipenser sturio . In: Williot, P., Rochard, E., Desse-Berset, N., Kirschbaum, F., Gessner, J. (eds) Biology and Conservation of the European SturgeonAcipenser sturioL. 1758. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20611-5_33
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