Good to see these fish spawning. I'm a grad of the Fish and Aqua program. I just read an article in the Victoria TC about the new facilities. Congrats.
Do the larvae take fish-fudge better than ewos trout feed? Do they start on this feed or transition onto it after something like powdered krill or zero? Just curious as I work with sturgeon larvae too.
The larvae took to the fudge about as well as they do to commercial crumb. We found that in the long run, it wasn't as good. The fudge has gelatin in it and it doesn't have any nutritional value so it acted as a filler and the larvae did not grow as well. We are working on finding the best larval diet.
@ICSSVIU I've had good results feeding larvae (at first feed) using a combination of powdered krill and freeze-dried "cyclop-eeze" from Argent. They seem to love it! It floats longer than commercial feed and sticks to the side of tanks easily, which also seems to work well for feeding.
Good to see these fish spawning. I'm a grad of the Fish and Aqua program. I just read an article in the Victoria TC about the new facilities. Congrats.
rimmermb99 5 months ago
Do the larvae take fish-fudge better than ewos trout feed? Do they start on this feed or transition onto it after something like powdered krill or zero? Just curious as I work with sturgeon larvae too.
sportspanda01 2 years ago
The larvae took to the fudge about as well as they do to commercial crumb. We found that in the long run, it wasn't as good. The fudge has gelatin in it and it doesn't have any nutritional value so it acted as a filler and the larvae did not grow as well. We are working on finding the best larval diet.
ICSSVIU 2 years ago
@ICSSVIU I've had good results feeding larvae (at first feed) using a combination of powdered krill and freeze-dried "cyclop-eeze" from Argent. They seem to love it! It floats longer than commercial feed and sticks to the side of tanks easily, which also seems to work well for feeding.
-Marcus
sportspanda01 1 year ago