A Recirculating Artificial Seawater System for the Laboratory Culture of Mysidopsis almyra (Crustacea; Pericaridea)
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Estuaries
- Vol. 3 (4) , 321-323
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1352089
Abstract
The estuarine opossum shrimp Mysidopsis almyra Bowman is a useful laboratory organism and has been cultured continuously for over three years in a recirculating artificial seawater system. This system is composed of one 57 1 and one 19 1 glass aquarium joined by a power filter and siphons. Optimal culture conditions are 20 ppt artificial seawater at 25°C and a 14∶10 hour light∶dark photoperiod. Adult mysids are maintained in the large aquarium and fed newly hatched nauplii of Artemia salina. Newly hatched M. almyra postlarvae are carried by the siphons into the smaller aquarium where they are trapped in cylinders made of 0.3 mm nesh nylon netting. One-hundred to four-hundred post-larvae are harvested each day from the system.Keywords
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