Affiliation:
1. Department and Graduate Institute of Aquaculture, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan
2. Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
Abstract
The sea urchin is a very important aquatic economic organism in many countries and has high food value. However, it has recently been heavily fished, and it would be of great importance to the sustainable development of coral reefs to develop large-scale aquaculture of sea urchins. Sea urchins are prone to death during larval development. Therefore, in this study, three kinds of microalgae were used as the initial food for sea urchins to evaluate whether different kinds of microalgae can improve their survival and growth rates. Chaetoceros muelleri (C), Isochrysis galbana tml (I), and Dunaliella salina (D) were fed to A. crassipina at concentrations of 5000, 10,000, 20,000, and 30,000 cell mL−1. A fasted group was used as control (N). The final body length, final body width, final stomach length, rudiment length, survival rate and morphology were measured to evaluate development and growth. The results showed that feeding with C. muelleri resulted in better growth and survival. After 9 days of feeding with C(20,000 cells mL−1), the rudiment length reached 203.33 ± 12.47 µm. The onset of metamorphosis was observed 12 days post-feeding. The survival rate after feeding C was also significantly higher than that after feeding I and D. In summary, when sea urchins are breeding, it is recommended to choose C(20,000 cells mL−1) or C(30,000 cells mL−1) as the initial feed for larvae to increase the growth and survival of sea urchin seedlings.
Subject
Ecology,Aquatic Science,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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