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Re: Fairy Shrimp.
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May 1st a 04:19 AM
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by jpsdad |
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They are pretty interesting creatures nonetheless. They can clear a bloom in a few days and this seems particularly interesting use for them to improve water quality and produce food. Most species live for a 3 weeks or longer and so its a gravy train for any fish till they are gone. I think they are very interesting if an affordable source of cysts could be obtained. 24 grams/acre of cysts could yield for example more than 700 lbs/acre of shrimps if survival of shrimps were 70% to day 7 for example. If a person spend say $2 a gram for the cysts, the wet weight cost of the forage would be less than 7 cents a lb. With 14 days to finish them off, the average daily consumption could be 50 lbs/day. Maybe that consumption rate is too high and a small quantity is better. I imagine that panfish and minnows would just fill up on them. The goldilocks treatment would be where they were all consumed before dying of old age.
They are a very large creature considering what they are eating which includes very efficient filtration of bacteria, yeasts, phytoplankton, etc that are too small to observe without a microscope.
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