Name that Feed!
Test your knowledge about the type of food that fish eat while being raised through aquaculture.

Click on your choice in the center column.

  1.Artemia

 

Dry feed

Artemia

Rotifer

 

 Clues:
(a) I am a zooplankton

(b) My size ranges from 400 microns at hatch to 1000 microns as an adult

(c) You can buy me as dehydrated cysts and hatch me in 24 hours

(d) You would feed me to fish during its late larval stage (fish size is 8-9 mm in length).
  2.Rotifer

 

Dry feed

Artemia

Rotifer

 Clues:
(a) I am a zooplankton

(b) My size ranges from 120-300 microns

(c) If I am a female, I can reproduce without a male

(d) I am the first kind of food that a first-feeding fish will need.
  3.dry feed

 

Dry feed

Artemia

Rotifer

 Clues:
(a) My size ranges from 300 microns to 10 mm.

(b) You can start feeding me to fish when they reach their juvenile period of development.

(c) Once the fish start getting bigger, you can offer them a larger size of me.