Shellfish Diet

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Shellfish Diet 1800® is a mix of four marine microalgae that all have demonstrated success with a variety of shellfish including oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops. A mixed diet provides a much better nutritional profile for all types of shellfish, increasing both growth rates and survival.  Shellfish Diet can be used with pre-set larvae all the way up through broodstock and will typically perform as well as live algae so it can be used as a complete live algae replacement.  1 quart of Shellfish Diet will replace the equivalent to 1800 liters of dense algae culture.  This product is available in 1 plastic bottles of 1 quart (standard) and 1 gallon sizes (special orders). For information on how much algae to feed shellfish CLICK HERE. The dry weight of Shellfish Diet is always 9%.  The cell count varies depending on the time of the year but is roughly 2 billion cellsper ml. Isochrysis 30% Pavlova 20% Tetraselmis 20% Thalassiosira weissflogii (TW) 30% Other Applications:  Shellfish Diet 1800® is also an excellent feed for ascidians/tunicates, sea urchins, soft corals, brine shrimp, and copepods. Shellfish Diet 1800 is part of the Instant Algae® product line and does not contain any preservative chemicals or filler material - just pure marine microalgae.

Bivalve Shellfish Hatchery Products

* Broodstock Conditioning * Larval Rearing * Remote Setting * Oysters, Clams, Mussels, Scallops The primary food for all bivalve shellfish is microalgae, so it is a critical component in all shellfish hatcheries. Each shellfish species has a preferred microalgae culture. Some prefer diatoms (microalgae that have a silica shell and do not swim) and some prefer flagellates (no shell and ciliates or "feet" that help them move around). But it is very important that the shellfish get a variety of cultures in order to stay healthy. Reed Mariculture has worked with Pacific (gigas) oysters for 4 years to develop an optimal growth diet. Our oysters were grown in large tanks and are fed a diet that is heavy in CHGRA and enhanced with Tetraselmis and Isochrysis. With this diet were able to grow an oyster from 1 gram to 60 grams in 8 months. All of our microalgae cultures are excellent for growing bivalve shellfish. You will need to experiment with your larvae to discover the diet that works best for your animals, or contact us to see if we have customers raising the same or similar animals.  Nannochloropsis is too small for most shellfish except mussels.