JPH11253111A - How to rear eel hatchlings - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To find out a feed suitable for growing a hatched fish larva of an eel and to provide its feeding technique and a method for rearing control. SOLUTION: A settling feed, especially a fish egg powder, above all, a shark egg powder is used so that the feed can be supplied at the bottom of a rearing container. In this case, a siphon is used to transfer the fish larva to another container to rear the hatched fish larva of an eel.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a feed, a feeding method and a management method suitable for raising hatchling larvae of eels.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The collection of glass eels, which are seeds for eel farming, has been steadily decreasing in the last ten years.
Therefore, the price of seeds and seedlings has continued to rise abnormally high, and there is a strong demand for the development of artificial seedling production technology for glass eels.
However, despite the fact that more than 20 years have already passed since artificial hatching became possible, feeding and rearing of hatched larvae have not been successful.

Until now, the present inventors have found that hatched larvae of eels are in a developmental stage in which they can be eaten at about 7 days after hatching at a water temperature of 23 ° C. Revealed that he has the ability to However, the breeding period was limited to a maximum of 18 days, and the growth of the larvae after the yolk absorption was not confirmed. Therefore, establishment of an optimal breeding environment until fertilized eggs and feeding after hatching is started has been demanded.

[0004]

An object of the present invention is to find a suitable feed for growing an eel hatched larva, and to develop a feeding method and a breeding management method thereof.

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems The present inventors have made intensive efforts to solve the above-mentioned problems, and as a result, have used a sedimentable feed so that they can be fed at the bottom of the breeding container, particularly fish egg powder, especially fish egg powder. Shark egg powder was found to be good.

That is, the present invention provides (1) a method of breeding eel hatched larvae, which comprises feeding a sedimentary feed;
(2) The method of breeding hatchling larvae of eels according to (1), wherein the sedimentable feed is fish egg powder, (3) The description of (2), wherein the fish egg powder is shark egg powder. And (4) a method of breeding eel hatched larvae, which comprises transferring the larvae to a separate container using a siphon.

[0007] Generally, it is known that larvae of marine fish produced from separated buoyant eggs jump into a bait material floating in front of their eyes by relying on their sight to perform individual feeding into a swallow. In fish species having such a feeding ecology, rotifers are used as an initial feed, and stable seedling production is possible. In addition, as a countermeasure against soiling of the bottom of the aquarium with remaining bait, feces, etc., the bottom has been cleaned with a siphon or the like.

However, hatching larvae of eels cannot grow in such a breeding method because a sufficient amount of food cannot be continuously obtained, and under illuminance conditions of several tens of lux or more, the eel hatching larvae may not reach the bottom of the aquarium. Because larva gathers densely, bottom cleaning becomes difficult,
Long-term breeding was not possible due to the deterioration of the environment due to residual food and feces.

[0009] Utilizing the property that larvae gather at the bottom of the aquarium, feeding was performed at the bottom of the aquarium, and food suitable for this feeding method was searched mainly for sedimentable feed. That is,
The following feeds were compared and examined. Biological feed: Rotifer, Frozen rotifer, Natural plankton, Otamaboya Commercial feed: Initial feed for marine fish, Initial feed for crustaceans, Paste feed for feeding on whitebait Nutritional fortified feed: Fish egg powder, concentrated nannochloropsis, D
HA-enhanced euglena Others: squid, shrimp, jellyfish, ray fins, mussel gonads, chicken eggs (yolk), eel eggs, red sea bream eggs, gelatin Among these, most of the food is hardly fed, and larvae are Although killed immediately, fish egg powder was effective, with shark egg cold-dried powder being the most effective.

As a result of various studies as an alternative to bottom cleaning, it is simple to transfer larvae to a newly prepared clean water tank, and it is most effective to use a siphon as shown in FIG. Was found.
This method utilizes the tendency of eel hatchling larvae to be lightweight and to stay away from the bottom of the aquarium after the lights are turned off at night. It is possible to transfer to another container.

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BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

EXAMPLES Eel hatching larvae reared to a developmental stage considered to be ingestible were housed in a 5 l acrylic bowl aquarium. Add shark egg low-temperature dry powder (trade name: Aqualan) to 2.
The most active feeding was seen when suspended in 5 times the volume of seawater and fed gently into the bottom of the aquarium using a Komagome pipette. Feeding was performed four times a day, and water was stopped for 2 hours after feeding, and at other times, filtered seawater adjusted to 23 ° C. at 0.3 L / min was injected. In addition, larvae were transferred to a clean aquarium using a siphon at night.

According to this breeding method, in the breeding example in which the feeding was started by dividing the tank on the ninth day after hatching, 79% of the feeding groups survived while the non-feeding group was completely extinguished on the 13th day. Even on day 18 of the longest survival record so far, 56% survived.
(Fig. 3) In the non-feeding section, the average did not reach 7 mm, but in the feeding section, day 11: 7.05 mm, day 18: 8.12 mm, 24
Day: Growing to 8.67 mm (FIG. 2).

[0013]

[Comparative Example 1] Approx.
Tail hatching larvae were housed and raised at 19-22.5 ° C.
Rotifers were fed from the 7th day after hatching when their eyes became black, and on the 8th day, the rotifers were also fed with an initial feed for marine fish. On this day, about 100 larvae mixed in the bottom cleaning drainage were collected, housed in a 200 ml beaker, and densely packed (about 50 fish / m2).
Rotifer was added to l), and breeding was continued in a thermostat at 23 ° C. Every day, the surviving larva was transferred to a newly prepared clean beaker filled with filtered seawater and feeding was continued, and larvae eating one or several rotifers after the 13th day after hatching were seen, No growth could be confirmed. 1 after hatching
On the seventh day, the last one survived, but the lean body was curving and debilitating. The larva died on day 18.

[0014]

Comparative Example 2 Approximately 5,000 larvae of the first day after hatching were housed in a 500-liter Panlite aquarium and reared at 19.1 to 22.2 ° C. Rotifers were fed from the 8th day after hatching when the eyes became black, and from the 12th day onward, in addition to the rotifers, DHA enriched euglena was also given. On the thirteenth day after hatching, no larvae were found on the surface and middle layers of the aquarium, but a small number of live larvae were mixed in the drainage of the bottom cleaning. About half of the 19 larvae obtained on the 15th day after hatching ate rotifers. Live larvae were confirmed up to the 17th day, but no growth was observed.
No fresh corpses were found on the day, and the annihilation was confirmed.

[0015]

Comparative Example 3 Larvae reared at 21.8-23.0 ° C. for 7 days after hatching in a 1000-liter Panlite aquarium were divided into about 50 fishes in five acrylic bowl aquariums on the eighth day. When fed with rotifers at a water temperature of 20.6 to 22.8 ° C and fed 3 to 5 times a day, on the 10th to 13th day after hatching, the body bends and jumps into the food. However, on the 15th day there were only a few remaining fish, and on the 16th day they were completely exterminated.

[0016]

According to the present breeding method, it was confirmed that the eel hatching larva greatly prolonged the survival period and clearly grew, and it became possible to feed the larvae for the production of eel artificial seeds at an early stage.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing movement of an eel larva by a siphon.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a growth curve of eel larvae.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a survival curve of eel larvae.

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[Submission date] January 21, 1999

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That is, the present invention provides (1) a method of breeding eel hatched larvae, characterized by feeding a suspension of shark egg dry powder in seawater ; and (2) low shark egg dry powder.
(1) described in that it is dried at a warm temperature
Breeding method of hatchling larva of eel , (3) Shark egg dry powder
Specially, feed a suspension of 2.5 times the amount of seawater.
Raising eel hatching larvae according to (1) or (2)
(4) The method according to ( 1), wherein the larva is transferred to another container using a siphon.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A method for breeding eel hatched larvae, comprising feeding a sedimentary feed. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sedimentable feed is fish egg powder. 3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the fish egg powder is shark egg powder. 4. A method of breeding eel hatched larvae, comprising transferring larvae to another container using a siphon.