C-Feed - Copepods
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Transport
- Air or land based freight
- Secures proper conditions
- Handles regulatory issues
Storage
Storage
Live copepods:
- Up to 1 week storage at 2 degrees without any feeding
- Several months, if fed with microalgaes
Eggs:
- Several months storage at 2 degrees
Hatching and ongrowing
Hatching and ongrowing
Live copepods:
- C-feed takes care of all hatching and ongrowing
Eggs:
- Eggs hatch within 24 hours when placed in temperate sea water
- Feed with algae for until 12 days, to reach the right size
- Algaes can be bought from C-Feed
Use as feed
Use as feed
- Add properly sized copepods to fry tanks, following the proper feeding protocol
Covering Both the Aquaculture and Aquarium Industry
Aquaculture industry
Using copepods as feed to the fish larvae and during other demanding phases increases the survival rate and improves the quality of the fish. Combined with higher growth rates and improved quality of the end product, using copepods have an enormous impact for the users. For a juvenile producer the use of copepods may result in 30% increased production, and the production cycle from juveniles to harvestable fish can be reduced by minimum 10%. When using copepods there is no need for enrichment due to naturally high and correctly balanced nutrients. Copepods may be used through the entire start-feed period and may replace rotifers and Artemia entirely, used as an additive to increase the nutritional content or work as a «vitamin boost».
Aquarium Industry
Our main end customer segments are the salt water aquarists and those who wish to breed fish on their own as a hobby. Species like mandarin fish, clownfish and seahorse are much easier to breed using copepods. Copepods are presently the best feed for fish fry, a fact many people in the aquarium business are unaware of. The rotifers used at present require much processing and tend to foul the water. We want to work with wholesalers in the aquarium industry that understand the value of live copepods, and who have or are able to establish efficient distribution channels for live copepods or copepod eggs.
Superior Starter Feed
C-Feed AS offers high quality copepod eggs and live copepods for marine hatcheries worldwide. A live starter feed with optimal nutritional composition and availability.
What is it?
Copepods are the natural prey organisms for marine fish larvae worldwide. They have a naturally high nutritional content, are easily digested and initiate an active feeding behavior.
How to use it?
Copepods are used as a replacement for traditional live feed such as rotifers and Artemia. C-Feed delivers copepod eggs for easy in-house hatching and on-growing to the right size.
Why use it?
Use of copepods increases efficiency in industrial fish farming by improving fish survival rate, growth and quality. It also improves the water quality and production environment.
The Natural First Feed
Copepods have naturally high levels of fatty acids and proteins in cell tissue, and there are no need for enrichment. They retain their quality and can be kept alive in storage and fish tank for long periods of time. Using no enrichment drastically improves water quality and production environment, and gives you the option of using low water exchange rates and make sure every copepod gets eaten.
Copepods will reduce the rate of deformities and malpigmentation and improve growth, survival and stress tolerance of the fish larvae, not only in the juvenile phase of the production, but throughout the whole life of the fish. This means increased production quality and throughput, resulting in both lower unit costs and increased sales for the fish farmer.
Easy to buy and use
C-Feed delivers copepod eggs to large scale commercial hatcheries, aquarists and researchers all over the world. Although small in size, a bottle of copepod eggs can give you more than 100 million copepods.The eggs are easily hatched into copepod nauplii, and can be further grown to larger copepod stages, using live micro algae, as the fish juvenile demands larger prey.
In some regions C-Feed offers ready-made live copepods delivered to your hatchery. Please get in touch for the delivery options in your region.
C-Feed’s experienced start feeding team can help you put up a feeding regime that will increase your productivity and reduce your production cost. We can also provide algae cultures and support in setting up your own algae production.
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