Journal of Aquaculture Research & Development

Imelda Martínez Morales

Publications

• Research Article
  Formulated Feed for Strombus pugilis (Mollusca, Gastropoda) Allowed Effective Gonad Maturity
  Author(s): Fabiola Chong Sánchez, Martha Enríquez Díaz, Imelda Martínez Morales and Dalila Aldana Aranda Fabiola Chong Sánchez, Martha Enríquez Díaz, Imelda Martínez Morales and Dalila Aldana Aranda
  
  Fighting conch Strombus pugilis is one of six Strombidae species distributed throughout the Caribbean. It is used as food, as an aquarium organism and its shell are popular in jewelry production. Conch aquaculture has been done traditionally by extracting egg masses from wild adults. This is an issue for several conch species protected by CITES. Intensive conch culture requires good growth rates and gonad maturity under laboratory conditions using formulated feed. An evaluation was done of the effect of inclusion of the red algae Halymenia and Spirulina on gonad maturity in S. pugilis using two experimental diets containing low and high concentrations of these algae (2% and 8% of each). Each diet was fed to six groups of conch kept in 20 L aquaria at 27.5°C. They were fed twice daily at 0.1 g feed/conch for 105 days. Gonad devel.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9546.1000453

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