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Moina as a natural food in aquaculture

Photo credit: Luis Landesman (USA) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)   Moina is a genus of crustaceans which belongs to the family “Moinidae”. As young moina is less than 400 µm in size, they can serve as the initial food for most freshwater fish species. Monia has been used as the sole food for fry …

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Mealworms, Tenebrio molitor (biology – current uses – potential use in aquaculture)

Photo credit: Gerardo Ontiveros Lopez (Mexico)                                          Description and review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal Introduction: Mealworms are the worm-like larval form of a very dark brown beetle, Tenebrio molitor, a species which belongs to the genus Tenebrio and the family …

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