| Consistently The Best - Artemia Cysts from NZ ! |
* More Cysts per Gram NZ artemia cysts are much smaller than those sourced from the Great Salt Lakes area & from China (other cysts available in Australia come mainly from those areas). So with NZ artemia cysts, you typically get a lot more cysts per kg. Yet for a comparable hatch rate, pricing of NZ cysts is often lower than for GSL cysts. Combined with their excellent hatch rate, economies can readily be realised! Up To Top * Quality Controlled The production process for these cysts has been refined over a period of approximately 7 years. This has included numerous tests by the Artemia Reference Centre (University of Gent, Belgium) to characterise the cysts. Each batch is now tested by an independent laboratory. Up To Top * Very small (434 µm) nauplii Most other cysts hatch a nauplius of length ~480 micron but our NZ cysts hatch a nauplius averaging 434 µm; a significant number of those are around 400 µm. Small nauplii, combined with higher cyst/gram count and high hatch rate, means that you can expect much more from NZ cysts, than from most other cysts. Their small size makes our cysts especially suited to many fish species that have a small mouth gape; many aquatic species can't open their mouths wide enough to take the larger GSL artemia nauplii . . . and starve. Availability of our small-nauplius may assist your fish larvae to thrive & survive. Up To Top * Excellent separation of nauplii and cysts . Nauplii hatching from our cysts are generally vigorous when hatched under appropriate conditions. The application of standard methods to separate nauplii from the shells results in excellent separation and a very small component of unhatched cysts and shells coming through with the nauplii. Up To Top * High HUFA . The environmental conditions under which the NZ Artemia grows result in high levels of EPA; EPA as high as 14% of total fatty acids have been measured in Instar I nauplii. EPA is one of the n-3 HUFA's, a fatty acid known to be of high nutritional value to aquatic organisms. Rimmer, Read, Levitt & Lisle (1994) suggest that the level of EPA in artemia could influence survival of Barramundi larvae. Up To Top * Hatch Rate (85 to +90%). Our cysts are now separated into several grades.(see Table). This includes two commercial grades and two Ultra grades. Each batch is hatch tested, for quality control, so you'll always be impressed when you purchase our product. Up To Top  * High
Hatching Efficiency (H.E.).
Hatching efficiency refers to the number of nauplii
hatched per gram
dry weight of cysts. Typically, from our cysts, you can anticipate a
hatching efficiency between 229,000 n / g (Silver Grade) to 387,000 n
/ g (Diamond Grade). Such high H.E. is possible due to the
small
size of our cysts (high
number per gram) and the high hatch rate. Up
To Top* Tight Hatch Synchrony (- 6 hrs). Hatch synchrony is approximately 6 hours, and can be shorter if you decapsulate your cysts prior to hatching. With this tight synchrony, you'll find that most of your cysts hatch close to a specific time, enabling you to do harvest most hatchlings in one go. Up To Top * Product of New Zealand NZ Artemia cysts are grown in New Zealand, by Burkhart Fisheries. The packaged product is the result of extensive testing and development (see above), to ensure that our customers receive cysts of the highest quality. Up To Top |
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