Effects of diets on survival and growth of Amphioctopus fangsiao paralarvae in planktonic stage
In order to investigate the dietary requirements of paralarvae in the planktonic stage of the gold-ringed octopus(Amphioctopus fangsiao),newly hatched octopus paralarvae were used as ex-perimental material.The results indicated that the survival rate of paralarvae fed solely with Artemia nauplii or enriched Artemia nauplii was the lowest.In contrast,better results were obtained with Ar-temia and Mysis shrimp,with the survival rate of the octopus paralarvae in the Artemia group signifi-cantly higher than those in the other groups(P<0.05),reaching(38.33±2.15)%after 13 days.The findings of this study suggest that in the large-scale breeding production of gold-ringed octo-pus,Artemia is a suitable diet for the cultivation of the paralarvae in the planktonic stage.