A feeding experiment was conducted to examine the substitutability between dietary eicosapen-taenoic acid (
EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (
DHA) in
Artemia on the vitality of larval yellowtail
Seriola quinqueradiata. The larval yellowtail (TL, 8.9mm) were fed
Artemia containing different levels of EPA (2.3 ?? 5.5%) at the same levels of DHA (1.4%), or 5.2% of EPA without DHA for 16 days.
A positive relationship was found between larval vitality and EPA levels in
Artemia with
DHA. In terms of vitality, poor results were observed for larvae fed
Artemia containing 5.2% of EPA alone. The vitality of larvae fed Artemia containing both EPA and DHA tended to be improved by increasing the EPA levels in
Artemia. The vitality of larvae fed
Artemia containing 2.3% of EPA with 1.4% of DHA was low, while it was improved when the EPA content in Artemia was increased to 4.0%. Moreover, it was also found that larval yellowtail could not convert dietary EPA to DHA.
These results have shown that the vitality of larval yellowtail could be improved by the combination of DHA with high levels of EPA in
Artemia.
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