Natural Feed for Shrimp - 02

A basic point that need to noticed is a natural feed within pond water is a feed source that to be main choice for shrimps as long as it’s stock still enough for shrimp population within pond. This condition can be said : if a shrimp be given choices between artificial feed with natural feed, so a shrimp will choice natural feed within pond water.

The benefits of natural feed that can used as consideration matter to feeding management program, are among others :

1. The sufficiency of natural feed especially at early (fry stage) can keep survival rate of fry/young shrimp within pond.
   
   
2. The sufficiency of natural feed especially at early (fry stage) can resulting shrimp uniform size level within its population on same size.
   
   
3. The sufficiency of natural feed especially at early (fry stage) can resulting shrimp growth more faster.
   
   
4. The sufficiency of natural feed can reduce waste accumulation process, because utilization of artificial feed as a bigger waste contributor still limited.
   
   
5. The sufficiency of natural feed can reduce cost production, so it can affected to profit value.

A parameter that can used as criteria of natural feed stock within pond water is shrimps appearance at water surface as well as at ancho. Pond water with sufficient or abundant natural feed, the shrimps appearance process more slower than pond water with minimized natural feed stock. This condition happen because the shrimps more carry out their activities at water bottom to look for natural feed, so they infrequently appear at water surface as well as at ancho.

In the other hand, if shrimps appearance at water surface or at ancho more much than ordinary, so it can made as an indicator that natural feed stock within water have already decreased or empty. This condition happen because the shrimps will try to look for a feed that its seldom to be found at pond water bottom, then at condition like this the shrimps usually to convoy activity at around pond boundary or too many appear at pond wall.

Other parameter that can used as criteria of natural feed stock within pond water is through shrimp feces color monitoring that its found in intestine organ or at ancho. Shrimp feces that come from natural feed usually have dark/blackness color or depend on kind of natural feed. If based on monitoring result show that too many shrimps have feces with blackness color, so it can used as indicator that natural feed stock within pond water still sufficient.

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