Abstract:
Ornamental Red cherry shrimp (Neocaridina heteropoda) is one of the commodities that are potential to be developed. The development will be conducted through rearing techniques to improve the performance of larvae. Improved maintenance techniques larvae can be done through several approaches, including the feed. The aim of this study was to determine the performance of red cherry shrimp larvae with different initial feed.. Research using Complete Randomized Design (CRD) with 3 treatments and 3 replications. Treatments are food type, there are (A) Water Plant, (B) Artemia, (C) Rotifera, (D) Artemia + water plants (E) Rotifera + water plants. Research vessel in the form of an aquarium measuring 14 X 14 X 14 cm3, with a volume of 1 liter of freshwater and equipped with aeration. The number of larvae per aquarium are 15 larvae that 5 days after hatching with an average length 0.3 ± 0.05 cm. Results showed that the highest achieving for absolute growth in the average length is in treatment D (Artemia + water plants) that are 0.94 ± 0.11 cm, and the highest specific growth lenght reached in treatment D, amounting to 0.032 ± 0.05 cm/day. The highest survival rate achieved in treatment D with 100%.
