brine shrimp-nutritional value?

[boxfishpooalot]

Alot of people say brine shrimp is nutritionally worthless, what do you think? What do you think its got in it?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I wouldn't use it as the only food.

Ron analyzed it and other foods in this article:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010519165804/http://www.animalnetwork.com/fish/data/foods.asp

 

[rayjay]

In the Manual on Live Foods for Aquaculture, the United Nations article by the Artemia Research Centre at the University of Gent has a chart with the protein and lipid levels of brine shrimp wild caught and on grown based on dry weight. Brine shrimp are used extensively in the mariculture industry as a large part of the feeding programs.
It would never be recommended to use as the only food.
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