Artemia supply

Price per 425 gram can, May 2009: R399

Golden Fish Artemia Cysts, Net 425g x 12cans/ ctn, hatch rate: 85±3%, 230,000 eggs/gram, Optimal hatching temperature 26~30°C, Maximum Hatching Temperature is 32°C,

Currently, we have Chinese Artemia available. This is Artemia sinica (Central Asia, China). Artemia is packed in cans of one pound (425 grams).

 We supply both the Great Salt Lake Artemia from the USA and the Bohai Bay Artemia from China. Both products are reliable and give good results.

Artemia species

Taxonomy & regions of appearance

• Phylum: Arthropoda (german: Gliederfuber)
• Subphylum: Crustacea
• Class: Branchiopoda (includes fairy shrimp, brine shrimp, daphnia, clam shrimp, tadpole shrimp)
• Order: Anostraca (brine shrimp and fairy shrimp)
• Family: Artemidae
  Genus: Artemia
  Species: Artemia <name>
   
• Artemia franciscana superspecies:
• Artemia (franciscana) franciscana Kellogg (1906) - Americas, Caribbean, Pacific islands, Australia
• Artemia (franciscana) monica Verrill (1869) - California: Mono Lake
• Artemia gracilis Verrill (1869) - North & south America
• Artemia nyos (artificial hybrid between A. salina and ... ? ; "New York Ocean Science" laboratories) - the Sea Monkey
• Artemia parartemia
• Artemia parthenogenetica Barigozzi 1974, Bowen and Sterling 1978 - Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia
• Artemia persimilis Piccinelli and Prosdocimi (1968) - Argentina
• Artemia salina Leach (1819) - England, Spain, Italy, Lybia, Egypt - traditional aquarium life food
• Artemia salina pacifica Sars (1903)
• Artemia sinica Cai,Yaneng (1989) - Central and Eastern Asia
• Artemia sp. Pilla and Beardmore 1994 - Kazakhstan
• Artemia tibetiana (Abatzopoulos et al.1998) - Tibet
• Artemia tunesiana Bowen and Sterling 1978 synonym of A. salina
• Artemia urmiana Gunther (1900) - Iran (ref)