Characteristics Shrimp

Before we go on feeding management, need to know How did the first, when and where to eat shrimp. The basic point prior to provide feed on shrimp, we must know the first characteristic of shrimp (biological needs).

The nature / behavior of shrimp (feed habit) as follows:

1. Prawn including animal species night (nocturnal). In the wild shrimp only actively foraging at night, whereas at night, whereas during the daytime activity and appetite is much reduced. They prefer silence or hide based waters. However, in a controlled natural conditions, such as in the pond, try to create the environment as if the night continues so that feeding can be done day or night. In this case, the effect is the depth and water color.
2. Shrimp animal who likes to live based waters (benthos / bottom feeder). Thus, the feed given should feed easily drowned.
3. Shrimp animals that "non-social" or rather solitary, the animal who likes to live alone, do not like groups, so as to place his life needed a wide area. Therefore, feeding should be spread evenly across the surface of the pond, to increase the chances of each shrimp to obtain food.
4. In search of food, shrimp using the organs of the body that acts as a natural detector chemicals (chermoreceptor). This sense there is in the oral cavity, antenna flagella, foot path, gills, body segments, and the tail. Therefore, the feed should contain energy stimulation (atrakan) so Udan want to eat it.
5. Shrimp catch and take food by using the foot path (periopoda) are like chopsticks and directly inserted into the mouth of food eaten and chewed slowly, after a soft chew that swallow, so continuously. Because shrimp is one of the lower animals, bowel or digestive shrimp simple, straight and short, to improve efficiency in the digestion and absorption, the feed must have a high nutrient content and digestibility. In addition, the feed size was associated with a weight of shrimp, prawn weight increases, the size of chopsticks (tentacle food) is also changed, so that when the shrimp should be fed with the appropriate size for them to easily capture and retrieve food
6. When moulting shrimp (peel outer skin), appetite is reduced, sometimes to not want to eat, but after a period of moulting shrimp will consume more feed than during normal periods. This is due at the time of moulting shrimp has spent a lot of energy so that energy require replacement. Brackish water rich in natural and nutritious food ingredients produced from plants (phytoplankton) and animal / micro-organisms (zooplankton). Generally, the pattern of pure traditional culture is still highly rely on it as a shrimp feed supplies (to harvest). Indeed, in the first month of maintenance, reserves of food in pools is still sufficient for the needs of shrimp and yet there are problems. In fact, there are traditional farmers who take over the existing algae, shrimp still want to eat. Opinions on the right, but need to be underlined, shrimp do not eat algae. Actually, eating shrimp microorganisms (animal) attached to the algae