Great Salt Lake Artemia

Great salt lake brine shrimp cooperative inc.

Great salt lake artemia.

Bio marine is world renowned for its high quality artemia cysts. Artemia are able to avoid cohabiting with most types of predators such as fish by their ability to live in waters of very high salinity up to 25. Artemia cysts are used as live feed for larval stage fish and shrimp in hatcheries in europe asia central and south america and around the world. Some species of artemia have only females but the great salt lake population has both males and females.

The male can be distinguished by his grasper antennae which almost look like a giant handlebar moustache and the female can often be seen with two small orange or pink egg sacs at the base of her tail. All of our products have been tested certified and proven by. Offering great salt lake artemia cysts small strain shell free hatching e z and decapsulated brine shrimp eggs with the industry s best satisfaction guarantee. Look for the green label marked gsl.

In the great salt lake most artemia franciscana die off in autumn leaving massive red slicks made up of cysts highly fortified eggs that survive cold temperatures to hatch in spring. The great salt lake brine shrimp cooperative is a group of member companies working together to produce the world s finest artemia products from the world s greatest source great salt lake. Artemia international llc is a bulk supplier of artemia cysts brine shrimp and other specialty feeds and equipment for the aquaculture industry worldwide. The cooperative was formed in 2006 when sixteen harvest companies joined together to create the great salt lake brine shrimp cooperative inc.

Our cooperative s collective mission and goals are used to focus on producing quality artemia products preserving the environment and continuing to provide world renowned quality brine shrimp. Many people who visit the great salt lake don t even notice the most numerous inhabitant of this ecosystem. About great salt lake brine shrimp cooperative. We will return your money if you do not achieve the specified hatching results from artemia cysts that have been properly stored and handled.

We take pride in providing quality products and service in helping you achieve your goals in this ever changing industry. All bio marine brand artemia is processed packed and quality tested under our strict control so we guarantee performance as specified. Read on below to see characteristics hatching conditions and packing specifications for each strain. Although small they serve as an essential food source for millions of birds that breed or stopover at the great salt lake during migration and in recent years these shrimp support a multi million dollar commercial harvest.