The nutritional aspects of rotifers have received major
attention in larviculture and several commercial products have
been launched to increase the lipid and vitamin content in rotifers
. Herein, the density of the rotifers reached the maximum
individuals/mL toward 5th day of their growth on the A.
platensis of the 4th, 6th and 8th runs of the 22 CCD. There were
no clear trends as to which algal prey elicited the highest
growth potential. In this respect, studied the influence
of the biochemical composition of food on that of the rotifer
B. plicatilis and found that there is a positive correlation
between the protein content of the food and that of the rotifers,
they added that the percentage of protein values ranged
between 28.8% and 61.3% with different feed types. Additionally,
it is well established that in rotifers, the fatty acid profile is
chiefly determined by the diet as stated by Isik et al.