A game-changing set of solutions designed to improve marine fish larviculture
VitaBloom® products provide multipurpose solutions:
An innovative combination of microalgae and probiotics were used to develop products for green water technique, rotifers culture, and live feed enrichment.
GREEN WATER
The powder marvel for green water technique. It enhances microalgae stability, bacterial quality, and larval stress resistance.
ROTIFERS+
The optimal powdered diet for rotifers maintains water quality, boosts rotifer health, and reduces ammonia buildup.
ENRICH
The premium powder for live prey ensures balanced nutrition, high survival rates, and larval stress resistance.
When combined, their effects multiply!
THE BLOOM OF THE PRODUCT
VitaBloom® products were developed during the ALLARVAE
project (ALG-01-0247-FEDER-069971) that aimed to design sustainable and target-specific products for marine fish larviculture, throught the combination of microalgae and
probiotics. Microalgae are optimal nutritional resources for marine fish and live feed. Probiotics are relevant water conditioners with a prophylactic character that can be applied in aquaculture to reduce the pathogen’s onset probability and improve larvae resistance to stress.
The probiotic bacteria occupy the environmental niche where other potentially harmful bacteria can proliferate. The probiotics metabolites inhibit relevant aquaculture pathogens and remove ammonia from the system water. The main challenges in aquaculture are its sustainability and health management, which have been tackled through product development with the combination of microalgae and probiotics.
MEET THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PRODUCT
Patricia Diogo
Project Coordinator &
Innovation Manager
João Navalho
President of the Board
& Innovation Director
Pedro Pousão
Head of the IPMA – EPPO
(Aquaculture Reasearch
Station of Olhão)
Senior Researcher
António Vieira
Head of Fishfarm
Vale da Lama Lda
João Varela
Professor & Researcher
University of Algarve &
CCMAR – Centre of
Marine Sciences
