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Pipefish were fed enriched <jats:italic>Artemia</jats:italic> nauplii maintaining a ration rate of 14% body weight per day (dry weight <jats:italic>Artemia</jats:italic> : wet weight fish). The pipefish cultured at 26 and 28 C were longer, heavier, grew faster, and presented better condition than those at 30 C. The survival of pipefish cultured at 26 C was greater (83%) than at 30 C (30%) but not different than at 28 C (50%). This study is the first to report the acceptance of <jats:italic>Artemia</jats:italic> nauplii by juveniles of the species and that a temperature of 30 C is not suitable for juvenile <jats:italic>M. brachyurus</jats:italic> culture.</jats:bold></jats:p>","journal":"Journal of the World Aquaculture Society","year":2013,"id":40011,"datarank":0.3680759206441797,"base_score":1.6094379124341003,"endowment":1.6094379124341003,"self_citation_contribution":0.24141568686511508,"citation_network_contribution":0.12666023377906463,"self_endowment_contribution":0.24141568686511508,"citer_contribution":0.12666023377906463,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":4,"citer_count":3,"citers_with_citation_signal":3,"citers_with_endowment":3,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":195173,"name":"Maria T. 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