CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Are captive sea cucumbers nutritious?

1. Are captive sea cucumbers nutritious?

There is definitely some nutrition, but it is not too high. It is like the "quickly slaughtered pigs". The nutrition accumulation is not enough and the meat is not chewy. If you have the conditions, you should buy wild ones.

2. Can other seafood be raised in the sea cucumber enclosure at the same time, and must it be harmless to the sea cucumbers?

Yes, in recent years, some farmers in Laizhou, Shandong have been raising Japanese shrimp in ginseng pens. The growth cycle is just right to stagger with that of sea cucumbers, and good benefits have been achieved.

3. Why do captive sea cucumbers gather together?

Hello, is there abundant food in the place where they gather? There is abundant food there. This situation is easy to occur when feeding adult sea cucumbers. There is also a common place where sea cucumbers eat very cleanly and in a dense crowd. There is not a single one. There is also abundant food here. Don’t they know that there is a rich feast here? This question is not easy to explain. Maybe they also like to be lively like people. Qingdao Lao Yin’s wild sea cucumbers are made with sincerity.

4. Why should captive sea cucumbers be brought to the beach around October? What are the consequences of not bringing them to the beach?

Sea cucumbers are temperature-controlled animals. After hibernation, the water temperature gradually decreases. Because the temperature range of sea cucumbers in natural sea areas is 4-20 degrees, when the water temperature in the enclosure is close to or below 20 degrees, sea cucumbers will end their hibernation and start to eat. If they do not go to the beach during the season, it means that there is something wrong with the beach surface, or they can no longer go to the beach and die in the reef.

5. Can I raise conchs in a sea cucumber pen? Is it harmful to sea cucumbers? Isn't it a good idea to have conflicts?

Although there is no predation relationship between the two, the competition for oxygen and food between the two will have an impact if they are farmed on a large scale! Answer from Lao Yinjia, a senior sea cucumber team

6. How to distinguish wild and domestic sea cucumbers

The nutrition of wild sea cucumbers is far superior to that of farmed sea cucumbers. There are two ways to farm sea cucumbers: one is to farm sea cucumbers in shrimp ponds or sea pens, and the other is to raise sea cucumbers artificially and return them to the sea to grow on their own, that is, bottom-sown sea cucumbers. From the perspective of the growth process of sea cucumbers, they can be regarded as wild sea cucumbers.

Currently, purely wild sea cucumbers and bottom-sown sea cucumbers are mixed together and cannot be distinguished. From the perspective of nutritional value, the water level in the dammed sea or shrimp pond is very shallow, with sufficient light, so sea cucumbers grow very fast and have low nutrient accumulation, just like the value of farmed soft-shelled turtles is far lower than that of wild soft-shelled turtles. What is even more alarming is that during the breeding process, some sea cucumber farmers add antibiotics to the pools where sea cucumbers are bred to prevent and control diseases and insect pests; in order to promote rapid growth of sea cucumbers, growth hormones are added to the feed, resulting in drug residues in adult sea cucumbers, which is potentially harmful to humans.