AquaLife an introduction

For decades, the sea has been used for commerce and recreation without hesitation or consideration. Global climatic changes and increasing pollution levels have changed the trends in natural habitat, resulting in decline of quantity and disease free marine animals.

This is reflected in the seafood business as a whole. The marine aquaculture industry is forced to change their professional attitudes considerably and is adopting modern farming methods, like closed circulation water management systems.

In the beginning of the seventies, when tropical aquariums for marine animals started to proliferate, they were able to use natural seawater. Water conditions have now reached a stage where large-scale inshore aquaculture farms are left with no choice but to use synthetic seawater. Filtering natural seawater into a usable condition is not cost effective any longer.

The composition of natural seawater is practically the same, irrespective of its geographical location. There are more than 100 dissolved components in natural seawater, mostly ions. Whether a sample is taken from the Caribbean, Maldives, Philippines or the Australian barrier reef, the composition will remain indistinguishable. The only difference is the concentration of salinity, measured in percentage of salt per litre. The salt concentration of the major oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, etc.) is approximately 3.5%, whereas the Red Sea has a concentration of 4% and the North Sea, 2%. A comparable situation is that of air. Regardless of geographic location and the relative contents of oxygen, nitrogen and insert gases, it is practically equal. Only the density of air fluctuates, in relation to the altitude.

ACUCEWMS™ - Aquaculture Under Closed Environmental Water Management System, invented by Mr. Bulart, has the advantage of being independent of any external natural supply, such as spring, river, lake or seawater (coast or shore). The system is environmentally friendly.

Aquatic animals kept in such closed systems are subject to constant visual control and they are protected from environmental pollution. In addition, intensive breeding, hatching and ongrowing or fattening is possible without cruelty to water animals. This in turn shortens the aquatic animals' growth rate by some 35 to 40%, depending on the type of species.

The Tropic Marine Sea Salt - TMSS - developed by Prof. Dr. Hans Bienert is composed of 85 drugstore clean crystal components and is produced by equipment made of high grade V4A steel, ensuring a high degree of cleanliness. Apart from the 7 major components - sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, chlorine, sulphur and oxygen, another additional 70 trace elements exist in natural seawater. TMSS is constantly adjusted to reflect the latest scientific opinion regarding the make-up of seawater. TMSS is a product, which corresponds to natural seawater in all respects.

A special technique for the "live" transport (export) of Crustaceans and other aquatic animals has also been developed and proved to be successful. The aquatic animals can arrive at its supply destination "alive" and in good condition during a transportation period of 60 hours. The technique is based on reducing the water temperature to a certain degree enough to let the species enter into hibernation stage.

That is why the production of crustaceans is biologically possible and economically feasible by combining ACUCEWMS with TMSS. The aquatic animals live in a constant and controlled environment, which biologically and physically matches that of unpolluted natural seawater.

An additional feature is that the animals are not exposed to any stress, inflicted by changing concentration or lack of essential trace elements. Aquatic animals produced under the TMSS system are tastier than those bred in natural seawater. The promoter has experimented the TMSS system since 1983.