Tea Seed Powder

TeaBiotic uses have various benefits in aquaculture. They are:

1. Tea seed meal kills unwanted fishes. Tea saponin is a haemolytic toxin that can dissolve the red blood cells of fish. So it can kill wild fish, loach, snail, river mussel, frog eggs, tadpoles and some aquatic insects.
2. Tea saponin is easily soluble in alkaline water. Therefore, adding little lime water during use could have a better efficiency. A report from Zagazig University indicates the tea saponin effects to oreochromisniloticus.
3. Tea seed meal benefit increase fertility to a barren pond. Tea seed residue contains high content of protein, which enriches ponds with little silt and poor substrate.
4. It can decompose on its own. As a 100% organic fertilizer, tea seed cake can degradation on its own, non-toxic residue, no impact on human body, and safe to use.
5. It does not kill aquatic plants and has a growth-promoting effect on aquatic plants.
6. It stimulate the moulting of shrimp. Camellia seed powder brings no side effects to prawns and crab larvae. “Following exposure to saponin as low as 0.5 mg l-1, P. japonicus shortened the time to the first moult, and decreased its feeding, growth and moulting frequency.
7. It is more economical than chemicals. Effective chemicals often takes a lot of time and financial resources to formulate. But organic tea seed powder is from natural and cost less.

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