20 years ago we didn’t think that around 150 000 tourists would spend their holidays here annually. Artemia, which feeds millions of prawns and valuable fish in Southeast Asia, South America and Europe, perfectly fits with unique environmental conditions here in Russia, ideal for health improvement and recreation of thousands of people. And that is not all.

We are lucky to have this lake. Great Yarovoye Lake was formed in Western Siberia not far from the border between Russia and Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia. The weather in summer is up to 35°C; with winter temperatures so low that the ice can be 60 cm thick. And we know that a really special type of Artemia can survive in these severe conditions with great temperature difference.

Siberian Artemia has to accumulate maximal amount of essential amino acids, vitamins, unsaturated fatty acids while forming its cysts. Then this Siberian immunity is transferred to the immature larvae of prawns or fish juveniles. Strong Artemia may devolve quite strong genes. After trying it at least once our customers from the tropics won’t accept anything else.

Now we are sure that the lake’s ecosystem is much smarter than people. For around 20 years we have been observing that local Artemia perfectly survives in “fresh salinity”. It really does. Lake evaporation is compensated with backwater from the fresh underground water. When water salinity varies from 13.6% in spring to 15 – 15.2% in summer, necessary amount of phytoplankton appears and Artemia has enough food and may lay eggs. And Artemia doesn’t even think about breeding if it doesn’t get enough food. Cysts are usually accumulated in the lake and we check and provide favourable conditions for the resistant long-lived population of Artemia. We also provide all our customers around the world with food for the prawns.

Everyone likes unique conditions here. The lake with crustaceans is under the state protection and daily control of our research associates. Both the State and our company want everything to be fine. We suppose that careful attention to the lake gives stable long-term results. We can predict its potential and so we can be sure of reliability of our business.

You would like to get the product with 85% hatching level and even higher. And that is what we do to ensure you get it. Our on-the-site laboratory always checks if the quality of the ready-made fodder for your prawns meets all the parameters needed for the hatching: humidity, amount of cysts per gram of the product.

Every spring we examine the lake, check the size of the future population and verify the starting time of the egg-laying. The main factor here is the nutritive base for the crustaceans – phytoplankton. If there is a higher amount of food, fertility level is high and we may start collecting the eggs earlier. If there is a lower amount of food, we need to wait for the favourable conditions. We always make sure the timing is right.

We start with collecting test samples and checking the condition of the crustaceans. If they actively throw down the eggs, we need to keep waiting, as we don’t want to get cysts from the immature egg sac. It can affect the hatching level, and neither you nor we need that.

As soon as raw materials are ready, and cysts are in diapauses, we put them into the refrigerated warehouse for the temperature activation. It may last from 3 to 6 months. During this time our laboratory assistants check the quality of all the batches and the hatching level. As soon as it is close to target level or even higher, raw materials are sent for processing.

We have never used the artificial acceleration of the maturation process. Natural conditions are favourable for Artemia and its biological value. We do not want acceleration, we want to be sure of our product and to guarantee its quality to you.

While drying the cysts we check the humidity level. When it is close to 8% we stop the process, check the products, pack them, prepare all the documents and only after that they are sent to you.

As practice shows, it is easy to work with our product. We can always teach you how to do it in the correct way, and we can even come and visit you if it is needed and if we are invited.