About twenty years ago we couldn’t imagine that more than 100 000 tourists would spend holidays at Great Yarovoye Lake annually. Artemia feeds millions of prawns and valuable fish in South America, Southeast Asia, and Europe. It perfectly fits with Russian environmental conditions, perfect for recreation and health improvement of thousands of people.

Some words about this lake. Great Yarovoye Lake was formed in Western Siberia between Russia and Kazakhstan, not far from China and Mongolia. The average  summer weather is up to 35°C, and winter temperatures are low enough for ice to be 60 cm thick. Only unique types of Artemia can survive in these severe conditions with such temperature difference.

Siberian Artemia contains a 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. Hardy Artemia produces an unusually strong gene.

Now we know how smart the lake’s ecosystem is arranged. About twenty years local Artemia perfectly survives in “fresh salinity”. It really does.The groundwater influx compensates for the lake's evaporation. When water salinity changes from 13.6% in spring to 15 – 15.2% in summer, a necessary amount of phytoplankton appears and Artemia has enough food and may lay eggs. With a lack of food Artemia doesn’t breed. Cysts are accumulated in the lake and we check and provide favourable conditions for the resistant long-lived population of Artemia. We also supply all our customers around the world with food for the prawns.

The conditions here are truly unique. The lake with crustaceans is under the state protection and research associates’s permanent control. The State and our company both want everything to be ok. We think that careful attention to the lake gives stable long-term results. That's why we can be sure of the reliability of our business.

Our product has an 85% hatching level and even higher. And that is how we make sure that 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. We talk about humidity, amount of cysts per gram of the product.

Every spring we inspect the lake, check the size of the future population and verify the egg-laying starting time. The main factor here is the phytoplankton – nutritive base for the crustaceans. The higher amount of food, the higher fertility level 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 control when 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 which can affect the hatching level.

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

We never use 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 you the quality of it.

We check the humidity level while drying the cysts. After it is close to 8% we stop the process, check the products, pack them, prepare all the documents and then they are sent to you.

It is easy to work with our product. We can show you how to do it in the right way if it is needed.