Truevet

Truevet Aqua

Botanicals that survive the feed,
and never reach the residue panel.

Fish and shrimp farmers asked us for the same thing poultry and swine producers did: standardised plant actives instead of antibiotics, with the numbers to back them. Three Truevet products carry over to water. Each one is placed where it survives the feed-making process.

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01 · Why botanicals in water

Three pressures, one answer.

Residue-free exports

Shrimp and fish consignments are tested for antibiotic residues at the border, and rejected lots are named publicly. Botanical additives carry no drug residue and no withdrawal period.

Plant protein brings mycotoxins

Every tonne of fishmeal replaced by soy, maize or rice bran brings that crop's mycotoxin risk into the feed — and shrimp and trout are among the most sensitive farmed animals.

Stress comes in windows

Stocking, transfer, moults and sudden weather changes are when stock is most exposed. Immune and mucus support works best fed ahead of those windows, in pulses.

02 · The range

Three products, placed where they work.

Rates are working rates from the published literature and our livestock data. Our own fish and shrimp trials will confirm or change them; until they report, no result on this page is ours.

Immune and skin-mucus conditioner

ImmuBloom

Yeast β-1,3/1,6-glucan and mannan-oligosaccharides are the most studied immune feed ingredients in shrimp and fish. Feeding studies repeatedly report higher phenoloxidase, lysozyme and phagocytic activity, and better survival through stress. Both are polysaccharides, so they survive extrusion.

Working rate
2 kg / tonne feed
When
In pulses of 2–4 weeks around stocking, transfer, moults and sharp weather changes, then 2 weeks off. Fed nonstop at high rates, β-glucan loses its effect in shrimp.
How
Into the mash at the mill, or top-dressed on the farm for pulse feeding.

The β-glucan is the active we test and release each batch on; the Astragalus fraction has far less fish data behind it.

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Mycotoxin binder for plant-protein feeds

MycoGuard

As soy, maize, DDGS and rice bran replace fishmeal, aflatoxin and other mycotoxins come into aquafeed with them. Shrimp and rainbow trout are among the most aflatoxin-sensitive farmed animals. Clay binders are heat-stable and work in any feed format.

Working rate
2 kg / tonne feed
When
Continuously whenever plant proteins or grain by-products make up a large share of the formula, or when a raw-material lot tests positive.
How
Into the mash before conditioning; the clay and yeast fractions come through extrusion intact.

Stay at the label rate: clay binders overdosed can also bind some micronutrients and in-feed medicines.

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Essential-oil gut programme

PhytoX

Carvacrol, thymol and cinnamaldehyde act on bacterial membranes. Feeding studies with oregano and thyme oils in catfish, tilapia and shrimp report better growth, gut health and survival — for example oregano oil in channel catfish (Zheng et al. 2009, Aquaculture 292:214–218).

Working rate
1 kg / tonne feed
When
Through the grow-out.
How
Never into the mash before extrusion: the oils evaporate and the fat coat melts. Add it after pelleting — in the coating oil at the mill, or top-dressed on the farm.

A liquid coating grade made for the mill's oil line is in development; until then use the powder in the coating oil or on the farm.

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03 · How to apply

Feed-making decides what survives.

Shrimp

Pacific white shrimp (L. vannamei), black tiger (P. monodon)

Steam-pelleted sinking feed, 85–95 °C

Slow feeders: a pellet can sit in water for an hour before it is eaten, so anything water-soluble washes out. Farms top-dress feed with supplements and a binder every day.

Warm-water fish

Tilapia, pangasius, Indian and Chinese carps, catfish

Extruded floating feed, 120–140 °C — and farm-made feeds across South Asia

Extrusion is the harshest step in any feed: heat and pressure for under a minute, enough to boil off essential oils and melt fat coatings.

Cold-water fish

Rainbow trout (including Kashmir's own trout farms), Atlantic salmon

Extruded, then vacuum-coated with oil

The oil coat after extrusion is the natural carrier for heat-sensitive actives.

RouteImmuBloomMycoGuardPhytoX
Into the mash
Mixed with the raw materials before conditioning and extrusion or pelleting. Only for actives that survive 85–140 °C.
YesYesNo — oils lost in extrusion
Coated at the mill
Dispersed in the coating oil and vacuum- or drum-coated onto finished pellets after they cool.
Not neededNot neededYes
Top-dressed on the farm
Mixed with a little oil or a feed binder, tumbled with the day's pellets and air-dried for 20–30 minutes before feeding.
YesNot neededYes

Work out kilograms needed and cost per kilogram produced with the aquaculture dose calculator.

04 · Our own trials

In flight, without figures.

Listed live from our trial ledger. A number appears only once a trial has reported — targets are not results.

05 · Regulatory

Registered for livestock. Aquaculture is separate.

Our registrations cover these products as feed additives under each country's livestock rules. In most markets aquaculture use is approved separately, by a different authority. None is filed yet; we file market by market with each distributor.

  • IndiaCoastal Aquaculture Authority (CAA) approval for inputs used on coastal shrimp farmsTo be filed
  • BangladeshDepartment of FisheriesTo be filed
  • VietnamFisheries authority (separate from the livestock department)To be filed
  • Other marketsConfirmed with each distributor before the first shipmentCase by case

06 · From the lab

What comes next.

Ectoparasite programme

ResearchPatent pending

A first-in-class, plant-derived in-feed approach to the crustacean parasites of farmed fish — sea lice in salmon, Argulus and Lernaea in carp and tilapia. Research stage: not for sale, and no claims are made.

PhytoX liquid coating grade

Formulation

The same three essential oils in a form that disperses in the mill's coating oil, for extruded feeds.

Pond water-quality botanical

Concept

Yucca saponins, already used in ponds to help manage ammonia.

Aqua stress coating

Concept

Betaine-led: a feed attractant and cell-volume protector for salinity and temperature swings.

Bring Truevet Aqua to your market.

We are appointing aquaculture distributors and feed-mill partners now. Tell us your species and feed type; we reply with the application guide, a registration plan for your country and a trial sample.

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