The invention discloses a method for improving the
survival rate of water chestnut shell seedlings. The method comprises the following steps: placing a
plastic film or a corrugated plate in a water tank, adding an
algae nutrient solution, suspending flowing water, carrying out aerated culture for 15-30 days, installing a black sunshade net above the water tank, enabling the illumination intensity to be lower than 5000
Lux, the temperature of a culture
water body to be 20-30 DEG C and the
salinity to be 30-32 ppt, after the
benthic diatom is overgrown, draining all water in the water tank, opening the sunshade net, and exposing the
benthic diatom under
sunlight, and when a part of
benthic diatom dies, adding water into the
pool for ventilation, arranging a sunshade net again, then transferring the horseshoe
snail fertilized eggs into the
diatom pool after solarization, pausing flowing water, and performing ventilation culture. According to the method, about 30%-70% of benthic
diatom is dried to death by using a
sunlight exposure method, and meanwhile, part of fresh benthic
diatom is reserved, so that the attachment
metamorphosis and survival of the horseshoe
snail larvae are remarkably improved, and a
technical support is provided for large-scale production of the horseshoe snails.