1. EFFECT OF THE C:N RATIO ON Daphnia magna (Straus, 1820) PRODUCTION USING TILAPIA FARMING WASTEWATER
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Alfredo Olivera Gálvez, Luis Otavio Brito, Géssica Cavalcanti Pereira Mota, Clarissa Vilela Figueiredo da Silva Campos, David Nunes Aguiar Bruzaca, and Laenne Barbara Silva de Moraes
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biology ,Chemistry ,Aquaculture of tilapia ,Daphnia magna ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,010501 environmental sciences ,Aquatic Science ,biology.organism_classification ,01 natural sciences ,Animal science ,040102 fisheries ,0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries ,Animal Science and Zoology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
The purpose of this study was to produce Daphnia magna in wastewater from Tilapia farmed in a biofloc system, to evaluate three different carbohydrate:nitrogen ratios. The experiment was conducted for 30 days following a completely randomized experimental design, with the three treatments: C:N 10:1, C:N 15:1 and C:N 20:1, all fed with Chlorella vulgaris. The physical-chemical variables of the water analyzed were: temperature, dissolved oxygen (DO), pH, TAN, NO2 , hardness and alkalinity. The following growth variables of the Daphnia were also evaluated: Maximum average density (MAD), Maximum density day (MDD), Specific growth rate (SGR), Doubling time (DT) and yield (Y). The water quality variables remained in the range of ideal conditions for the species, presenting significant differences (p
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- 2019