Investigation on Influences of Different Brackish Water Sources on Larval Quality and Developmental Indices of Freshwater Prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii)

Rafiee, Gholamreza; Rezaei Tavabe, Kamran; Frinsko, Mike; Daniels, Harry; Shoeiry, Mohamamd Mehdi

doi:10.22059/jfisheries.2014.51649

Investigation on Influences of Different Brackish Water Sources on Larval Quality and Developmental Indices of Freshwater Prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Gholamreza Rafiee ¹

Kamran Rezaei Tavabe ²

Mike Frinsko ³

Harry Daniels ⁴

Mohamamd Mehdi Shoeiry ⁵

¹ Professor, Fisheries Sciences Department, Natural Resources Faculty, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

² Graduated of Fisheries Sciences, Fisheries Department, Natural Resources Faculty, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

³ Aquaculture Researcher, Jones Cooperative Extension, North Carolina State University, U.S.A.

⁴ Professor, Aquaculture Section, Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, U.S.A.

⁵ University of Applied Science and Technology of Sarpol Zahab.

10.22059/jfisheries.2014.51649

Abstract

The main objective of the present study was investigation on influences of different brackish water sources on freshwater prawn larval quality and developmental indices. For this study, along a larval period, four brackish water treatments with 12 PPT salinity including diluted marine water, brackish water from marine crystalline salt, brackish water with compounds of New formula and brackish water from municipal drinking water and kitchen salt were prepared; Then larval quality and developmental indices such as larval Stage index (LSI), Larval Condition Index (LCI), larvae dry weight, larval period long, tolerance to formalin stress (LC₅₀-24 h) and survival rate were compared among these different treatments. The findings indicated that the balance of calcium and magnesium concentrations in brackish water is very important on growth, quality and larval development of freshwater shrimp larvae. The concentration of potassium ion between the Mysis and Zoa stages is very important on the larval development so that significant difference for LSI at 10 days post hatch in brackish water from New artificial formula is due to appropriate potassium concentration in it. Also the results showed that brackish water prepared from dilution of marine water is the best case for freshwater prawn hatchery and the brackish water from municipal drinking water and kitchen salt is not suitable for the hatchery; so brackish water prepared from dilution of marine water is suggested for the freshwater prawn larval period in hatcheries.

Keywords

Freshwater Prawn

Larval stage index

Larval Condition Index

Hatchery

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