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AP Biology Lab Report: How the Amount of Motor Oil Affects Hatching Viability of Brine Shrimp Eggs

The last things that have some effect on the shrimp habitat is the weather. For the last two to three years we have been in a drought. This can also cause the stream or creek to been dry up or low on water. When the stream dry up can cause the whole habitat to an end. Also when we in a drought with little to no rain the shrimp can’t survive due to the water is not moving from other end of the stream. The water is not moving then the shrimp doesn’t have a lot of food source to eat.

Brine shrimp are used as live food for aquatic life in aquariums. Brine shrimp are usually easy to hatch out, but water types may make a difference in their viability. This study is being conducted in order to see if there is any significant difference in the types of water used in hatching out brine shrimp eggs. In which type of water do brine shrimp eggs hatch best? By studying the different types of water that could be used and knowing which one provides a better hatch rate, a benefit will be seen by using the best type of water to hatch out future brine shrimp. I believe this project will set out to prove that brine shrimp eggs will hatch best in ocean water.

The purpose of this study was to see whether or not seasons would affect the abundance and size of flatfish species. The hypothesis presented throughout the experiment was that seasonal effect would be present in the flatfishes that were being tested. This hypothesis was made because of the fact that there is a difference in spawning around the year within flatfish species.

This paper observes the efficiencies of three different feed types fed to Epinephelus coioides. These feed types include a soy-based plant protein pellet (AQUA-LIFE), fish meal pellets (Ridley Aqua Feeds) and whole Pilchards. The fish had their dry weight and length measured prior to the commencement of the trial. 12 tanks, with 5 fish per tank were fed the three different feed types. All fish were fed every day of the 5 week trial period. The results showed the fish meal pellets had the most efficient food conversion ratio (FCR) value (0.84), with a standard growth rate (SGR) of 4.28 grams per week. This FCR value was substantially more efficient compared to the value of 2.20 and 2.98 for the Pilchards and plant based protein respectively. Several mortalities occurred in the fish being fed plant based protein, possibly due to high aggression as a result of a lack of nutrients. Water quality parameters were also not ideal for the growth of the fish as all nitrogen levels were above the ideal threshold, with nitrate reaching 89 ppm before a water change was conducted. In conclusion, the fish meal pellets proved to be the most

Yellow perch fingerlings were raised from 2-day old larvae to 1 g size in an indoor recirculating hatchery system, and then transferred to a nursery recirculation system were they were further raised to the average size of 16.5 g. For the purpose of this study, a total of 6000 fish were divided twice, into two, and then into four separate tank units. Each experimental replication consisted of two identical tank units, each stocked with 1500 fish. The growth of both replicates was monitored until the fish reached a market size of 160 g. Fish were raised at constant temperature of 24-25oC. Dissolved oxygen level was maintained at saturation using oxygen injection. Calcium hardness was maintained between 80-150 mg/l using calcium chloride, and pH was maintained between 7.2 and 7.4 with the addition of sodium bicarbonate.

There will be three models applied to a fish case study: Latour's model and two theoretical models which examine animal behavior. The model organism chosen was the cichlid fish; it does not show common sexual ornaments among other animals. The study will research how animal-behavior-research throughout ethology accounts for female ornamental traits.The first step was to find out how many colored female species exist. Jackson soon realized that colorful female fish were not as rare as originally believed to be; many different fields contained data from studying color patterns among females. After noting this, she began exploring the assumptions of sexual selection which consisted of theoretical models.

From a sample size of eight measurements taken from eight different gold fish population, a two-tailed, paired t-test was conducted to determine the relationship between the metabolic rate of gold fish before and after the increase of environmental temperature. As shown in table 1, for the control group, or the population before the increase of environmental temperature, the mean amount of oxygen consumed per hour per kilogram of fish was 267 delta[O2]/(hour*kg), with a

Dissolved Oxygen is highly essential for a healthy aquatic ecosystem. Aquatic organisms need oxygen dissolved in water to stay alive. The need for Oxygen is dependent on species and life stage. While some organisms adapt to low oxygen level, others do not. Amount of dissolved Oxygen in a system can affect the solubility and availability of nutrients (Fondriest Environmental, 2014). The Oxygen content of water bodies varies with temperature, turbulence, salinity, photosynthetic ability of algae and plants and atmospheric pressure, decreasing with rising temperature and salinity, and increasing with rising atmospheric pressure (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, 2012). In water it usually is expressed in milligrams per

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Brine Shrimp are a part of family Crustacean. Artemia are closely related to the shrimp family and belong to the phylum Arthropoda. Artemia occupies an important place in the aquaculture system. Since the development of commercial marine fish culture in the late 1970s, the demand for the Artemia cysts has gradually increased from a few metric tons to approximately 800 metric tons per year, representing approximately 40% of the total aquaculture demand for feeds for early stages of all types of fish. Artemia for feeding ensures a better energy balance in food intake and assimilation, and thereby improves the performance of the fish. (P. Sorgeloos et al. 2001). Artemia can live in water with much greater or much less salt than in normal seawater. They tolerate salinity in an amount higher than 50% or nearly saturated solution, and can live for a few days in solutions very different from sea water, for example, manganese or silver nitrate solution, but iodized salt is harmful for them. In fresh water Artemia salina will not survive. Low levels of salinity does not permit naupilii survive as well. The present study aims to examine the effect of different salinity levels on the newly hatched brine shrimp. The dilemma presented under the new study in the department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Utah State University and the U.S. Geological Survey in Utah was aiming to analyze why the larvae that hatch in early spring from the overwintering cysts are the only ones that survive,

In this paper, a bioeconomic model used by Barbier in two separate papers to explain the relationship between shrimp farming and destruction of mangroves in Thailand’s coastal zone waters (Barbier, 2003) and the Laguna de Terminos in Mexico (Barbier and Strand, 1998) will be used to examine the detrimental effects of clam farming on the Venetian Lagoon ecosystem. Barbier (2003) uses an intertemporal model of an open-access fishery to illustrate the changes in mangrove area (or in this case, area of healthy seafloor) on the carrying capacity of the stock and therefore on production, examining the relationship between the stock (S) and number of fishermen (L). This model operates under several assumptions. The first is that in order to incorporate a habitat-fishery linkage in a bioeconomic fishery model, it must be assumed that the habitat’s role in supporting the growth and maturation of species as a breeding ground and nursery has an effect on the carrying capacity and biological growth of the stock of the fish (Barbier, 2003). Using . Using M_(t ) to denote the area of healthy seafloor, any change in the stock can be illustrated as:

The temperature of a water body is important for a number of reasons. water temperature affects many biological,physical and chemical characteristics, thus playing a major role in the health of an estuary. Water temperature greatly influences estuarine processes such as plant photosynthesis, metabolic rates of aquatic animals, rates of development and reproduction, mobility, migration and distribution patterns, and the response of organisms to toxins,parasites and disease. Water temperature can also have major effects on water chemistry. Long-term temperature changes may have a considerable impact on estuarine ecosystems. Warmer water temperatures encourage rapid growth of heat-tolerant organisms, which often include introduced species brought in on ships from tropical ports. As an example, Pacific Oysters, introduced for aquaculture, will often reproduce in the warm sheltered waters of estuaries, where they settle on rocky shores and reduce the space available for native species. Water temperature is a key factor controlling the rate of biological processes, such as algal growth. For every 10 degrees Celsius (°C) increase in temperature, the rate of biological processes almost doubles. This is why algal blooms and deoxygenation are much more likely to

According to our results, the best temperature for Brinewater Shrimp (that we tested) was 20°C with approximately 70% of the shrimp surviving past 30 minutes. That being said, 20% of the shrimp died within 2 minutes, indicating that this temperature isn’t the ideal temperature for the shrimp to live in. At 35°C, 50% of the shrimp died after half an hour, with a 40% dying after 10 minutes. Lastly, all shrimp died in less than 2 minutes at 50°C, meaning that this temperature is far too hot for shrimp to survive in.

Fish or shrimp will provide dissolved and particulate nutrients and oxidation reduction potential reducing compound to the inorganic extractive and organic extractive (Sasikumar et al, 2015). Selection of fish species or shrimp species, organic extractive and inorganic extractive is depends on type of system that wanted to establish. IMTA system that is open to the environment such as cage culture have sufficient to rear extractive organisms but IMTA system with land-based such as recirculation system require much tighter coupling of the different trophic level under cultivation (Sasikumar et al,