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Mass Culture of Zooplankton, Ceriodaphnia cornuta on Animal Excreta

Volume : 99
Issue: Oct-dec
Pages: 867 - 870
Published: May 03, 2023
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Abstract


Daphnia spp. is one of the important live feed usable in practical aquaculture that is present in ponds all over India. Enrichment of Daphnia is essential to promote Aquaculture Industry. Hence the present study was focused to study in mass culture of Ceriodaphnia cornuta using cow dung, goat pellets, chicken droppings and cow urine along with groundnut cake and superphosphate. Groundnut oilcake had the highest nitrogen (4.97%), phosphorus (0.15%) and potassium (0.73%). Among the animal wastes cow urine had the highest amount of nitrogen (1.93%) and potassium (1%), while chicken droppings had the highest amount of phosphorus (0.80%). The population of Ceriodaphnia varied significantly with animal excreta. The highest mean population was observed in chicken droppings slurry at 50g per 20 liters of water.

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867 - 870
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

Keywords


Animal wastes Zooplankton Ceriodaphnia cornuta Organic manures.
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