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Title: | Survival, growth and metabolic parameters of silver catfish, rhamdia quelen, juveniles exposed to different waterborne nitrite levels |
Authors: | Lima, Ronaldo de Braun, Neiva Kochhann, Daiani Lazzari, Rafael Radünz-Neto, João Moraes, Bibiana Silveira Loro, Vania Lucia Baldisserotto, Bernardo |
Keywords: | Rhamdia Quelen |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Neotropical Ichthyology |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 9, Número 1, Pags. 147-152 |
Abstract: | High nitrite (NO2-) levels may develop in aquaculture systems due to high fish density, but studies of lethal concentration values and the effect of NO2- on metabolic parameters and growth are scarce. Consequently, in this study was verified the lethal concentration at 96 h (LC50-96h) for (NO2-) in juvenile silver catfish, Rhamdia quelen and the effect of four waterborne NO2- concentrations (0.06, 0.46, 1.19, and 1.52 mg.L-1) on growth, and hepatic and muscular lactate, glucose, glycogen and protein. Nitrite LC50-96h was 20.46 (confidence interval: 16.10-23.68) mg.L-1. In the growth experiment, exposure to NO2-1 did not affect weight, length or specific growth rate, but due to mortality (66.7% and 100% after 20 and 40 days, respectively), biomass of juveniles exposed to 1.52 mg.L-1 NO2- was significantly lower than the biomass of juveniles exposed to other treatments. Therefore, the safe level of nitrite for growth of silver catfish juveniles is below 1.19 mg.L-1 (2% of LC50-96h). Exposure of silver catfish to NO2- for 40 days reduced lactate levels in muscle, but lactate levels increased in liver tissue of fish maintained at 1.19 mg.L-1 NO2-. In addition, glucose levels in muscle and liver tissues were significantly lower in silver catfish exposed to the highest NO2- level. These results indicate that chronic NO2- exposure causes anaerobic substrate oxidation to meet energy demand. © 2011 Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia. |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1590/S1679-62252011005000004 |
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