Culture of Ceriodaphnia cornuta, Using Chicken Manure as Fertilizer: Conversion of Waste Product into Highly Nutritive Animal Protein

Culture of C. cornuta on Chicken Manure

Authors

  • Kareem Altaff Unit of Reproductive Biology and Live Feed Culture, Department of Zoology, The New College (Autonomous), Chennai-600 014, Tamilnadu, India
  • Mehraj Ud Din War Unit of Reproductive Biology and Live Feed Culture, Department of Zoology, The New College (Autonomous), Chennai-600 014, Tamilnadu, India

Keywords:

culture, chicken manure, Ceriodaphnia cornuta, live feed

Abstract

For finding a cheap and suitable feed for culture of Ceriodaphnia cornuta studies were carried out for 21 days using chicken manure as fertilizer whereupon C. cornuta population ranged between 50 ± 2 and 10,232 ± 202 Ind./L. (individuals/L). The culture peaked on the 17th day producing the maximum density of 10,232 ± 202 Ind./L. Thus chicken manure can be used as a fertilizer for mass culture of cladocerans, specially C. cornuta.

 

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Published

2010-04-26

How to Cite

Altaff, K., & War, M. U. D. (2010). Culture of Ceriodaphnia cornuta, Using Chicken Manure as Fertilizer: Conversion of Waste Product into Highly Nutritive Animal Protein: Culture of C. cornuta on Chicken Manure. Biological Sciences - PJSIR, 53(2), 89–91. Retrieved from https://v2.pjsir.org/index.php/biological-sciences/article/view/431

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 2 (2010): Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research

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