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Microalgae in aquaculture. Pablo Gonzalez-Alanis. Microalgae in aquaculture. Manage a body of water Provide more food Chemical fertilizers, organic materials (manures), suplemetary diet. Microalgae in aquaculture. Successful colonization Light to provide energy Inorganic nutrients
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Microalgae in aquaculture Pablo Gonzalez-Alanis
Microalgae in aquaculture • Manage a body of water • Provide more food • Chemical fertilizers, organic materials (manures), suplemetary diet
Microalgae in aquaculture • Successful colonization • Light to provide energy • Inorganic nutrients • Water Temperature
Microalgae in aquaculture • Bacillariophyta • Cyanophyta • Dinophyta • Euglenophyta
Microalgae in aquaculture • Experiment objective: • Observe the changes in the phytoplankton colony in a shrimp tank
Microalgae in aquaculture • Samples collection • Cell counting • Identification
Samples collection • 3 tanks made of plastic liner (23 m2 aprox) • 50 shrimps/ m2 • Commercial pelleted feed (25 % of total shrimp biomass) daily
Samples collection • Collected weekly • Analyzed (identificated and counted)
Cell counting • Standar compound microscope with 10, 20 and 40 X magnification objectives • Haemacytometer
Identification • Key to the major groups (Divisions) of phytoplankton in northern Queensland prawn ponds (after Bellinger 1992) Stafford C. 1999.
Results • Synechocystis
Results • Coscinodiscuss
Results • Gymnodium
Results • Navicula
Results • Agmenellum