“…The primary respirometer bottle (Chen and Shih, 1955), Plexiglas device (Zhang et al, 1982), and transparent plastic respirometer chamber (Li, 1991) were developed to improve the respirometer (Song et al, 1997;Lei, 2002;Sun et al, 2010;Xu et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2012) and homemade oxygen consumption rate devices (Du et al, 2013;Mamun et al, 2013;Qiu et al, 2014). However, these oxygen consumption rate devices are not compatible with experiments on fi sh because they diff er in body size: the density of experimental fi sh must be repeatedly adjusted according to the test temperature, fl ow velocity, and other parameters (Dalvi et al, 2009;Lin et al, 2012;Tejpal et al, 2014). Alternatively, other devices with various specifi cations can be employed, and a reasonable match ensures scientifi cally credible results.…”