Experimental estimation of the food intake of larval vendace (Coregonus albula L.) under field conditions

Viljanen, Markku

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-2745-5_21

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“…Similar rapid increases of relative meal size have been reported in growing larvae of several fish species, but they were rarely equated with growth allometries (e.g. vendace Coregonus albula L., Karjalainen & Viljanen ; gilthead seabream Sparus aurata (L.) and Senegal sole Solea senegalensis (Kaup), Parra & Yúfera ; spotted seatrout, Wuenschel & Werner ). In general, beyond a certain fish size, the relative meal size decreases in fish of increasing size, as the developing muscles increasingly restrict the distension of the abdominal region.…”

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Ontogenetic variation of food intake and gut evacuation rate in larvae of the doncellaPseudoplatystoma punctifer, as measured using a non-destructive method

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Food intake (FI) and gut evacuation (Rg) were measured in larvae of Pseudoplatystoma punctifer (4.5–18.4 mm SL) fed Artemia nauplii, taking advantage of the translucence of their abdominal region to achieve this in a non‐destructive way, using digital photographs and mathematical reconstruction of gut volume content (ellipsoidal and cylindrical models for stomach and intestine respectively). The inaccuracy of the method, with reference to counts of nauplii following fish dissection, was low (2.9 ± 1.5%) and independent of fish size (P = 0.6153). Pigmentation hampered measurement in fish >18–19 mm SL. Anaesthesia was needed in fish >9.5 mm SL, thereby preventing the measurement of Rg in individual fish. The FI increased rapidly during the ontogeny, passing from <7% M at 0.6 mg, to 14% M at 1 mg and 21% M at 15–40 mg, and then decreased slightly in larger fish. At 28.5°C, Rg (% M h−1) was modelled as Rg = −8.22 + 12.11 log FI + 6.30 log M – 12.67 (log M)2 (R2 = 0.904, d.f. = 27, with FI in% M and M in mg). Extrapolations of Rg over 24 h gave estimates of daily food rations that fit well with those measured in cannibalistic P. punctifer.

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