Seasonal Trend of Body Protein and Growth of Chironomid Larvae

Nath, Susanta; Modak, Biplob Kumar

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“…The adaptation abilities of benthic macroinvertebrates to the environment can change by pH fluctuations. Increasing alkalinity and pH were reported to have significant effects on the enhancement of protein amounts and body lengths of larval chironomids (Nath et al 2017). Rapid pH changes in an aquatic ecosystem can lead to changes in dynamics of larval chironomid populations, which in turn affect the food chain in a negative manner.…”

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“…Larval chironomids are one of the most important groups in benthic fauna in terms of their roles in food web since they are live food sources for higher aquatic organism, mainly for fish and macroinvertebrates (Habibi et al 1992, Nath et al 2017. Chironomid larvae are also of paramount importance in aquaculture and they are widely used as live food for fish larvae (Sahandi 2011).…”

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“…Therefore, some environmental variables affect larval dynamics in an aquatic environment in different rates depending on the species that the larvae belong to, which in turn makes larval chironomids as potential organisms to be considered as indicator organisms for aquatic environments (Kenney et al 2009). Larval chironomids are one of the most important groups in benthic fauna in terms of their roles in food web since they are live food sources for higher aquatic organism, mainly for fish and macroinvertebrates (Habibi et al 1992, Nath et al 2017. Chironomid larvae are also of paramount importance in aquaculture and they are widely used as live food for fish larvae (Sahandi 2011).…”

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THE GROWTH OF Tanypus punctipennis Meigen (DIPTERA, CHIRONOMIDAE) LARVAE IN LABORATORY CONDITIONS AND THE EFFECTS OF WATER TEMPERATURE AND pH

Gülbunar

Aydin

Çamur-Elipek³

2018

Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences

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Recent taxonomic studies suggest that findings of larval chironomids should be supported also by adult findings in order to obtain more robust and reliable results on the studied group. Moreover identifications of larvae of some species can be made to genus level only due to similarities of some larval characteristics in different species. In such cases, species level identifications can be achieved by the growth of larvae in laboratory conditions. Also, larval culturing under optimum growth conditions will not only make it easy to provide materials for experimental studies and but also achievement of larvae with a higher biomass value to be used as food in the sector. In this study, Tanypus punctipennis Meigen (Diptera, Chironomidae), a very common species in Turkish Thrace, was used as the model organism for culture studies. Individual larvae were cultured from third instar stage to adult form under laboratory conditions. A simple and cheap method is offered for experimental studies on larval growths of chironomids and the effects of water temperature and pH, both with very important roles in larval culturing, were determined. The overall results of laboratory tests showed that the temperature value of 25°C and 7-8 pH interval were the optimal laboratory conditions for culture of T. punctipennis larvae.

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THE GROWTH OF Tanypus punctipennis Meigen (DIPTERA, CHIRONOMIDAE) LARVAE IN LABORATORY CONDITIONS AND THE EFFECTS OF WATER TEMPERATURE AND pH

Gülbunar

Aydin

Çamur-Elipek³

2018

Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences

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“…Chironomus larvae are considered as natural food for different freshwater fishes ( Broyer and Curtet,2011;Medeiros and Arthington, 2008). Due to high protein content, this larva is very nutritious, though the amount of protein varies with the changing physicochemical parameters of aquatic habitats of this insect (Thipkonglars et al 2010;Nath et al 2017). It was reported that the growth rate of some aquarium fish was faster and spawned early when fed with Chironomus larvae.…”

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Effectiveness of Chironomid Larvae in Compare to Other Fish Foods on Growth Parameters and Body Protein of Two Economically Important Fishes

Nath¹,

Samanta²,

Das³

2021

Alinteri

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With the increasing human population, the demand for healthy, nutritious but cheap food also increasing day by day. The product of aquaculture mainly fish is more efficient to improve global food security. Along with the seafood, the effort is going on for more production of freshwater fish. For that reason, proper growth and sufficient proximate principles in fish are essential with a low-cost but healthy fish diet. Trichogaster fasciata and, Heteropneustes fossilis were fed with fourth instar larvae of Chironomus striatipennis (F1), dry Tubifex (F2), and granular floating type aquarium fish food (F3) respectively to observe the nutritional effect of different fish meal. Fish fed with F1 showed effective food conversion ratio and specific growth rate in comparison to fish fed on F2 and F3 respectively. The average daily gain was 214.3 % and 47.61% respectively in two fish when fed with F1. Percent gain weight increased from 1.12 (7th day) to 15.03 (28th day) in T. fasciata and 1.497 (7th day) to 8.21 (28th day) in H. fossilis when fed on F1. The result also showed that the protein level was increased steadily in both fishes when fed with F1 in comparison to other foods. It may be concluded that live larvae of Chironomus striatipennis were more effective fish food than dry Tubifex and aquarium fish food. It is a natural organic fish food with a negligible wastage used for fish and keeps the culture medium clean and debris-free with an ecofriendly environment.

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“…Benthic primary consumer like chironomid larvae (Order Diptera, Family Chironomidae) are continuously exposed to such environments, and may contribute to the accumulation and bio transfer of these heavy metals to upper trophic level. They are thus considered as good biological indicator of aquatic environment degradation [7][8][9]. Chironomus striatapennis was found highly sensitive when exposed to different doses of Arsenic salt [10].…”

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Response of Chironomus striatapennis Larvae Exposed to Three Heavy Metals

Nath

Modak

Das

2018

AJOB

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In this experiment, estimation of LC 50 of Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd) and Mercury (Hg) was carried out when Chironomus striatapennis was exposed to different treatment doses. Chi square was used to test for heterogeneity and the result was found to be significant (p<0.05) in all three metals. Fourth instar larvae were collected from breeding aquarium under laboratory conditions and exposed for 96 hours to different doses of Pb, Cd and Hg for static bioassay to measure the LC 50 . Ten fourth instar larvae were placed in 100 ml beaker with 50 ml of each test solution. Larvae were exposed to six different concentrations, consisting of five trials. A control was also maintained wherein organisms were exposed to distilled water. Larvae were not fed during the toxicity tests. All beakers were free from tube forming materials. Data of mortality were subjected to probit analysis. Results showed that sensitivity of larvae to metals was Hg> Cd >Pb. C. striatapennis showed noticeable response in LC 50 study and was sensitive to low doses of heavy metals. Several secondary consumers have preferred this larva as their food. So unplanned industrialization may increase the level of heavy

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Seasonal Trend of Body Protein and Growth of Chironomid Larvae

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

THE GROWTH OF Tanypus punctipennis Meigen (DIPTERA, CHIRONOMIDAE) LARVAE IN LABORATORY CONDITIONS AND THE EFFECTS OF WATER TEMPERATURE AND pH

THE GROWTH OF Tanypus punctipennis Meigen (DIPTERA, CHIRONOMIDAE) LARVAE IN LABORATORY CONDITIONS AND THE EFFECTS OF WATER TEMPERATURE AND pH

Effectiveness of Chironomid Larvae in Compare to Other Fish Foods on Growth Parameters and Body Protein of Two Economically Important Fishes

Response of Chironomus striatapennis Larvae Exposed to Three Heavy Metals

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