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Farzad Ghiasi

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Faculty of Natural Resources
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Research

Title
The Effects of Natural Zeolite (Clinoptilolte) on Water Quality, Growth Performance and Nutritional Parameters of fresh water aquarium fish, Angel (Pterophyllum scalare)
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Keywords: Natural zeolite, growth performance, water quality, Pterophyllum scalare, fresh water aquarium fish, angel fish.
Year
2012
Journal International Journal of Research in Fisheries and aquaculture
DOI
Researchers Farzad Ghiasi ، Mohammad Sedigh Jasour

Abstract

To evaluate the effects of different levels of Iranian natural zeolite, clinoptilolite, (0, 4, 10 and 15 g/L) on water quality, growth and nutritional parameters of fresh water aquarium fish, angel, Pterophyllum scalare, present study was designed for 30 days. According to the obtained results ammonia and water hardness was significantly reduced in treated water in compare with control. In fish, that treated with 10 and 15g/l zeolite, weight and weight gain were significantly (p<0.05) more than other treated groups. In zeolite treated fish, food conversion rate and specific growth rate significantly improved (p<0.05) but among the treatments, 10 and 15 g zeolite l-1 added groups showed better performance than control and 4 g zeolite l-1added. Based on the results, addition of 10 g/ l zeolite is considered as an optimum dose zeolite for improvement of water quality and growth performance in Pterophyllum scalare.