%0 Journal Article
%T Some aspects in early life stage of climbing perch, Anabas testudineus larvae
%A Thumronk Amornsakun
%A Wasan Sriwatana
%A Ponpanom Promkaew
%J Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology
%D 2005
%I Songkla University
%X The sexual maturity of female climbing perch, Anabas testudineus was studied by determining fecundity and gonadosomatic index (GSI). It was found that the size at sexual maturity of female climbing perch was 15.20¡À1.24 cm (mean¡ÀSD) in total length and 61.10¡À17.32 g in body weight. The eggs were floating and rounded. The fertilized eggs had a diameter of 830¡À39 ¦Ìm. The fecundity was 24,120.5¡À3,328.24 ova/ fish and gonadosomatic index (GSI) was 10.4¡À2.5%. Newly hatched larvae of climbing perch were produced by induced spawning using chemical injection (Suprefact and Motilium). The sexually mature fishes were cultured in fiber-glass tank (water volume 300 liters) with the ratio of male and female brooders 2:1. The fertilization rate, hatching out and hatching rate experiments were carried out using a 15-liter glass aquarium (water volume 10 liters) containing 7,000-9,000 eggs. It was found that the eggs were floating and rounded. The fertilized eggs had a diameter of 830¡À39 ¦Ìm. The average fertilization rate was 92.67%, hatching out was 20 hr 30 min and average hatching rate was 87.44% at a water temperature of 27.0-30.5oC. Sampling of the newly-hatched larvae was done at 2-hour intervals, when 20 of them were randomly taken and preserved in 10% buffered formalin for later deter-mination of yolk absorption time. Observation using a microscope revealed that newly hatched larvae were 2.02¡À0.20 mm in total length and had yolk sacs of 111.33¡À46.19 mm3 in volume. The yolk sacs were completely absorbed within 92 hr after hatching at a water temperature of 27.0-30.5oC. Up until full mouth development (start of feeding), 2-hourly samplings of twenty newly hatched larvae were taken from an aquarium for observation of the size of mouth opening. All the larvae had open mouths about 28 hr after hatching (2.95¡À0.59 mm TL), with the mouths measuring 328.42¡À32.23 mm in height. The feeding experiments were carried out using a 15-liter glass aquarium (water volume 10 liters) containing 1,000 larvae aged 1 days post-hatching (just before the mouth opened). They were fed with rotifer at a density of 10 ind/ml. Twenty larvae were collected at random from the aquarium at 2-hourly intervals, preserved in 10% buffered formalin, and then dissected to determine the presence of rotifer in the digestive tract. The digestive tracts were fixed at 32 hr of hatching at water temperatures of 27.0-30.5oC, and measured477.63¡À47.80 mm in mouth height. The average number of rotifer in the digestive tract at the start of feeding was 1.50 individual/larva. A starvation experiment was carried ou
%K fecundity
%K yolk absorption
%K mouth development
%K start of feeding
%K starvation
%K feeding scheme
%K daily food uptake
%K larviculture
%K climbing perch
%K Anabas testudineus
%U http://www.sjst.psu.ac.th/journal/aquatic-suppl-pdf/32-climbing-perch.pdf