Influence of certain environmental parameters on mass production of rotifers: A review

Larviculture of many finfishes and crustaceans in aquaculture depends mainly on the live feed and its unavailability in sufficient quantity is hampering its expansion and culture progress all around the world. The most suitable feed for marine finfish larvae is the commonly available zooplankton species such as rotifer, copepods and Artemia nauplii. Among all, the live feed that has been demonstrated more successfully as the first feed for most of the marine finfish species is rotifer. Optimum conditions are required for better growth, reproduction and increased productivity of rotifers. The major factors that influence the population size of rotifer are temperature and salinity. Hence, the impact of environmental parameters with special focus on the salinity and temperature on the increase in biomass and smaller rotifer production is of utmost importance in the present scenario

[1]  S. Aanand,et al.  Effect of feeding rate and feeding frequency in mass culture of Brachionus plicatilis in semi-continuous method with a yeast-based diet , 2017 .

[2]  K. Devaraj,et al.  Use of commercial probiotics for the improvement of water quality and rotifer density in outdoor mass culture tanks , 2016 .

[3]  G. E. Odo,et al.  Mass production of rotifer (Branchionus calyciflorus) for aquaculture in south-eastern Nigeria , 2015 .

[4]  P. Stalin,et al.  Recent Advances in Rotifer Culture and Its Application for Larviculture of Finfishes , 2015 .

[5]  B. Santhosh,et al.  Zooplankton for marine fish larval feed , 2013 .

[6]  S. Nandini,et al.  Studies on comparative population growth of some species of the rotifer Lecane (Rotifera). , 2011, Journal of environmental biology.

[7]  E. Lubzens,et al.  Production and Nutritional Value of Rotifers , 2007 .

[8]  E. Lubzens,et al.  Biotechnology and aquaculture of rotifers , 2001, Hydrobiologia.

[9]  R. Rico-Martínez,et al.  Effect of temperature and food concentration in two species of littoral rotifers , 1998, Hydrobiologia.

[10]  T. Abu-Rezq,et al.  Live food production using batch culture and chemostat systems in Kuwait , 1997, Hydrobiologia.

[11]  Maria Rosa Miracle,et al.  Salinity and temperature influence in rotifer life history characteristics , 1989, Hydrobiologia.

[12]  J. J. Gilbert,et al.  Polymorphism in the rotifer Asplanchna sieboldi , 1976, Cell and Tissue Research.

[13]  E. Lubzens.  Raising rotifers for use in aquaculture , 1987, Hydrobiologia.

[14]  H. Su,et al.  Collection and culture of live foods for aquaculture in Taiwan , 2004, Hydrobiologia.

[15]  E. Lubzens,et al.  Rotifers as food in aquaculture , 1989, Hydrobiologia.

[16]  M. Arimoto,et al.  Effect of temperature on resting egg formation of the tropical SS-type rotifer Brachionus rotundiformis Tschugunoff , 2003 .

[17]  P. Sorgeloos,et al.  The use of ozone in a high density recirculation system for rotifers , 2001 .

[18]  O. Vadstein,et al.  Control of the bacterial flora of Brachionus plicatilis and Artemia franciscana by incubation in bacterial suspensions , 2000 .

[19]  P. Sorgeloos,et al.  High-density production of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis in a recirculation system: consideration of water quality, zootechnical and nutritional aspects. , 2000 .

[20]  S. Palanichamy,et al.  Techniques for the mass culture of rotifers and moina , 1998 .

[21]  Patrick Sorgeloos,et al.  Manual on the production and use of live food for aquaculture , 1996 .

[22]  A. Hagiwara,et al.  Culture technology of marine rotifers and the implications for intensive culture of marine fish in Japan , 1996 .

[23]  T. Snell,et al.  Morphology, reproduction, genetics, and mating behavior of small, tropical marine Brachionus strains (Rotifera) , 1995 .

[24]  Y. Carmeli,et al.  Biochemical quality of marine unicellular algae with special emphasis on lipid composition. II: Nannochloropsis sp. , 1993 .

[25]  A. Sukenik,et al.  Biochemical quality of marine unicellular algae with special emphasis on lipid composition. I. Isochrysis galbana , 1991 .

[26]  H. Hirata,et al.  Salinity Adaptability of Five Different Strains of the Rotifer Brachionus plicatilis. , 1991 .

[27]  J. Blanco,et al.  Biomass production and variation in the biochemical profile (total protein, carbohydrates, RNA, lipids and fatty acids) of seven species of marine microalgae , 1989 .

[28]  C. M. James,et al.  An intensive chemostat culture system for the production of rotifers for aquaculture , 1989 .

[29]  P. S. Joshi.  Influence of salinity on population growth of a rotifer, Brachionus plicatilis (Mullen) , 1988 .

[30]  T. Snell.  Effect of temperature, salinity and food level on sexual and asexual reproduction in Brachionus plicatilis (Rotifera) , 1986 .

[31]  Shimon Marom,et al.  Salinity dependence of sexual and asexual reproduction in the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis , 1985 .

[32]  K. Hirayama,et al.  Fundamental Studies on Physiology of Rotifer for its Mass Cultrure-II , 1972 .