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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7925.2008v21n4p65Abstract
Correlation among water quality parameters of grow-out ponds of Macrobrachium amazonicum. Pond water quality is basic for the success of aquaculture, especially in ponds containing freshwater prawns. The variables considered most important are the dissolved oxygen and the ammonia-nitrogen. Twelve 0.01ha earthen ponds were stocked with 20 juveniles.m-2. Prawns were fed on commercial diet at a rate of 7 to 9% of biomass until the 14th week. After 145 days of stocking, all ponds were drained and harvested. The followingwater parameters were determined weekly: temperature, dissolved oxygen, oxygen biochemical demand, pH, total alkalinity, electrical conductivity, nitrate-N, nitrite-N, ammonia-N, total nitrogen, soluble orthophosphate, total phosphate, chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, chlorophyll c, pheophytin, total suspended solids and turbidity.
Water exchange and daily feeding affected water quality slightly. Correlations among water quality parameters were either weak or absent. The limnological variables analyzed showed that the highest correlations were between the dissolved oxygen and ammonia-nitrogen and between nitrite and turbidity.
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