[PDF] Breeding, embryonic development and salinity tolerance of Skunk clownfish Amphiprion akallopisos | Semantic Scholar (2024)

It is possible to rear juvenile clownfish at 15‰ without harming growth or inducing oxidative stress, possibly reducing costs of water salinization.

The breeding method specifically in brackishwater developed in the present study is a new approach that will help the people from the regions of estuary and backwater to enhance their livelihood and it will lead to reduce the exploitation from the wild habitat.

The suitability of the marine rotifer Brachionus plicatilis as a starter food for larviculture of A. sebae larvae was investigated and it was found that smaller preys are essential for clownfish larvae at first feeding.

Of at least thirty-nine damselfish species that have been reproduced in captivity, only nine are currently commercially available, and improvements in the low survival of damselfishes larvae can be expected as zootechnical aspects for larviculture are perfected.

Results indicate that embryonic stages are more tolerant of extremely hypersaline conditions relative to yolk sac larvae; however, both stages are considered stenohaline, which has very real implications for ELS red drum populations in the Gulf of Mexico.

The hybrid clownfish underwent metamorphosis earlier and reached marketable size much sooner compared to its parent species, making it a suitable candidate for ornamental fish culture.

It is suggested that the first feeding of the clownfish A. percula larvae can be initiated before 12 hr, for better growth and survival.

Limiting the exposure of hermaphrodite A. ocellaris juveniles to 17 -methyltestosterone showed the most promising result in developing male broodstock.

An involvement of PRL in the processes of osmoregulation and homeostasis in A. melanopus is suggested and cinnamon clownfish could survive under salinities as low as 10 ppt.

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A technology for breeding and rearing of the clownfish Amphiprion chrysogaster was developed at Vizhinjam Research Centre of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute and the successful development of broodstock, methods of hatching the eggs, development of a biological detoxifying filtration system for larval rearing and appropriate larval feeding schedule.

A viable technique has been developed in the marine hatchery of CMFRI, Kochi for the captive breeding and juvenile production of P. biaculeatus for the first time in India.

Eggs of the English sole were incubated at a number of salinity–temperature conditions within the ranges of 10–40‰ salinity (S) and 2–12 C and optimum conditions for survival appeared to be associated with salinities and temperatures of 25–28‰ and 8–9‰.

This is the first report on hatchery production of false clown fish, A. ocellaris both in India and elsewhere using estuarine water and they attained marketable size within three months.

Evidence is provided that flat head catfish could tolerate exposure to many brackish waters along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States and that the dispersal of introduced flathead catfish populations among rivers may not be limited by estuarine salinities.

An attempt was made to study the captive breeding and larval rearing of Amphiprion sebae by using estuarine water and total larval survival in the present study was 55%.

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