The efficacy of the aquatic anaesthetic AQUI‐S® for anaesthesia of a small freshwater fish,Melanotaenia australis |
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Authors: | M J Young |
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Institution: | Centre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Animal Biology (M092), University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia |
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Abstract: | For stage four anaesthesia of the western rainbowfish Melanotaenia australis the most efficacious concentration of AQUI‐S® was found to be 80 mg l?1 when five different doses were tested at 27° C (range 26·5–27·5° C). This gave a mean ±s.e. (n = 10) induction time of 140·4 ± 8·9 s and recovery time of 180·2 ± 8·9 s and resulted in 10% mortality when fish were continuously exposed for 15 min. All fish given this dose during induction and recovery time trials ate within 1 h of recovery, and there was zero mortality during a subsequent 1 month monitoring period. |
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Keywords: | anaesthetic clove oil isoeugenol Melanotaeniidae rainbowfish |
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