Utilização de cepas de bactérias no cultivo intensivo de tilápia Oreochromis niloticus, sob sistema de renovação zero água

Abstract

Control of water quality in intensive fish culture systems is offten the bottleneck for their successful operation. The most comon problems of water quality in those systems are related to oxigen depletion, organic matter and inorganic nitrogen accumulation, particularly ammonia. Bioaugmentation refers to the treatment of wastes or detrits using microorganisms, as an exemple nitrifing bacterias, which degradate undisareble substances in the system. The employment of bioaugmentation is becoming an option for recirculating fish cultures. Sugested benefits goes from inorganic nitrogen, phosfate and organic matter removal, to algae control in fish culture water. The aim of this experimental was to compare the intensive culture of tilapia Oreochromis niloticus with zero exchage water with and without biocultures introduction. The experiment consisted of 6 aquariums of 180L and nominal volume of 160L, separeted in two diferent treatments “A” and “Ex”; the first one the control grup and the second one the test. Those aquariums were stocked with juvenils of tilapia weiting 26,20 + 0,20g, and fed with 35%CP. During 35 days of culture none water have been chaged in the system Three times a week biocultures were introduced only on treatment “Ex”. Daily some físico – chemical parameters were collected like: pH, temperature and dissolved oxigen; and every week BOD,COD, total ammonia, nitite, nitrate, phosfate and chlorophyll “a” were analized from “A” and “Ex” treatments. For the experimental evaluation, besides those forementioned parameters, nitrogen budget, and some zootecnical index like: growth rate, food conversion rate and survival were utilized. Although “Ex” treatment has shown better results than “A” treatment, after a statistical analises we concluded that there were no diference between those two treatments