- Docente: Giuseppe Mosconi
- Credits: 3
- SSD: AGR/20
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Aquaculture and Ichthyopathology (cod. 8520)
Course contents
- Identification of the principal fishes Family in the freshwater commerce:Belontiidae; Callichtydae; Characidae;Cichlidae; Cobitidae; Cyprinidae;Cyprinodontidae; Loricariidae;Poeciliidae.
- The aquarium – Requirements and factors that allow the correct functioning of the aquarium
- Dimension/proportion; density of population.
- Filter: types of filtration; materials utilized.
- Illumination: types of illumination; valuation of the light.
- Heating: types of heating; T°C required for the different
species.
- Water: parameters of value end control: pH, GH, KH, NH3, NO2,
NO3, O2, CO2, PO4.
- Acclimatization and prophylaxis of the aquatic animals
- Modality of acclimatization for the aquarium's fishes.
- Equipment for the health in aquarium: Ozonator, UV Lamp, Calcium
Reactor, Skimmer.
Semeiotics of aquarium's fishes – Study of signs and behaviours that allow a diagnosis.
- Roles exercised by the aquarium's plants
- Therapy – Approach to the fishes's cure.
The use of aquarium in Pet therapy.
Office hours
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