37910 - Techniques for Maintaining the Aquarium

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • 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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