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Basic Methods for the Study of Reproductive Ecology of Fish in Aquaria
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2017
A series of basic methods to enable the study of the reproductive ecology of fish kept in aquaria are described. These are useful protocols for collecting fish using SCUBA, transporting live fish, and observing the reproductive behavior of wild-caught fish kept in aquaria.
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Design and Construction of an Urban Runoff Research Facility
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2014
This paper describes the design, construction, and function of a 1,000 m2 facility containing 24 individual 33.6 m2 field plots equipped for measuring total runoff volumes with time and collection of runoff subsamples at selected intervals for quantification of chemical constituents in the runoff water from simulated home lawns.
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Osmoregulation in Fishes
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2019
When cells are placed in a hypotonic (low-salt) fluid, they can swell and burst. Meanwhile, cells in a hypertonic solution—with a higher salt concentration—can shrivel and die. How do fish cells avoid these gruesome fates in hypotonic freshwater or hypertonic seawater environments? Fish employ osmoregulatory strategies to balance bodily levels of water and dissolved ions (i.e., solutes), such as sodium and chloride. Imagine two solutions separated by a membrane that is permeable to water.
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Swimming Performance Assessment in Fishes
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2011
The lives of the majority of fish are predicated on swimming. This protocol describes techniques for capturing a range of swimming modes available to individual and schooling fish, and includes metrics associated with swimming physiology and behaviour.
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Necropsy-based Wild Fish Health Assessment
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2018
The health of wild fishes can be used as an indicator of aquatic ecosystem health. Necropsy-based fish health assessments provide documentation of visible lesions or abnormalities, data used to calculate condition indices as well as the opportunity to collect tissues for microscopic evaluation, gene expression and other more in-depth analyses.
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Stable water conditions depend on tracking temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, and nitrogen waste. Filtration, biological treatment, water exchange, and routine monitoring work together to keep these variables within suitable ranges. Controlling them reduces avoidable environmental variation and helps maintain fish health, which is especially important when experiments examine development, behavior, genetics, disease, or responses to environmental change.
Biological treatment works with filtration, water exchange, and monitoring to help control nitrogen waste and other water-quality conditions. Its value comes from supporting a coordinated system rather than replacing measurements or maintenance. Keeping these components integrated gives staff a basis for detecting changes in the aquatic environment and maintaining conditions suitable for healthy animals and consistent research.
Routine monitoring and records turn facility conditions into information that can be reviewed over time. This documentation helps identify changes in temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, or nitrogen waste and supports more reproducible animal care. In turn, researchers can better distinguish biological findings from variation caused by unstable housing conditions, strengthening studies that depend on consistent environments.
A complete program combines feeding, breeding support, health surveillance, sanitation, quarantine, and biosecurity with water-system care. These activities address both the animals and the equipment that houses them. Coordinating them supports welfare during routine husbandry while also preserving the stable conditions required for teaching, daily operations, and long-term biological research.
Sanitation, quarantine, and biosecurity complement water-quality control by addressing health protection within the facility. Alongside health surveillance, they help organize how animal care and facility practices are managed, rather than relying on water monitoring alone. This broader approach is relevant when facilities support research involving disease, development, behavior, genetics, or environmental responses.
Fish Facility Management is particularly relevant to studies of development, behavior, genetics, disease, and environmental responses. Each area can be affected by animal health and housing conditions, so controlled systems and consistent husbandry provide a dependable research setting. The same management framework also supports teaching, making facility practices useful beyond a single experimental project.