Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
The Progressive Fish-Culturist
Volume
38
Issue
4
Publisher
American Fisheries Society
Publication Date
1976
Keywords
apparatus, diel temperature regimes, aquatic animals
First Page
198
Last Page
199
Abstract
In studies of the effects of elevated temperature on aquatic organisms, little emphasis has been placed on modeling the fluctuating temperatures to which organisms are exposed in nature. To some extent this may be related to problems of design and maintenance of apparatus for fluctuating temperature control. The complexity of apparatus used to provide cycled temperatures has ranged from manually controlled valves for introducing water of different temperatures into aquariums (Kelso 1972), to a complex and expensive feedback system, regulated by rotating cams, that controls the temperature of influent water (Honeywell Cam Programmer Thermometers, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania). To facilitate studies of the effects of temperature fluctuation on the growth of fishes, we constructed an apparatus that was easy to use and of moderate cost.
Recommended Citation
Wurtsbaugh, W. and G. Davis. 1976. An apparatus to provide diel temperature regimes for aquatic animals. Prog. Fish Cult. 38: 198-199.
Comments
Originally published by the American Fisheries Society.
Note: This article appears in The Progressive Fish-Culturist and has been posted here with permission from the publisher.