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Survival Rate and Water Quality of Giant Freshwater Prawn Culture
Muhamad Faeez bin Abdul Murad
Supervisor: Dr. Nor Azman Kasan
Bachelor of Applied Science (Fisheries)
School of Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences
Giant freshwater prawn are high in demand in Malaysia and this prawn could be
farmed in ponds or tanks. This study was conducted as to study the survival rate and
water quality of Macrobrachium rosenbergii in ponds. There were five ponds consist
of post larvae prawns in Bukit Keluang, Besut Terengganu were used in this project.
All of the ponds cultured in conventional system same as another giant freshwater
prawn culture. Water quality of the ponds were sampled every two weeks where the
parameters that have been checked were temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, salinity,
total dissolved solid, ammonia, nitrite and phosphate. According to the study that have
been held, temperature, dissolved oxygen, ammonia, nitrite and phosphate shown no
significant in their parameters. Then, TDS, salinity and pH parameters shown
significant different between the ponds.
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