Publication Date:
2021-07-06
Description:
The amphipods are major food items for many commercial fishes, and they are used as protein food for agricultural animals. In the present paper are presented the results of four-year observations on the feeding of Gammarus balcanicus in nature and in an aquarium. Among the studied aspects were the dependence of daily food ration on sex and physiological state (with and without eggs) and feeding on different kinds of plant food. The study concludes that Gammarus balcanicus willingly feed on soft half-decayed plant residues; into their ration also enters food of animal origin. In contrast to other amphipods, G. balcanicus eats representatives of its own species very rarely, and only dead or immobile ones.
Description:
Translated from Russian into English
Keywords:
Biology
;
Ecology
;
Limnology
;
Freshwater crustaceans
;
Feeding
;
Feeding behaviour
;
Feeding experiments
;
Food composition
;
Experimental research
;
Gammarus balcanicus
Repository Name:
AquaDocs
Type:
monograph
Format:
application/pdf
Format:
application/pdf
