Sistema intensivo de incubação e manejo de cria de Acará Disco, Symphysodon spp.

Abstract

The stages of incubation during the phases of egg and larva are taken as the of most difficult phases in the production of several aquatic organisms. The production of the disco fish, Symphysodon spp, by natural method, with eggs and larvae together with their parents, present zootechnical difficulties that influence the productivity negatively. The intensive raising, in the parent isolated system, under broad control process including water quality, feeding and sanitary prophylaxis was assessed in accordance with the larval survival up to the fifteenth day after larvae were born. Seven pairs laid eggs forty one times during the period of 1.182 days, adding up a total of 12.906 eggs, 10.379 of them were born (80,42%). 8.543 of the born larvae (82,31%) survived until the fifteenth day of life. The average fecundity per spawning was 314,8 eggs with Variation coefficient (CV) = 48%, the average number of births per spawning was 253,1 larvae with CV=58% and the average number of living larvae fifteen days after birth was 208,4 with CV=65%. The average interval between spawnings in the same reproduction station was 12,14 days with CV=76% and medium deviation (DM) = 6,6 days. The average interval between spawnings in the sequence reproduction station was 193 days with CV=31% and DM = 45 days. The results concerning the reproductive biology can be applied in the planning and operational. The efficiency, in accordance larval survival, of incubation system was considerate satisfactory. The economical and larval growth rate analysis of the system utilized, with traditional method comparison, should rout one large evaluation of the efficacy of incubation system.