Filtering rate and food uptake were measured on the Californian brine shrimp,
Artemia salina, in relation to its growth by the use of
Chlamydomonas as food.
The following equations are developed on the basis of FLEMING's formula (1) in order to estimate the filtering rate and the food uptake from cell counts of growing food organisms.
F=
V/t•(ln
Ct'-ln
Ct) (2)
Gt=
V•(
Ct-
C0)•log
Ct'-log
Ct/log
Ct-log
C0 (5)
F, volume filtered per animal per day;
Ct, food density of the experimental lot at time
t (day);
Ct', food density of the blank lot at time
t;
V, volume of water per animal;
Gt, food uptake per animal up to time
t after the renewal of the experimental medium.
The experimental conditions are summarized in Tables 1&2 and in the foot note of Figs. 1-4.
The results obtained are as follows:
1) High concentrations of
Chlamydomonas interfered with the grazing and growth of
Artemia (Figs. 1-4). Straight regression lines were empirically applied to the relation between log
F and log
BL for each algal density (Figs. 1- _??_ 4-A).
2) The effect of high salinity was observed neither on the grazing nor on the growth of the brine shrimp (Figs. 1 & 2).
3) The difference in the growth rate of
Chlamydomonas employed had no influence on the grazing and growth of the brine shrimp (Fig. 3).
4) The inhibitory effect was not exhibited in the surrounding medium of
Chlamydomonas in view of practical cultivation (Fig. 4).
The results summarized above show a similarity to those reported by LOOSANOFF and ENGLE
12) and by RYTHER
17), but there are some differences between the present and previous ones: i) the extracellular inhibitor was not observed in the present experiments, and ii)
Artemia was not observed to cease grazing after the ingestion of a certain number of senescent algal cells as was observed with
Daphnia magna. The presence of heavy concentration of
Chlamydomonas seems to interfere with grazing and growth of
Artemia.
A method of approaching to the maintenance ration was discussed: since the food uptake fell to the level of maintenance ration occasionally (but not known exactly when) (Figs. 1-, 2-B)
A, and since the maintenance ration is thought to be proportional to the square of the body length (within a certain range)
B as was observed in the case of O
2 uptake (refs. 1), 7)), the maintenance ration may be roughly estimated by the straight lines with slope 2
B, which lines are tangential
A to the lower parts of the areas where the log-log plot of daily ration against body length distributes. The approaching indicates the maintenance ration might vary with the algal density (Fig. 6).
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