Oxygen consumption and ammonia excretion were investigated during a long term starvation in an abalone
Sulculus diversicolor aquatilis. Abalone used in the present study were 14 specimens ranged from 0.14 to 17.10g in wet weight of soft body (
W, g). They were kept starved in a closed aquarium at 24°C. Oxygen consumption and ammonia excretion rates were measured by individual in a closed bottle with several days interval until death by starvation. Oxygen consumption rate (
R, μl O
2/ind./h) of the abalone increased linearly with an increase in
W and decreased with the period of starvation (
T, days);
R=92.019
W0.914 0.987
T. Ammonia excretion rate (
E, μmol/ind./h) increased linearly with an increase in
W. Until the 17th day from commencement of the experiment E increased with an extention in
T, however, it decreased with extention of
T after the 17th day and they are expressed as
E=0.369
W0.78 T0.413 and
E=2.151
W1.012 T-0.454, respectively. The O/N ratios for abalones just after feeding were relatively high and indicate an apparent dependence upon carbohydrates in the feeding period. After about 2 weeks starvation, the O/N ratios showed relatively low and constant, followed by standard protein energy utilization thereafter.
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