Fisheries and Aquaculture Journal
Open Access

Abstract

A Low Cost, Stand-Alone, Cold Water Aquatic Animal Research Housing System

Frank J Zadlock IV, Jianjun Feng, Henri Estanbouli, Maria Bender and Ziping Zhang

Currently, there are a few low-cost set-up aquatic research animal housing system constructions out in publication and they are only suitable for warm water animals but not for cold water animals. We have constructed the first novel cold water stand-alone aquatic animal research housing system that can be used to rear small fish species and embryos with temperature requirements ranging from below room temperature to -5°C. The advantages of this system are that it is less expensive option compared to commercial vendors and is easy to assembly. Our twenty four tank cold water system can simply be modified to accommodate warm water animal research as well, making this system extremely versatile as compared to others of its kind.