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A respirometer for aquatic animals standardized against the Scholander respirometer

W. J. van Aardt, H. S. Steyn
Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie | Vol 3, No 4 | a1091 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/satnt.v3i4.1091 | © 1984 W. J. van Aardt, H. S. Steyn | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 20 March 1984 | Published: 20 March 1984

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W. J. van Aardt,, South Africa
H. S. Steyn,, South Africa

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Abstract

A reliable but slow functioning respirometer was compared with a newly designed Clark-electrode respirometer. The material used during the measurements was Labeo capensis, a fresh-water mudfish. The results were statistically analysed. It was found that the Clark-electrode respirometer gave, on average, about 2% higher readings compared with the manometric respirometer developed by Scholander.

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