37910 - Techniques for Maintaining the Aquarium

Academic Year 2016/2017

  • Docente: Gianpiero Nieddu
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: AGR/20
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Aquaculture and Fish Production Hygiene (cod. 8834)

Learning outcomes

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Course contents

- Technological devices for the proper maintenance of an ornamental aquarium, with particular reference to filtration systems and lighting.
- The biotope aquarium.
- Examples of reconstruction of a biotope aquarium:

Central American area
South American (Amazon) area
the great lakes of the African Rift Valley.
West African biotope
Southeast Asian biotope
the Australian region
the tropical marine aquarium
the marine aquarium with invertebrates
the Mediterranean marine aquarium
the pond
the paludarium
the dangerous fish in the aquarium.
Outline of the main diseases found in aquariums.

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