This research was carried out to determine the intraocular pressure values, optimum anesthesia dose and phenotypic characteristics in Oscar fish (Astronotus ocellatus). A total of 11 adult, male were used study. Optimum dose, pre-and post-anesthesia values measurements (total length, fork standard dorsal fin base head body eye diameter, depth, pectoral pelvic bottom anal length) determined refe...

a bacterial septicaemia occurred in 3-female oscars (astronotus ocellatus) of about 2-year old held in 300l freshwater aquaria in south tehran. the external signs of infected fish consisted of lethargy, anaemia, distension (clinical dropsy), exophthalmia and cataract. internally there was a large amount of red-ascitic fluid accumulated in the abdominal cavity with haemorrhages/ hyperaemia of in...

Histopathology provides a rapid method to detect effects of irritants and pathogens in different organs and it can be considered as the indicator for abnormal condition for fish environment. The present study was initiated to record the histopathological lesions of gill and skin associated with external parasites in two common aquarium fish, Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus) and Discus (Symphysodon ...

Although infections caused by megalocytiviruses have been reported from a wide range of finfish species for several decades, molecular characterisation of the viruses involved has been undertaken only on more recent cases. Sequence analysis of the major capsid protein and adenosine triphosphatase genes is reported here from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded material from 2 archival ornamental f...

Oxygen consumption, as an indicator of routine metabolic rate (RoMR), and tissue-specific changes in protein synthesis, as measured by (3)H-labelled phenylalanine incorporation rates, were determined in Astronotus ocellatus to investigate the cellular mechanisms behind hypoxia-induced metabolic depression and recovery. RoMR was significantly depressed, by approximately 50%, when dissolved oxyge...