Cultivation of Algae in Vegetable and Fruit Canning Industrial Wastewater Treatment Ef Uent For Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus) Feed Supplement
Cultivation of Algae in Vegetable and Fruit Canning Industrial Wastewater Treatment Ef Uent For Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus) Feed Supplement
Cultivation of Algae in Vegetable and Fruit Canning Industrial Wastewater Treatment Ef Uent For Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus) Feed Supplement
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Abstract
This work was conducted to study the possibility of cultivating algae for use as fish feed using vegetable and fruit canning
industry wastewater treatment effluent. The results showed that Chlorella vulgaris showed successful growth in 10% initial
stock solution, 20 cm water depth and for 12 days of cultivation. The algae attained a cell density of 13.72 × 105 cells/mL,
biomass dry weight of 255 mg/L and protein content of 45.6%. Dried algae were used as a feed additive for tilapia
(Oreochromis niloticus L.) cultivated in a vegetable and fruit canning industry oxidation pond. After 3 months of cultivation,
fish fed 3% dried algae had a higher (P<0.05) fish survival rate and percentage weight gain than the fish fed only the
commercial feed. © 2015 Friends Science Publishers
To cite this paper: Cheunbarn, T. and S. Cheunbarn, 2015. Cultivation of algae in vegetable and fruit canning industrial wastewater treatment effluent for
tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) feed supplement., Int. J. Agric. Biol., 17: 653‒657
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by cell counting with a hemocytometer, and the optical depending on procedure that has been described by
density was measured at 560 nm (Spectronic Genesys 5 APHA (1998). The four heavy metals, cadmium (Cd),
UV-visible spectrophotometer) every two days. copper (Cu), zinc (Zn) and mercury (Hg) were measured at
The suitable initial algal concentration was cultivated the end of the experiment by ICP-MS (Agilent, Model
in 100 L effluent in a 200 L cement pond for 15 days. The 7500A).
three different depths (20, 30 and 40 cm) with three
replications were evaluated. The cellular concentration was Statistical Analysis
determined every 3 days.
For mass culture, a suitable initial concentration of The differences of fish growth performances when use
algae, depth and retention time based on the previous study algae for fish feed supplement were analyzed. The study
was prepared in a 200 L cement pond with a 100 L working was divided into two treatments with three replications.
volume. The algal biomass was harvested, dried and The comparison and derivation were made between
analysed for the nutrient value according to the AOAC treatment 1 (0% algae) and treatment 2 (3% algae).
method (AOAC, 1984). Independent t-tests by compare means was performed using
SPSS 16.0 for windows. P<0.05 was considered statistically
Feed Supplement for Tilapia significant.
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Table 1: Growth performance of tilapia in an experimental pond using Chlorella vulgaris as feed supplement for three
months
Parameters Treatment 1 (commercial fish pellet+0% algae) Treatment 2 (commercial fish pellet + 3% algae) P-value
Specific growth rate (%/day) 2.16±0.006 2.37±0.152 ns
Survival rate (%) 61.7±9.5 76.3±5.5 *
Feed conversion rate (FCR ) 0.45 ±0.05 0.40 ±0.03 ns
Percentage weight gain (%) 597.6±55.19 740±91.32 *
Mean± standard deviation. *= significant statistical differences (P<0.05), ns= no significant statistical differences
Water Quality Index Week 0 Week 2 Week 4 Week 6 Week 8 Week 10 Week 12 mean ±SD
Temp (ºC) 23.6 23.4 24.5 25.6 24.2 24.6 24.4 24.3±0.7
TS (mg/L) 67 64 79 76 56 65 64 67.3±7.8
pH 7.5 7.2 6.9 7.6 7.5 6.9 7.4 7.3±0.29
DO (mg/L) 5.5 5.2 5.5 6.5 6.5 5.8 5.4 5.8±0.5
COD (mg/L) 68 80 76 65 82 75 79 75.0±6.3
BOD (mg/L) 16 18 19 15 14 19 20 17.3±2.3
NO3-- N (mg/L) 17 19 14 25 16 14 19 17.7±3.8
NH3-N (mg/L) 0.14 0.16 0.23 0.15 0.30 0.24 0.23 0.2±0.06
PO4 3- (mg/L) 0.11 0.32 0.16 0.22 0.30 0.23 0.18 0.22±0.07
Discussion
A suitable initial concentration is considered necessary for
cultivating algae. A huge number of algae are unable to
survive under inappropriate conditions although they are
native ones and adapted to local environment. This research
found that the suitable Chlorella vulgaris initial stock
concentration was found at 10% (OD560 0.8). If the initial
concentration is too low, only a few algae would continue to
grow because of breaking colonies caused by photo-
oxidation (Abeliovich and Shilo, 1972; Benchokroun et al.,
2003; Baroli et al., 2004). This situation occurred at the 2
Fig. 1: Growth (cell densities) of Chlorella vulgaris and 5% initially stock solution.
cultivated at various initial concentrations Also, if the initial concentration is too high, the yield
would not be good because they would obstruct light from
each other, and photosynthesis would be reduced (Gitelson
et al., 1996). This situation appeared at the 20% initially
stock solution, showing rapid growth only at the beginning
but after 10 days of the experiment the growth slowly
declined. Sedimentation also occurred, as the green colour
of algal biomass was observed at the bottom of the
container.
It was found that algae cultivated at 20 cm depth
showed the best growth rate. During day 0‒3, the algal
growth was slow and increased only slightly because the
algae were adapting to the new environment and had not yet
started to increase in numbers. After the initial adaptation,
Fig. 2: Growth (OD) of Chlorella vulgaris cultivated at the algae started to grow quickly during days 3‒12, then
various initial concentrations grew slowly again until they reach a stationary phase (Fig. 3
and 4). However, the best time point for harvesting was on
Water Quality During Fish Cultivation day 12 when the algae were completely mature, only a few
dead cells were found together with a lower level of
The water quality results taken during the 3 months of
chlorellin. Chlorella vulgaris cultures usually release
rearing tilapia in the oxidation pond are shown in Table 2.
chlorellin (Pratt et al., 1945), a substance similar to a fatty
Four heavy metals were measured. The results showed that
only zinc was measured at a very low level of 0.01 mg/L, acid and a hydrocarbon (Spoehr and Milner, 1949) having
and the others were not found. allelopathic activity, a property that allows it to inhibit the
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the dry cell weight of the algae was 0.541 g/L after
cultivation in BBM medium, the dry weight was 0.629 g/L
(Toyub et al., 2007), and in the Trebon system, the production
rate for Chlorella was 10 g/L (Doucha et al., 2005).
Normally, when algae are cultivated in wastewater,
they are widely accepted as a feed supplement, especially for
fish feed. However, the present study found that FCR in the
both treatments were very low (Table 1), indicating that they
took less feed to produce 1 kg of fish. Both fish diet formulas
were not the only kind of feed for the fish, because the fish
were in the oxidation pond where inorganic substrates were
still high, so plankton could grow. The plankton became a
natural food for the fish, so it was possible to use less feed to
produce 1 kg of fish. However, the amount of algae as a
Fig. 3: Growth (cell densities) of Chlorella vulgaris protein supplement for fish depends on the type of fish. For
cultivated at various depths example, Paralichthys olivaceus grew best when fed with
2% Chlorella powder (Koo et al., 2001), while Sebastes
schlegeli (Hilgendorf) grew best when fed with 0.5%
Chlorella powder (Bai et al., 2001).
Normally, when algae are widely accepted as a feed
supplement, the supplementation would also increase the
organic substances in the wastewater affecting the quality of
the effluent. However, the analysis of water quality showed
that the amounts of heavy metals were below the standard
for inland aquaculture (MNRE, 2007) and the standard for
industrial water effluents (MOSTE, 1996).
Conclusion
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