Climbing Perch Anabas testudineus Feeding in the Darkness: Observation in Infrared Lightстатья
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Аннотация:A comparative study of the nutrition of climbing perch Anabas testudineus (Bloch, 1792)–fed withgranular food with positive buoyancy in the light (~100 lux), in darkness, and under infrared light (780–900 nm) has been performed. It is found that climbing perch can eat equally as well in darkness and under infrared light (37 and 30% of the feeding granules), albeit much worse than in the light (73% of the granules). The fish instantly reacted to the feed and began consuming it in the light, but they captured the first granules under infrared light only on average more than 2 min after the experiment started. This indicates that climbing perch have no visual reaction to food under infrared light.Keywords: climbing perch Anabas testudineus, feeding behavior, infrared light, darkness