Original Articles

THE USE OF BENZOCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE AS FISH TRANQUILLIZER AND ANAESTHETIC IN SALINE WATERS

Published in: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa
Volume 5 , issue 2 , 1979 , pages: 94–96

DOI: 10.1080/03779688.1979.9633192

Author(s): W.T. Barham Department of Zoology, South Africa , K.M. Caiger Department of Zoology, South Africa , J. , G.J. Visser Department of Zoology, South Africa

Keywords: Benzocaine hydrochloride , fish tranquillizer , fish anaesthetic , anaesthesia , anaesthesia and saline water , Liza macrolepis , Sarotherodon mreeambicus

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Abstract

The anaesthetic effects of various concentrations of benzocaine hydrochloride were tested on Liza macrolepis and Sarotherodor mossambicus in sea water and diluted sea water, respectively. Induction time for anaesthesia was negatively correlated with increasing anaesthetic concentrations in L. macrolepis.

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