TY - JOUR
T1 - Construction of an Affordable Open-Design Recirculating Zebrafish Housing System
AU - Teoh, Seong Lin
AU - Sapri, Shaiful Ridzwan Bin
AU - Yusof, Mohd Rafizul Bin Mohd
AU - Yahaya, Mohamad Fairuz
AU - Das, Srijit
N1 - Funding Information:
supported by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Research grant number: GGPM-2017-082). The authors thank Harizal Bin Nor Zakariar and Mohamad Faizul Bin Mohamad, Department of Anatomy, UKM for their technical assistance.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/9
Y1 - 2020/9
N2 - Recently, the zebrafish has gained in popularity as a vertebrate animal model for biomedical research. Commercial zebrafish housing systems are available and are designed to maximize stocking density of fish for a given space, but these systems are expensive and purchasing them may not be feasible for emerging laboratories with limited funding. In this article, we describe the construction of a simple and affordable recirculating zebrafish housing system. This system can be constructed in 3 working days, with materials readily available in hardware stores. The cost for construction of the system was only 3,000 MYR (750 USD). The system consists of a water reservoir, a supply line that delivers water to the shelves holding the zebrafish tanks, and a drainage line that receives water from both the supply line and the shelves containing the fish tanks and returns this water to the reservoir. This system also has a 3-stage filtration process to ensure that clean water is delivered to the zebrafish tank. The system can house up to 360 zebrafish. This low-cost housing system may make research using zebrafish feasible some laboratories.
AB - Recently, the zebrafish has gained in popularity as a vertebrate animal model for biomedical research. Commercial zebrafish housing systems are available and are designed to maximize stocking density of fish for a given space, but these systems are expensive and purchasing them may not be feasible for emerging laboratories with limited funding. In this article, we describe the construction of a simple and affordable recirculating zebrafish housing system. This system can be constructed in 3 working days, with materials readily available in hardware stores. The cost for construction of the system was only 3,000 MYR (750 USD). The system consists of a water reservoir, a supply line that delivers water to the shelves holding the zebrafish tanks, and a drainage line that receives water from both the supply line and the shelves containing the fish tanks and returns this water to the reservoir. This system also has a 3-stage filtration process to ensure that clean water is delivered to the zebrafish tank. The system can house up to 360 zebrafish. This low-cost housing system may make research using zebrafish feasible some laboratories.
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U2 - 10.30802/AALAS-JAALAS-19-000167
DO - 10.30802/AALAS-JAALAS-19-000167
M3 - Article
C2 - 32600503
AN - SCOPUS:85090613605
SN - 1559-6109
VL - 59
SP - 512
EP - 518
JO - Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science
JF - Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science
IS - 5
ER -