Background: Under normal circumstances In the life cycle of Spirometra species, cyclops are the first intermediate hosts.
The purpose of this
research is to describe how Cyclops were cultivated in a Tanzanian laboratory
from an adult female egg sack Cyclops fed live Paramecium and a stock of
Cyclops employed in a Spirometra species life cycle experiment.
Paramecium was
first cultured for use as a food source for Cyclops. A sample of water was
taken from a pond on the campus of Sokoine University. A swarm of Paramecium
was created when 100 mL of water and pre-boiled wheat grains were transferred
to a Petri dish and incubated under laboratory conditions for 7 days. In a new
Petri dish containing tap water, 0.3 cc of Paramecium suspension, and 4
pre-boiled wheat grains, an adult female egg sack Cyclops from a natural water
pond in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania was introduced. The mixture was
stored at a temperature of 26-29°C in a laboratory and monitored on a daily
basis.
Eggs laid by a
single Cyclops hatched into nauplius. The average development time from
nauplius I to copepodite I was 1.2 days, copepodite I to adult female Cyclops
was 6.9 days, and copepodite I to adult female Cyclops was 26.3 days. The adult
male was 846.3 metres long and 284.6 metres wide, whereas naupliusI was 120.2
metres long and 80.0 metres wide. 1 to 8 broods were generated by the mature
female (mean 4.3). Cyclops lived for an average of 43.1 days.
Author(S) Details
Nicholas Jairo Kavana
St. Francis University College of Health and Allied Sciences, P.O Box 175, Ifakara, Tanzania.
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