Vol. 12, Issue 6 (2023)

Author(s):
Umesh Kumar, Dr. SK Sharma, Dr. BK Sharma, Dr. ML Ojha and Sushil Matoria

Abstract:
The greatest economic increase has been seen in the world's prawn output. India is one of the biggest exporters of prawns due to substantial developments in brackish water aquaculture. Shrimp farming has been growing dramatically in inland saltwater. The current study was conducted at three designated aquaculture shrimp farms in the locations of Partappura (Sri Ganganagar), Taranagar (Churu) in Rajasthan and Shamkhera (Muktsar Shahib) in Punjab. Two ponds were randomly chosen from each of the locations. From March to July 2022, all of these chosen shrimp farm locations were visited once every fifteen days to gather water samples. Among the water quality parameters, Air temperature was recorded between 30.6°-46.2 °C, Water temperature 24.4°-33.1 °C, Transparency 40.1-45.2 cm, pH 7.8-8.6, Salinity 16.7-25.7 ppt, Electrical conductivity 8.99-9.87 mS/cm, Total dissolved solids 3965-6978 mg/l, Dissolved oxygen 5.87-6.34 mg/l, Ammonia 0.21-1.21 mg/l, Nitrate 0.07-2.53 mg/l, Sodium 1169-1793 mg/l, Potassium 71.09-126.3 mg/l, Magnesium 817-1136 mg/l and Ortho-phosphate 0.19-0.67 mg/l. Collected water parameters were used to established a combined correlation between all the recorded parameters.