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. 2021 Sep 6;29(1):296–303. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.08.098

Table 3.

Shown the average values and ranged of water quality parameters measured during 105 days trial for the four experimental ponds of this study.

Water Parameters Mean ± S.D Range WHO/FAO limits References
Temperature (°C) 22.78 ± 0.05 22.7–22.8 20 to 36 °C (FAO, 2012)
Dissolved Oxygen (DO) mg/L 5.66 ± 2.83 5.66–5.7 3 to 5 mg/L (El-Sayed, 2006)
Salinity (g/L) 0.79 ± 0.11 0.68–0.9 0.5 to 2.5 g/L (Yanbo et al., 2006)
pH 7.70 ± 0.12 7.6–7.8 5.5 to 9.5 (Rebouças et al., 2016)
Electric Conductivity (EC) µS/cm 2354.5 ± 65.03 2307.6–2445.5 100 to 2000 μS/cm (Stone et al., 2013).
Total Dissolve Solids
(TDS) mg/L
1353.8 ± 186.37 1077.1–1464.8 <400 ppm (Boyd et al., 2016)
Nitrates
mg/L
0.20 ± 0.01 0.19–0.21 0.2 to 219 mg/l (Boyd et al., 2007)
Alkalinity
mg/L
379.0 ± 28.07 338.4–401.6 20 mg/l (Boyd et al., 2016).