• Journal of Aquaculture
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.59-66
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• 1998

The effectiveness of lidocaine HCI (lidocaine HCI/sodium bicarbonate mixture) was tested as an anaesthetic for Rhynchocypris oxycephalus and R. steindachneri at three different temperatures of $10^{\circ}C.$, $15^{\circ}C.$ and $20^{\circ}C.$. Based on the exposure and recovery time, effective doses of lidocaine HCI were proven to be 300ppm ($20^{\circ}C.$), 400ppm ($15^{\circ}C.$), and 600ppm($10^{\circ}C.$) for R. oxcephaus, and 400ppm ($20^{\circ}C.$), 500ppm ($15^{\circ}C.$), and 600ppm ($10^{\circ}C.$) for R. steindachneri respectively. Anaesthetic dose and temperature-dependent relationship in exposure and recovery time were obseved for these two Rhynchocypris spops. There were size-related increases of exposure time on R. steindachneri in each dose of lidocaine HCI. However, dost-dependent increase of recovery time wea found in only the large size group of Rhynchocypris spp.