The investigation of survival rate, filtration rate and intake in Daphnia magna by contact with Fenitrotione

Fenitrotione is one of the popular organophosphorus insecticides that is using in gardens and farms، which in this research the effects on mortality rate، filtration rate and intake in Daphnia magna، as an important zooplankton in aquatic ecosystems، was investigated. This organism has high feeding value for all fresh water fingerlings especially for marketing fish. Also the culturing of D. magna is one of the necessary purposes in fertilizing of rearing fish ponds. In this study، D. magna was used as indicator organism in ecotoxicological test. This study was done in static method for 24h، a design of 5 treatments (0. 005، 0. 01، 0. 02، 0. 04 and 0. 1) was arranged with three replicates. All water physico-chemical parameters such as temperature، pH، dissolved oxygen، hardness and electrical conduction were controlled. Chrorella volglaris (10 mg/l) was used to detect filtration rate and intake by D. magna and observed that with increasing Fenitrotione concentration، filtration rate and intake were decreased. According to the present research، Ec10 (Effective Concentration 10)، Ec50 (Effective Concentration 50) and Ec90 (Effective Concentration 90) were 0. 004 mg/l، 0. 011 mg/l and 0. 028 mg/l، respectively. Also maximum allowable concentration (MAC)، low observe effect concentration (LOEC) and none observe effect concentration (NOEC) were 0. 0011 mg/l، 0. 005 mg/l and 0. 00011 mg/l، respectively. It means that this insecticide is high toxic for D. magna. Hence we can conclude that Fenitrotione is very toxic for D. magna and the entered amount was more than EC10 in fresh water ecosystems، this phenomenon.