Application of Aeration Injection to Increase Dissolved Oxygen of Surface Water in The Floating Net Cage

Abstract

Cirata Reservoir is a place for fish cultivators who mostly cultivate tilapia using floating net cages. However, water quality conditions, especially dissolved oxygen levels, which play an important role in tilapia culture in floating net cages are always uncertain and affect the growth of tilapia. Therefore, artificial aeration is needed that is able to increase dissolved oxygen levels so that it is suitable for tilapia culture by using Aearator Dua Lapis (ADL) engine. This study aims to inject dissolved oxygen into the surface layer of the reservoir by applying the ADL engine with gasoline. ADL operated at 1800, 4500, and 5500 rpm with a torque of 3.5 N/m2 and the DO value is recorded every 10 minutes up to 1440 minutes, the results of DO value were recorded and analyzed by using descriptive statistic and statistically using ANOVA with a single factor showed that the rotation has a very significant effect on the resulting DO value (p<0.01). For ADL operation in floating net cages, 4500 rpm rotation was used at certain depth (0.4 m; 1 m; 1.5 m) and the DO value measured at 4.00 am to 2.00 am (22 hours) in aerated floating net cages and without aerated floating net cages.Aerated floating net cages have a higher DO value, especially at a depth of 0.4 m. ADL as an aerator in floating net cages has a very significant effect (p<0.01) in increasing the DO value in floating net cages at a depth of 40 cm to 1.5 m. This proved that the use of ADL is able to increase the DO value in floating net cages in the first layer with a depth of up to 4 m and ADL also can be used as emergency aeration or supplemental aeration for tilapia culture.