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Tabea O C Moll1, Steven A Farber1
1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
Biorxiv : the Preprint Server for Biology
|December 4, 2023
Abstract:
Even though many experimental approaches benefit from tracking individual larval animals, there is yet to be a commercial zebrafish rack system designed to accomplish this task. Thus, we invented playpens, an acrylic and screen container, to raise 12 individual zebrafish juveniles per standard 10 L tank on an existing recirculating fish system. During a week-long experiment, fish raised in playpens grow to the same size as conventionally raised juveniles.

