12-Housing and husbandry

Housing and husbandry conditions can have large, unforeseen and undesirable influences upon the best planned scientific studies, whereas animals coping well with their surroundings will deliver the most scientifically valid information in an experiment.
Sufficient attention must be made to the animals’ instincts and needs from birth to death.

General principles
For fish researchers

See also the separate section on welfare of fish, and references to guidance on welfare assessment in the section on zebrafish.

Guidance must be relevant to the individual fish species. Monitoring and recording of water quality is an extremely important issue when working with fish species.

Zebrafish:

General information:

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