Pollution of the water bodies will create physiological
stress on the aquatic fauna. Among various forms of pollution in water bodies,
detergent pollution has an immediate and detrimental effect. The floor cleaners are household chemical cleaning compounds required in wide range for diverse purposes. In some rivers the
concentrations of cleaning products is quite high. The major components of
cleaning products such as Surfactants make adverse effects on the aquatic life
at very low levels of exposure. Effect of floor cleaners on the consumption of
dissolved oxygen by Carassius auratus were determined by using Winkler’s
method. The floor cleaners used were Lizol, dettol and lemon grass oil. This
study demonstrated that dissolved oxygen consumption in Carassius auratus
increases in the presence of floor cleaners.
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