Dietary effects of two commercial feed additives on growth performance and body composition of African catfish Clarias gariepinus fingerlings

Dada, Adekunle Ayokanmi

doi:10.5897/ajfs2013.1029

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“…From a proximate composition point of view, feed additives increased the level of protein in O. niloticus. The body composition values obtained in this study were similar to those reported by [8,18] using commercial feed additives. Survival of O. niloticus can be improved by feed additives supplementation.…”

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Improvement of Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus Linnaeus, 1758) Growth Performance Fed Three Commercial Feed Additives in Diets

Dada¹

2015

J Aquac Res Development

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An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of three commercial feed additives on growth, nutrient utilization, body composition and haematological profile of Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus fingerlings (average initial weight of 7.18-7.35 g). Three commercial feed additives Aqua booster ® (Fish Vet, Inc. product, Ohio Dayton.), Aqua superliv® (Ayurvet Limited product, India) and Aqua pro ® (Smart Microbial, Inc., USA) were added to the basal diet at 0.5 g /100 g of feed additive respectively and fed to the fish for 56 days at 5% body weight. Fish fed on diets with commercial feed additives showed significantly improved growth performance, feed utilization and body composition compared to fish fed on the control diet. The best growth was observed in the group fed dietary Aqua superliv ® and the protein efficiency ratio was significantly highest in groups fed dietary Aqua booster ® while specific growth rate was significantly highest in groups fed dietary Aqua superliv ® . The highest protein content (70.87%) was obtained in the fish fed dietary Aqua pro® while the moisture content did not differ among treatments. Ash and lipid contents were significantly affected by feed additives. The results revealed that using Aqua superliv ® at the level of 0.5 g/100 g feed was the best in terms of weight gain (8.85 ± 0.92 g) and feed utilization (FCR=0.26).

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“…Recently, some studies show the positive effects of dietary medicinal plants/herbs and feed additives on growth and feed utilization in fish and crayfish [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8].…”

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Improvement of Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus Linnaeus, 1758) Growth Performance Fed Three Commercial Feed Additives in Diets

Dada¹

2015

J Aquac Res Development

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“…Work developed in other research corroborates what was obtained in this research, as these authors obtained higher growth rates in the diets that showed the highest protein content (Ogunji and Wirth, 2001;Dada et al, 2013;Adebola et al, 2015;Méndez et al, 2018). Something similar happened for the length and weight gain.…”

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“…The African catfish, a major species for human consumption in many African countries, exhibits high growth performances and important capacities to grow on various rearing conditions. In general, water quality parameters of temperature (27.05°C), dissolved oxygen (5.64 mg.L -1 ), pH (8.04) and total ammonium (0.06) were maintained as recommended for this species (Dada and Olugbemi, 2013;Admassu et al, 2015), and diets were formulas with ingredients, similar to those used in other research (Sogbesan et al, 2006;Adebola et al, 2015).…”

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Effect of duckweed meal dietary inclusion on growth performance and survival of African catfish fingerlings

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Currently, the use of unconventional food sources in the inclusion of fish diets is cause of great interest. The growth performance of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) was evaluated, with the inclusion of duckweed meal (Lemna perpusilla) in four levels (0, 6, 12 and 18 %) in the diet. African catfish with an average weight of 1.27 ± 0.03 g, were distributed in a completely randomized design, with 16 experimental cages (four replicates/treatment). The fingerlings were fed for 48 days of experimentation. An analysis of variance and a Duncan´s test were performed. No significant differences were found (p< 0.05) for the first two levels evaluated, but with the rest there were differences, as the percentage of inclusion of the duckweed meal in the ration increased. Final weight was decreasing, as well as absolute growth rate, increase in daily weight, feed conversion ratio and food efficiency. Survival throughout the experiment was between 72 y 65 % in all treatments. The inclusion of duckweed meal in the diet did not affect the parameters of water quality. It was concluded that the L. perpusillase meal can be included up to 12 % in diets for African catfish fingerlings, without affecting the growth performance.

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“…Globally, there is a great decline in aquaculture production, due to fish feed manufacturers substituting vital feed ingredients with alternative feed stuffs that cannot achieve fish nutritional requirements. One of the critical challenges faced by aquaculture is the high cost of fish feeds and more than 50% of the total cost of production is intensified in culture system (Ali et al, 2004 aquaculture (Dada and Olugbemi, 2013).…”

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Nutrient utilization and growth of Clarias gariepinus fed four different commercial feeds

Oluyinka¹,

Ajani²,

Richards³

2015

Int. J. Fish. Aquac.

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Several studies had been conducted on the nutritional requirements of African catfish, Clarias gariepinus. Nevertheless, currently there is a gap about the gross composition of feed ingredients required for formulation of commercial feeds. The aims of this feeding trial were to investigate whether fish fed four different commercial feeds have a significant growth rate and nutrient utilization. A total of 120 fish samples were stocked for a triplicate feeding trial (10 fish for each replication) in 4 separated tanks with 4 different feeds: Euro, Melick, Coppens and Durante (T1), (T2), (T3) and (T4) respectively. During all the trial, the water quality and growth parameters were determined according to standard methods and no significant differences were found among the water quality parameters determined. The mean weight gain (MWG) and specific growth rate of T3 were significantly higher than those of other treatments. Statistics showed that protein efficiency ratio (PER) of T3 was significantly higher than other treatments. Contrary to the above trend, the feed conversion ratio (FCR) of T2 was significantly higher than other treatments. According to the results of this study, fish fed with Coppens feed showed a significant growth rate and nutrient utilization.

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Dietary effects of two commercial feed additives on growth performance and body composition of African catfish Clarias gariepinus fingerlings

Cited by 9 publications

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Improvement of Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus Linnaeus, 1758) Growth Performance Fed Three Commercial Feed Additives in Diets

Improvement of Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus Linnaeus, 1758) Growth Performance Fed Three Commercial Feed Additives in Diets

Effect of duckweed meal dietary inclusion on growth performance and survival of African catfish fingerlings

Nutrient utilization and growth of Clarias gariepinus fed four different commercial feeds

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