Effect of different feeds on growth, survival and production of freshwater mud eel, Monopterus cuchia (Hamilton)
2011
Narejo, N T | Rahmatullah, S M | Rashid, M Mamnur
An experiment was conducted to study the effect of different feeds on growth,survival and production of freshwater mud eel, Monopterus cuchia reared incemented cisterns (1.25m2 each) over a period of twelve months from July 2000to June 2001. Three different feeds namely F 1(live small fish), F 2 (dead smallfish) and F 3 (pellet feed, 30% protein) were applied to treatment I, II and IIIrespectively. Each cistern was stocked with ten fish having mean initial bodyweight of 30.5 ± 4.25 g, each treatment was replicated thrice. Highest weightgain of 71.20 ± 3.78 g was obtained in treatment II (p<0.05), followed by treatmentI (46.46 ± 2.30 g) and lowest 26.10± 2.40 g in treatment III. Survival 76.66± 4.76%, specific growth rate 0.3297 ± 0.01 and production 0.624 ± 0.056 Kg/ m2/year were also highest in treatment II. Weight gain was observed throughoutthe study period from February to November. However, slight weight loss(estivation) was observed during winter from December to January. Water qualityparameters like temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH and alkalinity were optimum.On the basis of better growth, survival rate and production, it is suggestedthat dead small fish are suitable for the culture of M. cuchia in cementedcisterns
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