Dietary Effect of African wild lettuce leaf meal (Lactuca taraxacifolia) on the Growthperformance and Reproductive Parameters of African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus).

The effects of African wild lettuce leaf meal (Lactuca taraxacifolia) were investigated on the sperm and egg quality C. gariepinus, (mean body weight, 190.29g). Five diets with crude protein 35% formulated different inclusion levels powder. T1 (control) has 0 g WLM, while T2, T3, T4 T5 0.02, 0.03, 0.04 0.05g/100g diets. A total 70 juveniles gariepinus randomly distributed twice into 120 liter tank at stocking density 7 fish per constant water level was maintained in experimental tanks. contained pond (PH ≈ 7, oxygen≈ 4.3 mg/l, temperature≈ 26. 2 0C). fed to satiation a day between 8.00hrs 17hrs for period 84 days. At end feeding trials, sacs excised from samples selected eggs collected analysis. Data volume, motility, weight number subjected one way analysis variance (ANOVA) using Completely Randomized Design (CRD).The result shows that treatment 5, Egg volume higher (73.75g, 55072.27, 723ml, respectively) compared treatments 2, 3, 4, control. control had than 5. Treatment 4 exhibited highest motility (72.00), no significant differences observed among 1, these study found including 0.03g Wild Lettuce Leaf Meal (WLM) catfish resulted best growth performance as well pro fertility agent which could be future prospect producing seeds multiplication centers thereby reducing dependence synthetic drugs.