Digestibility of Feed Supplemented with Common Pleco Meal and Its Impact on The Growth of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis sp.)

Common pleco is a wild fish whose habitat occupies lot of reservoir areas and public waters in Indonesia. The amount abundant not consumed by humans, great potential to be used as source animal protein feed. purpose this study was evaluate the digestibility common meal artificial feed for nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus.) carried out at Aquaculture Laboratory Hatchery, Faculty Fisheries Marine Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran, while manufacture meal, proximate analysis ingredients test Chemistry Animal Feed, Husbandry, Padjadjaran. design Completely Randomized Design (CRD) consisting 5 (five) treatments 3 (three) replications. treatment given addition flour 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% 20%. parameters observed consisted digestibility, growth rate, water quality. results research on some these indicate that can still up 10%. studied had highest relative with value 0.218%. level reached 85.256%, quality within safe tolerance limits farming. Based study, negative effect survival rate did occur until Thus, has an alternative formulations.