Suitability Assessment of Two Different Culture Systems for the Rearing of Clarias gariepinus Fingerlings

This paper presents an experiment in which two different fish culture system types were evaluated for the short-term commercial of fingerlings Clarias gariepinus maintained at half recommended stocking rate; 82.5/m3 2 m3 water volume indoor blue fiber-glass tanks (IFT) and outdoor black plastic (OPT). The research objectives to assess suitability viability tanks. Initial mean body weight graded C. IFT OPT 11.32±2.25 g 10.92±2.44 (mean±standard deviation) respectively. study lasted eight weeks with attaining post-juvenile sizes 174.95±74.30 178.84±52.04 respectively not significantly p > 0.05. Survival termination was 81.21±0.0% 81.21±2.5% As attained larger 100 above between 6 8, skin lesions frayed fins observed comparatively more reared than fish. It may be concluded that systems are vastly terms resultant survival growth performance African catfish, however, duration halved when maintaining reported rate order prevent distress as a fallout aggression they increase size.