Induced spawning of siban fish using Cyclocheilichthys apogon

The objective of the present study was to examine the effect of Background Ovaprim dosage on the latency period, relative number of ovulated eggs, fertilization, hatching, and survival rates of the siban fish, Cyclocheilichthys . apogon : Three dosages of Ovaprim were tested in this study, namely 0.3 ml Methods kg-1 of broodfish body weight, 0.5 ml kg-1 body weight, and 0.7 ml kg-1 body weight, plus control (without Ovaprim). : The results showed that the best latency period, relative number of Results ovulated eggs, fertilization, hatching, and survival rates were obtained at a dosage of 0.7 ml kg body weight. : The best dosage of Ovaprim for siban fish from the dosages Conclusions tested, was determined to be 0.7 ml kg-1 body weight. Nuraini Nuraini ( ) Corresponding author: [email protected] : Conceptualization, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Funding Acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project Author roles: Nuraini N Administration, Writing – Original Draft Preparation; : Formal Analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization; Tanjung A : Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software; : Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Warningsih T Muchlisin ZA Visualization, Writing – Review & Editing Competing interests: No competing interests were disclosed. Nuraini N, Tanjung A, Warningsih T and Muchlisin ZA. How to cite this article: Induced spawning of siban fish Cyclocheilichthys apogon 2017, :1855 (doi: ) using Ovaprim [version 1; referees: 1 approved] F1000Research 6 10.12688/f1000research.12885.1 © 2017 Nuraini N . This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the , which Copyright: et al Creative Commons Attribution Licence permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Data associated with the article are available under the terms of the (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication). Creative Commons Zero "No rights reserved" data waiver This study was supported by Universitas Riau through thr PUPT scheme 2016, Grant number: 023/UN.5.1.3/PP/2016. Grant information: The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. 18 Oct 2017, :1855 (doi: ) First published: 6 10.12688/f1000research.12885.1 1 2 3