Generally, cultured fish are suitable in media with a pH of around 7, like mountainous river and borehole water. However, peat water is known low pH. It not for culture, especially fingerlings. This study was conducted to examine the survival African catfish fingerling (Clarias gariepinus) mixture different pHs. Survival test as subject applied bioassay method, LC50-96 hours. Peat agent arrange...

Hatchery propagation techniques, such as pellet-rearing, can result in altered feeding behaviour. Walleye Sander vitreus (Mitchill) is a commonly propagated sportfish, yet little known regarding its ability to switch live prey post-stocking. The objectives were evaluate temporal changes diet composition and condition well the relationship between total length presence of different consumed by s...

Introduction One of the major expenses in any fish culture operation is the cost of feeds for the fish, and the profitability of many operations is frequently tied to the cost of feed. Hatchery production of fish larvae most often requires the expensive production of live food (phytoplankton and zooplankton), because artificial diets are either not available, or are grossly inadequate. Artifici...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of dietary supplementation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae on growth performance, feed utilization and body biochemical composition of Oreochromis niloticus fingerlings. Four diets containing supplementation at levels of 0, 0.5, 1 and 2 g kg−1 were fed to fingerlings of Nile tilapia (5.01±0.21 g) in four replicate tanks twice ...

In the current study, the effect of dietary supplementation of poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) on growth performance, digestive enzymes activity, body composition, non-specific immune response and diseases resistance of rainbow trout fingerlings were investigated. Five hundred and fifty-two healthy fingerlings (8.2±1.0 g) were randomly distributed in 12 tanks (150 L) at a density of 46 fish/ tank ...

Feeding metabolism in an Indian major carp, Catla catla fingerlings of 10.8+0.56g was investigated in a flow-through water recirculating system. The metabolic energy loss in resting metabolism and feeding metabolism were determined by the indirect method of oxygen consumption followed by multiplication by suitable oxycalorific coefficient. This was done in four metabolic chambers of a respirome...

A 84 day experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of sodium diformate NDF ® as commercial feed additives on growth performance and feed utilization of hybrid tilapia (♀ O. niloticus X ♂ O. aureus) fingerlings. Four treatments were applied; three levels of NDF ® (1 g kg -1 , 3 g kg -1 and 5 g kg -1 ) in addition to the control. The experimental diets containing (320 g kg -1 crude protein ...

Chromium has been recognized as a new and important micro-nutrient, essential for both human and animal nutrition. This study was conducted to evaluate the appropriateness and/or the use of safety level of dietary chromium picolinate (Cr-Pic), and its effects on the physiological responses, the histometric characteristics, and the chemical analysis of dorsal muscles of mono-sex Nile tilapia, Or...

Cell culture from ovarian tissue of healthy female fingerlings Oreochromis niloticus was established with average weight of 20 to 30 gm/female. Three culture media were screened and tested: Leibowitz L-15), Minimum essential medium (MEM) and RPMI 1640 medium. Cells were maintained at 16, 27 or 30C for screening the favorable optimally incubation temperature. Culture medium was refreshed every 5...

The pathogenicity of a Streptococcus ictaluri isolate in channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus at the fry (0.5 g), fingerling (15 g), and juvenile (55 g) stages was determined by experimental bath immersion and injection experiments. Channel catfish were exposed in 1-L immersion baths containing 10(8), 10(9), 10(10), 10(11) or 10(12) colony-forming units (cfu) of S. ictaluri. Fish were also injec...