Publication Date:
2021-07-15
Description:
The growth enhancement potential of Mucuna pruriens utilis on the Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.), was investigated in eight weeks feeding trials in concrete tanks at the African Regional Aquaculture Centre, Aluu. Three isonitrogenous diets were fed to three sets of fingerlings of the fish with full fat soya bean diet(D1) serving as the Control. The initial average fish weight was 1.45 ~c 0.12 and the final average fish weight was 5.67 ~c 1.46. Crude protein, ash and nitrogen free extract of the carcasses were significantly different (P〉0.05) from the control specimens. The average weight gains were 3.85g, 3.54g and 3.42g for fish fed 'full fat' Soya bean based diet(Control), fermented Mucuna seed diet(D2) and unfermented Mucuna seed diets (D3) respectively. Average apparent food consumed was in the order D2 〉D1 〉 D3. Fish fed fermented Mucuna seed diet (D2) had the highest food conversion ratio of 1.51 followed by fish fed with the control diet (D1) 1.22 and fish fed unfermented Mucuna seed diets (D3) 1.19. Unfermented Mucuna seed diet had the highest food conversion efficiency (0.84) followed by full fat Soya bean based diet(Control) 0.82 and the least was the fermented Mucuna seed diet (0.66). The results of this study indicate that unfermented Mucuna diet can conveniently replace Soya bean based diet without significantly affecting growth.
Keywords:
Aquaculture
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Ecology
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Oreochromis niloticus
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Nigeria
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Port Harcourt
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Feeding potentials
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Processing
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Concrete tanks
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Weight gained
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freshwater environment
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Freshwater fish
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Growth
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Feeding experiments
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Food conversion
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Fish culture
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Fingerlings
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Culture tanks
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Diets
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Body weight
Repository Name:
AquaDocs
Type:
conference_item
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Format:
application/pdf
Format:
application/pdf
Format:
343-345
