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Laboratory experiments on growth of Penaeid prawns fed with artificial pellets

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Title Laboratory experiments on growth of Penaeid prawns fed with artificial pellets
 
Creator Thomas, M M
Kathirvel, M
George, K V
 
Subject Prawn and Prawn fisheries
Food and Feeding
 
Description Artificial feeds were compounded using wheatflour, tapioca powder, coconut cake, groundnut cake,
flshmeal, prawnmeal and mineral supplement in different proportions, in pellet form, with agar-agar
as binding agent. Feed numbers 1 to 19 were with protein contents ranging from 15.31 % to 30.63 %.
Starch contents varied from 7.31 to 44.32% while fat contents were much less (0.04 to 4.35%). Feeding
experiments of 60 days duration were conducted with postlarvae (TL=5.10 to 5.69 mm) and juveniles
(TL=21.0to36.0mm)of Metapenaeus dobsoni and Penaeus indicus (TL=10.10 to 14.60 mm) in aquarium tanks of 30 X 30 X 60 cm, containing 25 litres of sea water and plastic pools of 1 m diameter, con
taining 150 litres of seawater. The prawns exhibited average growth rates ranging from 0.225 to
0.574 mm per day. Feed number 15 containing 22.41 % protein gave best results. The average growth
rate per day in length and in weight were 0.505 mm and 0.015 g respectively. The cost of these feeds
varied from Rs. 1.80 to 3.80 per kilogram.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 1991
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1182/1/JMBAI_Vol_33_No_1%262-444-450.pdf
Thomas, M M and Kathirvel, M and George, K V (1991) Laboratory experiments on growth of Penaeid prawns fed with artificial pellets. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 33 (1&2). pp. 444-450.