Effect of Different Diet’s Composition on Growth Performance and Survival Rate of Channa marulius
Effect of Different Diet’s Composition on Growth Performance and Survival Rate of Channa marulius
Muhammad Khubaib1*, Muhammad Salman Khan1, Zia Ur Rahman2, Nafees Ahmad1, Muhammad Atif Haider1 and Mushtaq Ahmad Khan3
ABSTRACT
Channa is distributed throughout the subcontinent, highly resistive, spine less, adopted to low dissolved oxygen and is commercially important worldwide. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of different diet on growth performance of Channa marulius to develop a rearing technique for promoting it aquaculture. Four different diets i.e. chicken liver, BSF-larvae, commercial feed and beef mince- having different protein levels were administered to compare their suitability as food for the rearing of C. marulius for 45 days. The fry fed with chicken liver and BSF-larvae showed significantly better result in terms of weight and length gain. The survival rate of C. marulius fed with chicken liver, BSF-larvae, commercial feed and beef mince were estimated as 90%, 85%, 80% and 60% respectively. The absolute weight of C. marulius fed with chicken liver, BSF-larvae, commercial feed and Beef mince were estimated as 2.24 g, 2.00 g, 1.9 g, and 1.86 g respectively while the value of the absolute length of C. marulius fed with chicken liver, BSF-larvae, commercial feed and Beef mince were estimated as 0.9 cm, 0.9 cm, 0.8cm, and 0.9 cm respectively. The value of SGR in term of weight is 1.803%, 1.727% 1.5% and 1.7% on chicken liver, BSF-larvae, commercial diet and beef mince respectively. While in term of length the value of SGR is 0.32%, 0.35%, 0.36% and 0.37% on chicken liver, BSF-larvae, commercial diet and beef mince, respectively. The difference in growth performance observed were highly significant (P ˂ 0.05). The relative growth rate was also higher on chicken liver and BSF-larvae and SGR was high on the Chicken liver. It is, therefore determined that C. marulius can be culture on animal-based protein diet for profitable farming. By creating more enticing and delectable artificial feed, changing feeding strategy, and making more attractive artificial feed, additional study is required to reduce the generation of shooters at juvenile stages.
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