Reduction of ration with protein increase in Clarias gariepinus
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The treatments consisted of three diets with 34.7, 39.2 and 43.7% of crude protein added at 8.0, 7.0 and 6.4% of body weight / day so that all fishes received 2.8 g of crude protein / kg live weight /day. The supplied feed did not significantly differ (P> 0.05) between treatments (44.3, 44.9 and 45.3 g/fish). However, significant differences were found in supplied CP (16.1, 18.0 and 20.4 g / fish), the growths (39.4, 47.8 and 59.1 g of average weight) and feed conversion (1.5, 1.2 and 0.9), in favor of increasing dietary protein levels. The economic analysis showed differences in the rations cost (US $ 0,857, 0,977 and 1.088 / kg), but lower amounts in the production of 1kg of live weight (US $ 1,285, 1,172 and 0.979 / kg). It was demonstrated that the reduction of the amount of ration with increase of dietary protein improved the productive performance of Clarias gariepinus with positive economic effect.
Key words: feeding, clarias, protein requirement.
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