Pellet feed improvements through vitamin c supplementation for snakehead, channa striata (Bloch 1793), culture
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
1-1-2018
Abstract
Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid (AA), is important in growth and physiological functions of fish. Six soybean meal-based (SBM) diets containing 0, 125, 250, 500, 1000 and 2000 mg.kg-1 of AA were fed to snakehead, Channa striata (Bloch 1793) (initial weight 6.63 + 0.16 g) for 8 weeks in the laboratory. Survival of snakehead in the 250 and 500 mg.kg-1 treatments was significantly higher (P < 0.05) than the control, but not in the other treatments. Final weight and specific growth rate (SGR) of fish in all the AA-supplemented diet treatments were significantly higher (P < 0.05) than the control. Feed intake (FI), feed conversion ratio (FCR), and protein efficiency ratio (PER) also differed significantly, but not in a clearly dose-dependent manner. The requirement of AA for snakehead was calculated to be 277 mg.kg-1. No vertebral anomalies were observed. Erythrocyte count was significantly (P < 0.05) higher at 1000 and 2000 mg.kg-1 than at 0 and 125 mg.kg-1. Fish in 250 mg.kg-1 had significantly (P < 0.05) higher leukocyte count than those in 0, 1000, and 2000 mg.kg-1. A bacterial challenge test with Aeromonas hydrophila revealed that 500 and 1000 mg.kg-1 had the lowest cumulative mortality. In an on-farm trial, SBM-based and commercial diets augmented with 0, 500, 750, or 1000 mg.kg-1 AA were fed to C. striata for 23 weeks. All AA-supplemented SBM-based diets provided significantly (P < 0.05) higher final weights and overall yield than did all the AA-supplemented commercial diets. Maximum survival (85.3 %), final fish weight (573.5 g), yield (293.3 kg.hapa-1) and profit (0.38 USD.kg fish-1), as well as minimum FCR (1.16), production cost (1.12 USD.kg fish-1) and feed cost (0.98 USD.kg fish-1) were obtained with the 500 mg.kg-1 SBM diet.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Asian Fisheries Science
Volume
31
Issue
3
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Hien, Tran T., Pham M. Duc, Nguyen T. Khanh, Nguyen van Khanh, Tran T. Hoa, Tran M. Phu, and David Bengtson. "Pellet feed improvements through vitamin c supplementation for snakehead, channa striata (Bloch 1793), culture." Asian Fisheries Science 31, 3 (2018). doi: 10.33997/j.afs.2018.31.3.002.