Abstract

An experiment was carried out to understand the effect of prepare feed (T1) compare with commercial feed (T2) on growth performance of shing (Heteropneustes fossilisfor a period of 5 months during 15 March to 15 August 2018 at the farmer’s pond Sreepur,Gazipur). Fish were stocked at 100 per decimal in both treatments with triplicate. Average initial stocking weight was 12gm. Over the study period physico-chemical parameters such as temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, ammonia-nitrogen (NH3-N) remained suitable for shing aquaculture. However, growth performances were remarkably influenced by feed category. Mean weight gain (g) of shing was 58.5±4.62 and 47.29±3.86, specific growth rate (%day-1) were 1.23±0.04 and 1.00±0.03 in T1and T2 respectively. On the other hand, food conversion ratio was 1.6±0.01and 1.8±0.01 and survival were 95.17±3.7 and 96.23±1.76 in T1 and T2 respectively. The findings of the present study revealed that the highest weight gain and lowest FCR was found in T1 which dictates that quality feed stuff such as fish meal has a significant impact for better aquaculture production.

Keywords

shing, growth performance, prepared feed, commercial feed, survival, booming industry, stocking density, fish species, commercial feeds