Comparitive Utilization and Food Conversion Ratio Study of Different Feed Ingredients Like; Rice Bran, Fish Meal, Mustard Oil Cake and Floating Feed Mixture in Earthen Pond Fed via Tor Tor (Hamilton, 1822) Fingerlings

Abstract

An experiment of 45 days was conducted to depict the comparative utilization and food conversion ratio of different feed ingredients via Tor tor (Hamilton, 1822) fingerlings in earthen pond. The protein content of the ingredients Rice bran (RB), Mustard oil cake (MOC), Floating feed (FF) and Fish meal (FM) was recorded as 14%, 30%, 32%, and 45%, respectively. These all feed stuffs are formulated as EFI (RB+MOC), EFII (RB+FF) and EFIII (RB+FM). Three experimental ponds uniform sizes of rectangular earthen ponds 20×10×1.5 m with triplicate replication were conducted. Tor tor fingerlings were collected from Narmada River at Dongarwara ghat in the Hoshangabad. Tor tor experiment was started with few old days’ fingerling having an average length P1 (EF1) 7.01 cm, (EF2) 6.23 cm, (EF3), Pond 2 (EF1) 6.64 cm, (EF2) 7.00 cm, (EF3) 6.62 cm and Pond 3 (EF1) 6.50 cm, (EF2) 6.96 cm, (EF3) 6.85 cm, respectively and average weight Pond 1 (EF1) 3.93, (EF2) 3.55, (EF3) 4.06, Pond 2 (EF1) 3.53, (EF2) 3.88, (EF3) 3.72 and Pond 3 (EF1) 3.24, (EF2) 4.00, (EF3) 4.09 gm, respectively. 70 fishes were initially stocked. During the experiment utilization of feed was recorded lowest during initial 03 days. Average Utilization of feed was recorded at starting 3 days with EF1 (10–12.5%), EF2 (14–15%) and EF3 (17–20%). Utilization of feed increased during the last 15 days it was highest with maximum acceptability of EF3 (96–97%). The utilization of fish meal was found to be highest as compared to others.

Keywords: Tor tor, Experimental fish feed, Utilization, Food conversion ratio

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Rishabh Singh, Paramveer Singh, Sunil Kumar Nayak, et al. Comparitive Utilization and Food Conversion Ratio Study of Different Feed Ingredients Like; Rice Bran, Fish Meal, Mustard Oil Cake and Floating Feed Mixture in Earthen Pond Fed via Tor Tor (Hamilton, 1822) Fingerlings. Research & Reviews: A Journal of Life Sciences. 2017; 7(2): 35–41p.