Effect of biomar and poultry diets on growth parameters and survival rate of Texas cichlid fish (Cyanoguttatus herichthys, Baird & Girard 1854)

Subject Areas : New Technologies in Aquaculture Development

Received: 2021-02-03 Accepted : 2021-02-03 Published : 2014-05-22

Keywords: growth, Survival, Cyanoguttatus herichthys, Keywords: Texas cichlid,

Abstract :

Abstract[1] Feeding cost with use of inexpensive diets and keep adequate quality is the major cost for ornamental fish culture operations. This study was carried out during 35 days to determine optimum diet for this fishes fed on Biomar (B) and poultry (P) formulated diet. For this reason 120 Texas cichlid fishes were divided into 4 treatments with three replicates and fed on 100% Biomar diet (T1), 30% B + 70% P (T2), 50% B + 50% P (T3) and 100% P (T4) during research periods. The results showed that all treatments have significant differences in all of growth parameters (P<0.05), but there is no significant differences in survival rate between different treatments (P>0.05). Finally, according to growth performance, survival rate and price index it is suggested that it (T2) can be replaced with (T1) for feeding of Texas cichlid. * Corresponding Authors; Email: [e-mail]