Experiments on clown knifefish (Chitala chitala Hamilton, 1822) cultured in net cages with trash fish, golden apple snail and pellet feed

Thanh Nhan Trinh1, , Phuong Linh Nguyen1, Ngoc Han Tien1
1 Soc Trang Community College

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This article illustrates the result of an experiment raising clown knifefish (Chitala Chitala, 1822) put into net cages with 05 different diets of pellet feed, trash fish, golden apple snail, mixed feed (50% pellet food + 50% fish) and  mixed feed (50% pellet feed+ 50% golden apple snail). After 8 months of the experiment, all the fish had good growth, weight for market requirement. FCR of fish ranged from 2.55 to 7.53. Survival rates of fish were significantly different (p < 0.05) in the first 02 months and influenced by the growth stage of fish. The obtained profits ranged from 0.9 to 1.6.

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