Beta
1681

GROWTH PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTION OF OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS USING POLYCULTURE SYSTEMS AND FERTILIZERS

Article

Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

Fisheries

Abstract

  Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) with an average weight of 40,0 g were reared with Sarotherodon galilaeus (initial weight of 5L0 g) and Clarias gariepinus (initial weight of 73.0 g) at three different combinations of monoculture, duoculture and polyculture systems. The fishes were stocked in seven earthen ponds with varied areas at a density of 4 fish/ m2 during 210 days and fed on wheat bran. Some rearing ponds were fertilized weekly with a mixture of triple superphosphate and urea.At the end of the rearing period, the polyculture combination gave better growth rate and production for O.niloticus than in duoculture and monoculture systems. The average monthly increments were 21.lg and 29.0 g in ponds 2,3 (polyculture ponds), while in duoculture and monoculture, 18.7 g in pond 6 and 16.6 g in pond 4 were obtained. The specific growth rate and percentage weight gain reached their highest values for O.niloticus (0.85, 4.98 in pond 3 and 0.73, 3.64 in pond 2) using polyculture combination. On the other hand, O.niloticus showed better growth rate when cultured with Clarias gariepinus than with S.galilaeus. Its average weight was 131.0 g in pond 6 (O. niloticus with Clarias gariepinus and 128.5 g in pond 7 {O.niloticus with S.galilaeus).It was also observed that in the fertilized ponds, maximum growth in weight and production were recorded (0.379, 0.165 and 0.158 kg/m2 for the three fish species respectively). In pond 3 (fertilized), the average final weight was 244.0 g for O.niloticus, 188.5 g for S. galilaeus and 332.0 g for Clarias gariepinus. The food conversion ratio has also the optimum value (3.14) for O.niloticus reared in polyculture system and fertilized pond.

DOI

10.21608/ejabf.2001.1681

Keywords

missed

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Sweilum

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Fish Rearing Lab., El-Kanater El-Khayria Fish Farm, Cairo

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

5

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

368

Issue Date

2001-04-01

Receive Date

2017-03-28

Publish Date

2001-04-01

Page Start

105

Page End

119

Print ISSN

1110-6131

Online ISSN

2536-9814

Link

https://ejabf.journals.ekb.eg/article_1681.html

Detail API

https://ejabf.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=1681

Order

8

Type

Original Article

Type Code

103

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries

Publication Link

https://ejabf.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

GROWTH PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTION OF OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS USING POLYCULTURE SYSTEMS AND FERTILIZERS

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023