Journal of Aquaculture Research & Development

Growth performance, survival rate and feed efficacy of climbing perch Anabas testudineus fed experimental diet with several dosages of papain enzyme

8^th International Conference on Fisheries & Aquaculture

October 02-04, 2017 Toronto, Canada

Zainal A Muchlisin, Muhammad Iqbal and Abdullah A Muhammadar

Syiah Kuala University, Indonesia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Aquac Res Development

Abstract:

The objective of the present study was to determine the optimum dose of papain enzyme in the diet for growing, survival rate and feed efficacy of climbing perch (Anabas testudineus). The study was conducted at the Laboratory of Aquatic of Faculty of Veterinary, Syiah Kuala University from January to March 2016. A completely randomized design was used in this study. Six dosages level of papain enzyme were tested with 4 replications i.e. 0 g kg-1 of feed, 20.0 g kg-1 feed, 22.5 g kg-1 of feed, 25.0 g kg-1 of feed, 27.5 g kg-1 of feed, and 30.0 g kg-1 of feed. The experimental fish was fed twice a day at feeding level of 5% for 60 days. The results showed that weight gain ranged from 2.41 g to 7.37 g, total length gain ranged from 0.67 cm to 3.17 cm, specific growth rate ranged from 1.46% day to 3.41% day, daily growth rate ranged from 0.04 g day to 0.13 g day, feed conversion ratio ranged from 1.94 to 3.59, feed efficiency ranged from 27.99% to 51.37%, protein retention ranged from 3.38% to 28.28%, protein digestibility ranged from 50.63% to 90.38%, and survival rate ranged from 88.89% to 100%. The highest rate for all parameters was found in the dosage of 3.00% papain enzyme kg feed. The ANOVA test showed that enzyme papain gave a significant effect on the weight gain, total length gain, daily growth rate, specific growth rate, feed conversion ratio, feed efficiency, protein retention, protein digestibility, and survival rate of the climbing perch (Anabas testudieus). The best enzyme papain dosage was 3.0%.