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Freeze-dried Tubifex inclusion increases length, weight, and nutritional indices of Catla fingerlings

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Tubifex worms belong to the Phylum Annelida or the segmented worms and under Family Naididae. They are small, aquatic worms and are found in a variety of aquatic habitats. They can live in low levels of oxygen and feed on sediments.

Today, because of its nutritional value, Aquarists culture and freeze-dry these annelids to feed on different types of fish.

Researchers in India from the Department of Zoology of Dr. Ambedkar Government Arts College found out that inclusion of freeze-dried tubifex in diets of Catla catla increases their nutritional value. In this study, they compared the nutrional indices of the fish by comparing 1) groundnut cake diet as control, 2) freeze-dried tubifex, and 3) groundnut cake plus freeze-dried tubifex. Fishes initially weighing about 2.5 to 2.8 gms and length of about 6.3 to 6.4 cms were selected for the present study. The formulated feeding was given for a period of 30 days.

At the end of the study, there was a very significant increase in body weight, length, and nutritional indices of fish in diets with freeze-dried tubifex with the largest increase in the mixture of groundnut cake plus freeze-dried tubifex worms.

Catla, Labeo catla, aso known as the major South Asian carp, is an economically important South Asian freshwater fish in the carp family Cyprinidae. It is native to rivers and lakes in northern India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan, but has also been introduced elsewhere in South Asia and is commonly farmed.

Reference:
GNANAVEL, K., & SARAVANAN, R. (2019). FORMULATED FREEZE DRIED TUBIFEX DIETS ON NUTRITIONAL INDICES IN FINGERLINGS OF Catla catla (HAMILTON). UTTAR PRADESH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 39(2), 76-82. Retrieved from http://mbimph.com/index.php/UPJOZ/article/view/1402

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