Nutritional Effect Of Frozen Chironomidae Larvae On Growth Performance Of Catla Catla Fingerlings

• Main Author: K. Venkatramalingam
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Freeze dried bloodworms, Chronomidae larvae, Nutritional effect, Growth parameters; 10.5281/zenodo.1313660; Indian; Beluga; Beluga*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1313659; https://zenodo.org/record/1313659

Chironomous are one of the most abundant and widely distributed flies in Indian freshwater ecosystems and occupy important position of major food source in the food chain for many fishes. Chironomid larvae, called also blood worms, are well known fresh water organisms due to their invaluable significance in aquaculture. These organisms are excellent and widely used live food for fish larvae. To study the effects of frozen chironomidae larvae diet & formulated basal diet on growth parameters. Fish fed with basal diet and frozen chironomidae larvae (CHIBD2) elicited higher feed consumption (6.70 g).The food conversion and food metabolized was higher (0.70 and 5.89 g) in CHIBD4 and CHIBD2 feed types. The absorption rate, conversion rate and metabolic rate were found to be maximum 28.92, 26.49 and 25.65g in feed BD, CHI, and CHIBD3 respectively. Frozen chironomidal larvae feed with basal diet (CHIBD1, CHI, and CHIBD3) showed better growth (0.94, 0.93 and 0.83 g) than control group (0.76 g).The highest enhancement in length (1.27 cm) was found when fishes fed with frozen chironomidae larvae &basal diet (CHIBD1) and minimum (0.86 cm) in basal diet (BD). The results obtained in this study, it can be concluded that frozen chironomidae larval diet fed with basal supplementary feed to Catla catla fingerlings resulted in simultaneous increase in weight and length. : {"references": ["Da, K. (2014). Rearing practices of live feedstuff animal midge fly larvae (Chironomus circumdatus) Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae). International Journal of Current Science, 12,170-177.", "Jayakumar, V., Senthilmurugan, S., Vijayan, P., & Tamizhazhagan, V. (2018). Indian major carp Labeo rohita (Hamilton, 1882) toxicology approaches on overview. International Journal of Biology Research, 3(1), 332-338.", "Maleknejad, R., Sudagar, M., & Azimi, A. (2014). Effect of Different Live Foods Source (Culex Larvae, Chironomus Larvae and Artemia) on Pigmentation of Electric Yellow (Labidochromis Caeruleus. International Journal of Advanced Biological and Biomedical Research, 2, 355-363.", "Mohseni, M., Pourkazemi, M., Hassani, S., Okorie, O., Min, T., & Bai, S. (2012). Effects of different three live foods on growth performance and survival rates in Beluga (Huso huso) larvae. Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences, 11(1), 118-131.", "Sahandi, J. (2011). Natural food production for aquaculture: Cultivation and nutrition of Chironomid larvae (Insecta, Diptera). Advances in Environmental Sciences, 3(3), 268-271.", "Szlaminska, M., & Przybyl, A. (1986). Feeding of carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) larvae with an artificial dry food, living zooplankton and mixed food. Aquaculture, 54(1-2),77-82.", "Vijayan, P., Senthilmurugan, S., Pugazhendy, K., & Tamizhazhagan, V. (2018). Analysis of physicochemical parameters water samples from Cauvery River in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu. International Journal of Biology Research, 3(1), 223-227.", "Witeska, M., Kozinska, A., Wolnick, J., Sikorska, J., Kaminsaki, R., & Pruska, A. (2007). Diet influenced performance of juvenile common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) after experimental Aeromonas infection. The Israeli Journal of Aquaculture Bamidgeh, 59(3), 146-154.", "Zivic, I., Trbovic, D., Zivic, M., Bjelanovic, K., Markovic, Z., Stankovic, M., & Markovicc, Z. (2013). The influence of supplement feed preparation on the fatty acid composition of carp and Chironomidae larvae in a semi-intensive production system. Archives of Biological Sciences, 65(4), 1387-1396."]}