%0 Journal Article %T Effect of Zingiber officinale and Allium sativum Powders as Natural Feed Additives Promoting Growth, Feed Utilization and Whole-Body Composition in Clarias gariepinus Fry %A Paulin Nyadjeu %A Doriane Divine Mane Yemdjie %A No£¿l Arlette Tamko Ndjuissi %A Ghislain Nguimdop Nguenang %A Nesrine Yolande Chamsy Dedou %A Minette Eyango Tabi-Tomedi %J Food and Nutrition Sciences %P 526-543 %@ 2157-9458 %D 2021 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/fns.2021.126040 %X Nutrition is the main factor determining the potential of farmed fish to exhibit their growth capacity as a function of the protein content and certain additives contained in their diet. Thus, the present study was conducted to assess dietary supplementation effects of ginger and garlic as feed additives on growth, feed utilization and whole-body composition in Clarias gariepinus fry. Following a 24 h fasting, 525 fry weighing 1.2 ¡À 0.01 g were randomly divided in triplicate into five treatments of 105 fish each and fed for 56 days. In treatment T0, fry was fed with control basal diet, in treatments T1 and T2, fry was fed with basal diet containing 1% and 2% ginger, while in treatments T3 and T4, fry was fed on basal diet supplemented with 1% and 2% garlic. Fish were fed at the rate of 10% of their body weight and every 14 days, intermediate fish sampling was done during which fry per treatment was counted, measurements taken on a representative sample and the feeding rate adjusted. Main water parameters were recorded daily before feeding. After the feeding trial, fish fed 1% (T3) garlic had the best growth performance in term of final weight (33.01 ¡À 2.99 g), weight gain (WG) (31.81 ¡À 0.99 g), specific growth rate (SGR) (5.86 ¡À 0.16%/d) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) (1.25 ¡À %K < %K i> %K Clarias gariepinus< %K /i> %K Ginger %K Garlic %K Growth %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=109945