Effect of Zingiber officinale and Allium sativum Powders as Natural Feed Additives Promoting Growth, Feed Utilization and Whole-Body Composition in Clarias gariepinus Fry
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 24h fasting, 525 fry weighing 1.2 ± 0.01g 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 ± 2.99g), weight gain (WG) (31.81 ± 0.99g), specific growth rate (SGR) (5.86 ± 0.16%/d) and
feed conversion ratio (FCR) (1.25 ±
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