Effect of fermented Daphnia meal with Bacillus probiotic in-feed of Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) larvae on growth performance and carcass composition

Moradi, Parisa; Jafaryan, Hojatollah; Soltani, Mehdi; Gholipour Kanani, Hosna; Sahandi, Javad

Effect of fermented Daphnia meal with Bacillus probiotic in-feed of Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) larvae on growth performance and carcass composition

Authors

Parisa Moradi ¹

Hojatollah Jafaryan ¹

Mehdi Soltani ²

Hosna Gholipour Kanani ¹

Javad Sahandi ³

¹ Faculty of Natural Resource, Gonbad Kavous University

² Faculty of Veterinary, University of Tehran

³ Department of Marine biology, Faculty of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China

Abstract

In a completely randomized experiment, the effect of Daphnia magna meal on growth performance and carcass composition of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) larvae (body weight 0.538±0.197 g) was evaluated for a period of 60 days. Five diets with the same protein content (crude protein 52.70%) were prepared, including two diets containing fermented daphnia meal T₁ (20%), T₂ (30%), two diets containing raw meal T₃ (20%) and T₄ (30%), and a basal diet without daphnia meal as the control. The bacterial species used for fermenting included five commercial probiotic species. Fermented daphnia meal brought about significantly higher growth and the lowest feed conversion ratios, viz. T₁ (1.27 ± 0.35) and T₂ (1.31 ± 0.46), in comparison with T₃ (1.38 ± 0.37), T₄ (1.41 ± 0.42) and the control (1.84 ± 0.69) (p<0.05). The result of carcass composition analyzes showed that the highest protein percentage (68.23 ± 0.48%) was in T₂ and the highest percentage of fat and energy (11.26 ± 0.50% , 4761.63 ±48.88 Cal g^-1) were in T₄ (p<0.05). The overall results of this experiment indicated that daphnia could be considered as a suitable partial protein source in rainbow trout larval feed.

Keywords

larvae

Trout

Fermentation

Daphnia meal

Feed conversion ratio