Abstract
Ornamental fish sector is a widely accepted flourishing industry play an integral part in interior designing uplifted the economic status of developing and underdeveloped nations. With respect to natural fish, they dwell in captivity under confined space may lack natural consumption of aquatic vegetation could adversely affect its physiological aspects. In our study three plant materials of therapeutic uses such as A.sativum, B.monneiri & M.fragrans incorporated diet (TD2,TD3, TD4&TD5) in individual and mixed proportion provided to the ornamental fish X.helleri. The mean length-weight relationship for tested diets CF, TD1, TD2, TD3, TD4 and TD5 in X.hellerianalysed by paired test with Turkey HSD showed significance with p TD3 diet (2 gm brahmi with 11626.8AU) > TD4 diet (1.5gm with 6580.3AU) > TD5 diet (1:1.5:1 gm of garlic, brahmi & nutmeg with 6458.9AU) > TD1(commercial feed with 4831.1.AU) > CF (control feed without plant with 4555.5AU). The survival rate among fishes fed with six diets observed 80% in CF & TD1, 90% in TD2, TD3 &TD5 and 100% in TD4. The present work hence enlightened the accuracy of medicinal plants in promoting survival and pigmentation in sword tail.
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