Abstract
The stearine fraction from raw fish oil refinement has been treated as a waste material. This study was conducted to evaluate effects of replacing prime refined fish oil with stearine as the main lipid source to a control diet on shrimp growth and survival as well as on pellet water stability of diets. Test diets were processed containing three levels (0.7%, 1.3% and 2.7%) of either stearine or refined fish oil in a semi-purified control diet. These diets were each assigned to five or six replicated tanks and each tank was stocked with seventeen juvenile shrimp (ca. 0.50 g) in an indoor seawater recirculating system. At the end of 6 weeks, the survival of shrimp was 89.4–95.3% with no significant difference (P > 0.05) among dietary treatments. The six test diets obtained significantly higher (P < 0.05) shrimp growth rates (1.46–1.83 g week−1) than the control diet (1.38 g week−1). The shrimp that were fed the three stearine-added diets exhibited high growth rates (1.75–1.83 g week−1). Increasing the inclusion level of the stearine improved pellet water stability (91.7–93.9%; P < 0.05). These results suggest that stearine can replace fish oil in shrimp feed based on the growth performance.
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