EVALUATION THE GROWTH PERFORMANCE AND FEED UTILIZATION OF CYPRINUS CARPIO FED ON MORINGA OLEIFERA LEAVES FLOATING ON WATER AS SUPPLEMENTED DIET

Abstract

The objective of the current study was to assess the effects of utilizing Moringa oleifera at various inclusion levels in fish meal-based diets for common carp fish. In contrast to control treatments without Moringa oleifera, leaves floated on water MOLW when was present in this experiment at doses of 2%, 4%, and 6%. Fish are fed twice daily at a 3 percent weight feeding ratio. We weigh the fish every two weeks up until the last week of the experiment (84 days). The T3 diet, which included 4% MOLW, had the highest rate of relative growth rate 99.65, significantly higher, at the probability level significantly (P<0.05) followed by the T4 diet, which contained 6% MOLW 88.79, the T2 diet, which contained 2% MOLW 70.08, and the control diet T1, which contained 0% MOLW, had the lowest value 25.54. Three variables in the T3 diet were statistically significant: daily growth rate 0.32g/day, feed conversion ratio 3.42, and specific growth rate 0.82. T3 treatment had the best protein efficiency ratio (0.86), followed by the T4, T2, and T1 treatments (0.81, 0.53, and 0.23 respectively). In of Protein productive value, T3 treatment attained the greatest value at 0.64, followed by T4, T2, and T1 at 0.58, 0.49, and 0.22, respectively. We conclude from the foregoing that the addition of moringa seeds in proportions of 2, 4 and 6 to the diet of common carp fish enhanced both the growth parameters and some other parameters of the experimental fish. But the bester level was 4%.