Abstract
Artemia sp. is a common natural feed for shrimps at the post-larvae stage and is characterized by poor lipid content. Therefore, Artemia is commonly enriched with specific nutrition, including biofloc. This contains some useful nutrients in the form of protein and polyhydroxy butyrate (PHB). The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of Artemia enriched with biofloc on the growth performance of black tiger shrimp, P. Monodon, and whiteleg shrimp P. vannamei. This research used acompletely randomized design (CRD), encompassing three treatments of feed and four replications. The tested treatments include: (a) Artemia sp. without enriched (b) Artemia enriched with biofloc, and (c) biofloc without Artemia, and the treatments were fed on black tiger as well as whiteleg shrimp post-larvae for 15 days. The results showed the significant effect of using Artemia sp. enriched with biofloc on the growth of P. monodon and P. vannamei, but not on the survival rate. However, both parameters were significantly influenced for post-larvae shrimp at a dose of 30 mL biofloc. This served as a nutritional source by providing the best growth of 14.57 mg and 15 mg at a daily growth and survival rate of 0.86 mg day-1: 98% and 1.4 mg day-1: 99% for P. vannamei and P. monodon, respectively.
Highlights
A natural feed is one of the important factors in post-larvae shrimp culture
The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of Artemia enriched with biofloc on the performance of P. monodon and P. vannamei
Data on the survival rate of black tiger shrimp post-larvae are as follows: Artemia feed without enrichment (96%), Artemia enriched with biofloc (99%), and biofloc only (86%) (Figure 1a)
Summary
A natural feed is one of the important factors in post-larvae shrimp culture. The natural feed should have nutrient content that is needed by shrimp (Supono and Hudaidah, 2018). The Penaeid shrimp, including Penaeus monodon (black tiger) and Penaeus vannamei (whiteleg shrimp) require lipid as a source of essential fatty acids and various classes of the other fat like phospholipid and sterol. These species have the ability to utilize the fatty acid obtained from Artemia as an irreplaceable natural feed. The nutritional contents of Artemia need to be adequately enriched before use This is possibly achieved by introducing some materials, including probiotics (Hamsah et al, 2017), essential fatty acids (Akbary et al, 2011), selenium (Juhasz et al, 2017), and soybean meal (Putra et al, 2016). No study has exploited enrichment using biofloc, the application on black tiger shrimp P. monodon has been reported by Nurhatijah et al (2016) and Supriatna et al (2019)
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