The effectiveness of feeding artemia enriched with vitamin c on the growth performance and survival of Lemeduk fish larvae (Barbonymus schwanenfeldii)

Abstract

The culture of lemeduk fish (Barbonymus schwanenfeldii) still have several obstacles including lack of nutrients in fish diet which causes slow growth rate and low survival. The objective of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of feeding Artemia enriched with vitamin C at different doses on the growth performance and survival of lemeduk fish (Barbonymus schwanenfeldii). This research used completely randomized design method consisting 5 treatments and 3 replications. The treatments tested were Artemia enriched with vitamin C at different doses, namely A (Artemia without vitamin C enrichment), B (Artemia enriched with vitamin C 100 mg/l), C (Artemia enriched with vitamin C 200 mg/l), D (Artemia enriched with vitamin C 300 mg/l) and E (Artemia enriched with vitamin C 400 mg/l). The results showed that the addition of vitamin C in the Artemia had a significant effect (P<0.05) on absolute length growth, daily growth rate and survival of lemeduk fish larvae, but there were no significant effect (P>0.05) on the absolute weight and coefficient of variation. The research showed that the highest value of absolute length growth and daily growth rate were found in treatment D (Artemia enriched with vitamin C 300 mg/l) with an absolute length growth of 6.6±0.48 mm and daily growth rate of 0.330±0.026 mm/day, and the highest survival value was found in treatment C (Artemia enriched with vitamin C 200 mg/l) of 91.7±7.6%.