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    This document discusses fish feeding and nutrition. It covers the following key points: 1. Fish have a varied natural diet including plants, animal plankton, eggs, and other organisms. Commercial fish feeds aim to provide balanced nutrition for farmed fish and are made in different forms like powder, granules or pellets. 2. The amount of feed given depends on factors like the fish type, age, and water conditions. Overfeeding can pollute the water and stress the fish, while underfeeding impacts growth. A general guideline is 5% of biomass per day for dry feed for growing fish. 3. Feeding rates should decrease as fish grow and their metabolic needs decline. Examples are given

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    This document discusses fish feeding and nutrition. It covers the following key points: 1. Fish have a varied natural diet including plants, animal plankton, eggs, and other organisms. Commercial fish feeds aim to provide balanced nutrition for farmed fish and are made in different forms like powder, granules or pellets. 2. The amount of feed given depends on factors like the fish type, age, and water conditions. Overfeeding can pollute the water and stress the fish, while underfeeding impacts growth. A general guideline is 5% of biomass per day for dry feed for growing fish. 3. Feeding rates should decrease as fish grow and their metabolic needs decline. Examples are given

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    This document discusses fish feeding and nutrition. It covers the following key points: 1. Fish have a varied natural diet including plants, animal plankton, eggs, and other organisms. Commercial fish feeds aim to provide balanced nutrition for farmed fish and are made in different forms like powder, granules or pellets. 2. The amount of feed given depends on factors like the fish type, age, and water conditions. Overfeeding can pollute the water and stress the fish, while underfeeding impacts growth. A general guideline is 5% of biomass per day for dry feed for growing fish. 3. Feeding rates should decrease as fish grow and their metabolic needs decline. Examples are given

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    This document discusses fish feeding and nutrition. It covers the following key points: 1. Fish have a varied natural diet including plants, animal plankton, eggs, and other organisms. Commercial fish feeds aim to provide balanced nutrition for farmed fish and are made in different forms like powder, granules or pellets. 2. The amount of feed given depends on factors like the fish type, age, and water conditions. Overfeeding can pollute the water and stress the fish, while underfeeding impacts growth. A general guideline is 5% of biomass per day for dry feed for growing fish. 3. Feeding rates should decrease as fish grow and their metabolic needs decline. Examples are given

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    Fish Hygiene
    479 VMD
    Topics of Fish Hygiene and diseases

    • Introduction
    1 • Body system and organs of fish

    2 • Fish feeding

    3 • Fish diseases
    4 • Bacterial fish diseases

    5 • Viral fish diseases.

    6 • Parasitic fish diseases.


    7 • Mycotic fish diseases.

    8 • Fish meat hygiene

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    Fish feeding

    Natural foods
    Jaws and teeth allow fish to eat a wide variety of food,
    including natural
    1. Plants plankton • .
    2. Animal plankton
    3. Other water organisms
    4. Eggs
    5. Scales
    Fish meals:
    Of animal origin:
    • Crustacea
    • Baby fish
    Of plant origin:
    • Cereal grains
    • Vegetables
    • Plant roots • .
    Dried food products:
    • Some dried milk products
    • Dried blood
    Oil , fat, bone, Minerals and vitamins:
    Commercial fish feed:
    • Providing the balanced nutrition needed by
    farmed fish.
    • Definite fish feed for each age stage.
    May be :
    • Powder
    • granules or pellets • .
    Different fish feed
    1. Starter feed (flour-like material)
    2. Fingerling feed
    3. Growing feed

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    Number of Feedings per Day:
    • The type of food is an important as the amount
    • Depends on the kind of fish
    • Young, growing fish might need to eat three or
    more times per day.
    • Most fish will do well with two meals a day
    • .
    Types of pellets:
    1. Floating granules
    2. Sinking granules

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    Problems of overfeeding:
    1. Excessive digestive wastes
    2. Pollute the water
    3. Create high ammonia, nitrite and nitrate
    levels
    4. Lower the oxygen level
    5. Lowering the pH levels
    6. Stress the fish • .
    7. Clog filters
    8. The water become toxic

    High nitrate levels is indication of overfeeding


    Feeding Rate:
    1. Underfeeding can result in loss of production.
    2. Overfeeding will cause a wastage of expensive feed and is
    additionally a potential cause of water pollution, a condition
    resulting in loss of fish or requiring expensive corrective
    measures.
    3. Thus, both overfeeding and underfeeding have serious
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    economic consequences which affect the viability of the
    farm.
    Feeding Rate:

    1. In the growing cycle 5% of biomass per day for a dry feed


    2. Feeding rates should not stay steady throughout the whole of
    the growing cycle to market size.
    3. They must be modified according to the size and age of the
    fish, and to the water conditions.
    4. The quantity of feed to •be. given to a pond or cage each day
    should normally be based on a percentage of the biomass
    present (total weight of fish)
    An example:
    1. If a pond contains 10 000 fish weighing 10 g on average and the
    recommended feeding rate is stated to be 7% per day,
    2. The amount of feed to be given daily is:

    10000 x 10 x7 7000 g (7 kg) per day


    100
    • The percentage of biomass • .
    to be fed is not a fixed amount
    • It should decrease as the animals grow, to reflect their decreasing
    metabolic rate.
    • The ratio of weight of feed per day to fish weight (biomass) is high at
    the start of the growing period and lower towards the marketable size.
    Factors affecting fish feeding:

    1. Temperature
    2. Degree of water acidity
    3. Water oxygen content
    4. Water mineral content

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    Tilapia feeding rate:
    1. Fingerlings 4 or 5 times per day
    2. Adult tilapia 2-3 feeds per day in daylight hours

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    Favorable causes of Tilapia aquaculture:

    1. Easy spawning
    2. Diseases resistant
    3. Accommodate with different range of temperature
    4. Accommodate with water acidity degrees
    5. Good growth level
    6. Feed on available foods• .
    7. Accepted for consumers
    Thank you
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