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Seyed Hashem Beitalavi; Hamid Mohammadiazarm; Milad Maniat
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In this study, in order to use prebiotics as one of the best solutions to maintain the health of farmed aquatic animals and increase their resistance against pathogenic instead of antibiotics, the effects of different levels of isomaltooligosaccharide (ISO) prebiotics on growth performance, biochemical ...
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In this study, in order to use prebiotics as one of the best solutions to maintain the health of farmed aquatic animals and increase their resistance against pathogenic instead of antibiotics, the effects of different levels of isomaltooligosaccharide (ISO) prebiotics on growth performance, biochemical body composition, and mucosal immunity of red tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus × Oreochromis niloticus) were investigated. For this purpose, 300 pieces of red tilapia were randomly divided into 15 aquariums with capacity of 100 L in 5 treatments with 3 replications. Experimental treatments as described in the control treatment without ISO, first treatment: the diet containing 2.5 g/kg of ISO, second treatment: the diet containing 5 g/kg of ISO, third treatment: the diet containing 10 g/kg of ISO, and fourth treatment: the diet containing 20 g/kg of ISO. Therefore, the fish were fed ad libitum three times per day for 8 weeks. The result showed that the used prebiotic ISO improves growth and nutritional performance, body biochemical composition, and some biochemical parameters of blood serum in red tilapia. In addition, the mucosal immunity indices of fish were improved under the effect of diets containing prebiotic ISO. Among the experimental treatments, the third treatment had the best performance in terms of final weight (13.4±0.31g), food conversion factor (1.02±0.02), percentage of protein content of body (13.49±0.25), blood serum protein (4.66±0.10 gr/dl), globulin (3.23±0.02 g/dl), and mucus immune indices such as mucus protein (20.29±1.05 mg/ml), immunoglobulin (62.0±0.32 mg/ml) 7), and lysozyme activity (9.14±0.24 u/ml). Therefore, it could be concluded that the use of ISO prebiotics at the level of 1% can have beneficial effects on performance of juveniles red tilapia fish.
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Narges Saremi; Saeed Keyvanshokooh; Seyed Mohammad Mousavi; Hamid Mohammadiazarm
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This study was conducted to investigate the effects of nano-selenium (Se) and vitamin C on the growth and nutritional indicators and body composition of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) juveniles. Experimental diets were prepared with three levels of nanoselenium (0, 0.5, and 1 mg/kg) and three ...
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This study was conducted to investigate the effects of nano-selenium (Se) and vitamin C on the growth and nutritional indicators and body composition of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) juveniles. Experimental diets were prepared with three levels of nanoselenium (0, 0.5, and 1 mg/kg) and three levels of vitamin C (0, 500 and 1000 mg/kg). The fish were randomly divided into nine experimental groups in triplicate and fed with experimental diets for eight weeks. The results showed that fish fed with C500Se1 and C500Se0.5 diets had a significantly higher specific growth rate than other treatments (P<0.05). The lowest feed conversion ratio was observed in the C1000Se1 treatment and the highest in the control group (P<0.05). Also, based on the results, no significant change was observed in the carcass biochemical composition of common carp juveniles (P>0.05). In general, the results show that the composition of nanoselenium and vitamin C had positive effects on the growth and nutritional indicators of common carp, and it can be stated that the diet enriched with 500 mg of vitamin C and 1 mg of nanoselenium is recommended to increase the growth of common carp.
Introduction
Selenium (Se) is an essential micronutrient that participates in the structure of selenoproteins with vital biological functions in humans and animals. Selenium is involved in antioxidant defense, growth, fertility, immunity, digestion, and absorption of food in farmed animals, and has been used in nutritional studies on various fish species. Combined supplementation of nanoselenium and vitamin C improved growth performance and health status of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) (Dawood et al., 2020). However, the positive effects of combining nanoselenium with vitamin C in common carp have not been investigated. As studies on other species suggest that the positive effects of nanoselenium can be enhanced in combination with other micronutrients (Khalil et al., 2022), the present study aimed to investigate the effects of nanoselenium and vitamin C on growth performance and body biochemistry of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) juveniles.
Materials and methods
Experimental diets were prepared with three levels of nanoselenium (0, 0.5 and 1 mg/kg) and three levels of vitamin C (0, 500 and 1000 mg/kg). The fish were randomly divided into 9 experimental groups in triplicates and were fed with experimental diets for 8 weeks. The fish were fed twice a day (9:00 am and 17:00 pm). Each experimental treatment was aerated with constant aeration and about 20% of water was daily exchanged. During the experiment, water quality parameters were daily monitored. Temperature ranges from 27.5 to 28.3oC, pH was between 7.5 and 7.8, dissolved oxygen was 7.2 to 7.5 mg/ml and photoperiods were about 10 hours of light and 14 hours of dark and was adjusted according to the daily natural light. At the end of the experimental period, all fish in each treatment were biometrically measured and the growth parameters were calculated.
Results
The results showed that fish fed with C500Se1 and C500Se0.5 diets had a significantly higher specific growth rate than other treatments (P<0.05). The lowest feed conversion ratio was observed in the C1000Se1 treatment and the highest in the control group (P<0.05). Also, based on the results, no significant change was observed in the carcass biochemical composition of common carp juvenile (P>0.05).
Conclusion
In the present study, the addition of nanoselenium and vitamin C, alone or in combination, to the diet of common carp increased the final weight and SGR and improved the FCR. These findings are in agreement with studies that investigated the effects of Nanoselenium or vitamin C supplements in their separate application on common carp (Ashouri et al., 2015; Ghafarifarsani et al., 2022) and other fish species (Çiçek and Özoğul, 2021, Dawood et al. 2021). In general, the results show that the composition of nanoselenium and vitamin C had positive effects on the growth and nutritional indicators of common carp and it can be stated that the diet enriched with 500 mg of vitamin C and 1 mg of nanoselenium is recommended to increase the growth of common carp.
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Mazdak Aalimahmoudi; Hamid Mohammadiazarm
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The aim of this study was to investigate the growth performance and body composition of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in biofloc system. Firstly, 750 fingerling fishes with an average weight (17±0.05gr) were randomly divided into 30 polyethylene tanks with a volume of approximately 250 liters ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the growth performance and body composition of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in biofloc system. Firstly, 750 fingerling fishes with an average weight (17±0.05gr) were randomly divided into 30 polyethylene tanks with a volume of approximately 250 liters of water (25fish/tank). The treatments consisted of 3 levels of carbon to nitrogen ratio including 15, 20 and 25 and 3 levels of dietary crud protein content of 25%, 30% and 35% with three replicates for each treatment was performed over a period of 56 days. The highest feed conversion ratio and also lowest percentage of weight gain and specific growth rate were observed in treatment with protein 35% and C/N25 compared with control group (P0.05). The lowest amount of crude lipid was obtained in control treatment that it was significantly different compared with some treatments (P
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Maryam salami beni; Ebrahim rajab zade ghatrami; Hamid mohamadi azarm; mehdi hoseini
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AbstractIn intensive and semi-intensive breeding systems of shrimp, growth and development Dependson natural foods addition, the complete nutrition that can provide all the nutritional requirements of existing needs. This study was done on 6shrimp farms pool in Choebdeh of Abadan for 7 months. Shrimp ...
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AbstractIn intensive and semi-intensive breeding systems of shrimp, growth and development Dependson natural foods addition, the complete nutrition that can provide all the nutritional requirements of existing needs. This study was done on 6shrimp farms pool in Choebdeh of Abadan for 7 months. Shrimp were fed with two different diets,Goldquine imported and domestic Shiraz Bayda. Sampling at the starter with an average weight of 2/52 ± 0/35, growing at an average weight of9 ± 1/41 and final with an average weight of 16± 1/41 was conducted. The results showed no significant difference in the indices of two diets (P