Experimenting on food formula for shrimp

Document Type : Research Paper

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Since the imported concentrated shrimp food is expensive and hard to provide, this project aimed to produce two types of shrimp food using the available raw in in the country. The ratio of protein, fat, hydrocarbons, fiber, ash and minerals in the produced food corresponded to the nutritional requirement of shrimp. Some 600 shrimps, which ware fed randomly with the shrimp food produced in the project and an imported concentrated food (CP) produced in Thailand, were studied closely. In each treatment beside the type of food, all other factors, i.e. salinity, temperature, pH, the capacity and color of the tanks, dissolved oxygen, how often the water was changed and quantity of the food ingested by the larva were the same. The obtained results based on the statistical analyses revealed that there was no significant difference between the food produced in this research and the control food (imported food) and accordingly these shrimp food can be utilized in shrimp culture......