2015 Cilt 29 Sayı 1
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Item The effects of feeding frequency on growth performance and proximate composition of young Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus L.)(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2015-03-16) Kaya, Gülderen Kurt; Bilgüven, MuratIn this study, the effects of four different feeding frequency (once (I), twice (II), three (III), or six (VI) meals a day) on the growth performance, feed consumption, feed conversion ratio and proximate composition of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) were investigated. The average live weight of 420 Nile tilapia used in this experiment were 9.39 ± 0.19 g. Four trial groups were tested in triplicate for 10 weeks and 35 fish were stocked in each tank. The fish were fed with the feed (35% CP; 11.7 MJ DE/kg) taken from a commercial feed company. At the end of the study, it was observed that there were important differences among the groups in terms of average live weight, live weight gain, feed consumption, feed conversion ratio (FCR), protein efficiency ratio (PER) and specific growth ratio (SGR) were found statistically significant (P<0.05). Moreover, the difference in the composition of carcass among the groups is found statistically significant (P< 0.05).Consequently, it is understood that feeding frequency has an important effect on growth rate: there is a linear correlation in young fish, and there is a non- linear correlation in adult fish.