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Effects of dietary arginine levels on growth, feed conversion, protein productive value and carcass composition of stinging catfish fingerling Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch)

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A 12-week feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the effects of varying levels of dietary arginine on growth, feed conversion, protein productive value and carcass composition of fingerling Heteropneustes fossilis (10.11 ± 0.14 cm; 5.87 ± 0.07 g). Casein and gelatin-based isonitrogenous (38% crude protein) and isocaloric (14.72 kJ g−1 digestible energy) amino acid test diets with varying levels of l-arginine (1.00, 1.25, 1.50, 1.75, 2.00 and 2.25 g 100 g−1 of dry diet) were fed to randomly assigned triplicate groups of fish to apparent satiation twice daily at two feeding schedules (08.00 and 17.30 h). Thermal growth coefficient (TGC; 0.86), feed conversion ratio (FCR; 1.97) and protein productive value (PPV; 0.25) were best attained by the group fed diet containing 1.75 g arginine 100 g−1 of dry diet (D4). Carcass protein content also peaked at the above level of dietary arginine whereas carcass lipid showed consistent drop with the increase in dietary arginine level up to 1.75 g 100 g−1 of dry diet. Second-degree polynomial regression analysis at 95% maximum and minimum response of thermal growth coefficient, feed conversion, protein productive value, carcass protein and lipid productive value against varying levels of dietary arginine yielded that dietary arginine in the range of 1.51–1.66 g 100 g−1 of dry diet, corresponding to 3.97–4.37 g 100 g−1 protein is adequate to optimize growth, feed conversion, protein productive value and improve carcass quality in fingerling H. fossilis.

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Abbreviations

CP:

Crude protein

DE:

Digestible energy

LWG:

Live weight gain

TGC:

Thermal growth coefficient

FCR:

Feed conversion ratio

PPV:

Protein productive value

LPV:

Lipid productive value

HSI:

Hepatosomatic index

VSI:

Viscerosomatic

CF:

Condition factor

EAAs:

Essential amino acid

NEAAs:

Nonessential amino acid

SR:

Survival rate

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The authors are grateful to the Chairman, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India for providing necessary laboratory facilities and also to Prof. John E. Halver for supporting the Fish Nutrition Research Programme at this laboratory. We also gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of university research fellowship awarded to one of us (Farhat) and generous funding received under DST-FIST Programme, New Delhi, in the priority area of Fish Nutrition.

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Farhat, Khan, M.A. Effects of dietary arginine levels on growth, feed conversion, protein productive value and carcass composition of stinging catfish fingerling Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch). Aquacult Int 20, 935–950 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-012-9519-3

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