World Aquaculture Singapore 2022

November 29 - December 2, 2022

Singapore

COMPARATIVE EFFICACY OF DIFFERENT MANGANESE SOURCE FOR GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF ASIAN SEABASS Lates calcarifer

Orapin Jintasataporn, Srinoy Chumkam  and Lalipat  Prompol 

              Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Fisheries, Kasetsart University,

 Bangkok 10900, Thailand

 Email:ffisora@ku.ac.th

 



The study on efficacy of different manganese source for on growth performance, immunity  and deposition in bone of Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer) was assigned in CRD with 5 treatments and 3 replicates. The treatments were control without  manganese supplementation.  The other three treatments of manganese were 10 ppm at different form of inorganic (oxide, chloride, sulfate) and manganese amino acid(Availa-Mn) 10 ppm. Asian seabass with average weight of 24.67±1.09 g were stocked in 500 liter tanks at the density of 10 fishes per tank and fed treatment diet 3% of body weight twice daily for 12 weeks. The results showed that there were statistical differences (P<0.05) on growth performance in term of weight gain, average daily gain, specific growth rate and feed conversion ratio. The growth performance of Asian seabass fed diet supplemental organic Availa-Mn was higher than the other groups (P<0.05). The immunity in term of erythrocyte count, leucocyte count, hemoglobin, serum protein and immunoglobulin (IgM) showed no significantly differences (P>0.05). The deposition of manganese in bone of Asian seabass fed diet supplemental organic Availa-Mn was numerical higher than the other groups but was not significantly differences (P<0.05).  Therefore, supplementation organic manganese amino acid(Availa-Mn) in Asian seabass diet can promote growth performance and manganese accumulation in bone better than inorganic form.