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Effect of Different Diet of Artemia on Growth of Seahorse, Hippocampus
Barbouri
Che Khairun Aisyah binti Che Khazahari
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mohd Effendy bin Abd. Wahid
Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Fisheries)
School of Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences
Nine adult seahorses at the age of 8 month old were divided into three groups; Group
A feed with Artemia that fed with yeast treatment, Group B feed with Artemia that fed
with rice bran with mixed formula and Group C feed with both feed. All seahorses was
feed with 1.23g of Artemia for three weeks. Results showed that after 7 days, Group
A increased their body weight to 0.63g, whereas Group B and Group C showed
increments of 0.27g and 0.20g respectively. After 14 days, Group B showed the most
increment in weight of 0.2g while Group A showed declination of 0.1g. At the end of
21 days Group A had increments of 0.2g while Group B and C shown weight declination
of 0.2g and 0.3g, respectively. The FCR for each group were 35.1, 96.7 and 773.2
respectively. Different diet by Artemia affect the growth rate of seahorse.
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