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— 292 —<br />

— Experiments on Fish Nursing of Climbing Perch in Concrete Tanks<br />

The growth of climbing perch larvae in three treatments (I: 500 larvae/m3, II:<br />

1,000 larvae/m3, III: 1,500 larvae/m3) is presented in table 8 . The results show<br />

that the mean final weight reaches the highest value (3.1 g/fish) in treatment II,<br />

and the lowest value (2.0 g/fish) in treatment III, with statistically significant<br />

differences (p < 0.05) between treatments I, II and III after forty-five days. On<br />

the other hand, there were significant differences (p < 0.05) in survival rates of<br />

larvae between treatments I, II and III. The highest survival rate (16.5 %) was<br />

obtained for treatment I, while the lowest value was 4.9 % observed for treatment<br />

III. Generally, low survival rate of the climbing perch fingerlings in both treatments<br />

may be due to unsuitable home-made feed and lack of natural food in the<br />

early larval stage in nursing systems.<br />

Table 8<br />

Mean growth o f climbing perch larvae (1) reared in concrete tanks at different stocking densities<br />

(treatment I: 500 1/m', treatment II: 1,000 1/ m \ treatment III: 1,5001/ m3)<br />

Treatments<br />

Time<br />

• At stocking<br />

• At 15 days<br />

• At 30 days<br />

• At 45 days<br />

• Survival rate (%)<br />

I II III<br />

Mean weight (g) Mean weight (g) Mean weight (g)<br />

0.001<br />

0.058 ± 0.042<br />

0.879 ± 0.078<br />

2.237 ± 1.632 ■<br />

16.54 ± 2.45 ■<br />

0.001<br />

0.015 ± 0.1 1 6<br />

1.673 ± 0.8 0 0<br />

3.057 ± 1.125 6<br />

14.27 ± 2 .2 4 6<br />

0.001<br />

0.027 ± 0.025<br />

0.972 ± 1.260<br />

2.041 ± 1.923 “<br />

4.900 ± 3.15 1<br />

(a,b) values in each column sharing same superscript are not significantly different (p > 0.05).<br />

— Experiments on Fish Nursing of Climbing Perch in Earthen Ponds<br />

The growth rate of larvae in earthen ponds (tab. 9) was a little faster than in<br />

concrete tanks using artificial home-made feed and was similar to those using<br />

natural food at the same stocking density of 1,000 larvae/m2. The survival rate of<br />

climbing perch nursing in earthen ponds fluctuated from 5.9-10.7 %. This low<br />

result is due to high predation of fry and fingerlings in earthen ponds.<br />

Table 9<br />

Mean weight (g) and length (cm) o f climbing perch rearing in ponds<br />

Parameters 3 days* 10 days 17 days 24 days 31 days 38 days 45 days<br />

L (mm)<br />

W (g )<br />

Mean<br />

STD<br />

Mean<br />

STD<br />

305<br />

0.0002<br />

9.0<br />

0.1<br />

0.0336<br />

0.0067<br />

* At stocking (3 days after hatching).<br />

21<br />

0.5<br />

0.2034<br />

0.0990<br />

29<br />

0.3<br />

0.5905<br />

0.0786<br />

38<br />

0.4<br />

1.2005<br />

0.4171<br />

45<br />

0.5<br />

2.0365<br />

0.8159<br />

50<br />

0.4<br />

3.321<br />

1.166

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