Abstract:Two experimental diets having blood meal (BM) and soybean meal (SBM) respectively, as main sources of protein were compared with Pfizer commercial fish pellets in the nutrition of O. niloticus fingerlings (2.22 ± 0.76 S.D.). The fish were fed the diets at 5% biomass (half at 800 and 1600 hours, respectively) for eight weeks to assess, their performance on and efficiency of utilization of tile diets. Results from the study indicate that there were no significant differences in the growth (daily and specific gro… Show more
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