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JOURNAL OF APPLIED AQUACULTURE
Volume 35, Issue 2, Pages 257-272Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10454438.2021.1956669
Keywords
Brewers Spent Grains; enzyme; additive; non-starch-polysaccharides; aquaculture; nutrition
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This study evaluated the use of Brewers Spent Grains and an enzyme additive in fish diets. The results showed that increasing levels of Brewers Spent Grains in the diets led to reduced growth in the fish, and the addition of enzymes did not improve feed utilization.
This study evaluated Brewers Spent Grains (BSG) and an enzyme additive (Allzyme (TM); ENZ) in practical diets for juvenile (similar to 5 g/fish) Nile tilapia (Trial 1) and channel catfish (Trial 2). Following a factorial arrangement, effects of three dietary levels of BSG (0, 270, and 550 g/kg) and three levels of ENZ (0, 0.2, and 0.4 g/kg) on production performance and whole-body composition of the fish were evaluated. Upon conclusion of the feeding trials, no effects of ENZ, or interactions between BSG and ENZ, were found. Fish survival was >85% and unaffected by diet. Reduced growth of tilapia (from 949% to 778%) and catfish (from 1802% to 1364%) as dietary BSG increased from 0 to 550 g/kg were observed. In these trials, weight gain was reduced in both channel catfish and tilapia at BSG inclusion rates of >= 270 g/kg and that the addition of exogenous enzymes did not improve BSG utilization.
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