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AQUACULTURE RESEARCH
Volume 42, Issue 9, Pages 1371-1377Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2010.02725.x
Keywords
artificial substrates; shrimp production parameters; nutritional condition; closed system; Litopenaeus vannamei
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The effect of artificial substrates on the water quality, production parameters and nutritional condition was assessed in experimental intensive cultures of Litopenaeus vannamei grown in mesocosm units with zero water exchange. The initial stocking densities in triplicate 1000 L tanks were 600 and 800 g of juvenile shrimp (2.7 g) per unit, with (W) and without (WO) artificial substrates. There were no significant differences between the water quality parameters of the four treatments. In the tanks with the lower stocking biomass, the best survival (96.7% vs. 87.0%), growth rate (1.69 vs. 1.35 g week(-1)). final biomass (1969.6 vs. 1516.0 g m(3)) and feed conversion ratio (1.30 vs. 1.90) were obtained with artificial substrates. Similar results were observed for the higher stocking biomass (90.9% vs. 74.5%, 1.50 vs. 1.13 g week(-1), 2221.6 vs. 1560.8 g m(3), and 1.50 vs. 2.60 respectively). The nutritional condition of shrimp was improved using artificial substrates. The protein content in muscle was higher (21.6% and 20.4%) in ponds with substrates as compared with the control (21.2% and 15.9%).
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