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Assessment of different levels of green and brown seaweed meal in experimental diets for whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei, Boone) in recirculating aquaculture system

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A feeding trial was conducted to evaluate digestibility and growth of whiteleg shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei in a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS), fed with diets that included the commercial seaweed meals Nutrigreen (NG) and Nutrikelp (NK). The experimental diets were isonitrogenous (300 g kg−1) and isoenergetic (3.3 Mcal kg−1), and were formulated to include 4 and 8 % of the seaweed meal resulting in five experimental diets: NG4 % and NG8 % of the green seaweed and NK4 % and NK8 % of the brown seaweed, and a control diet without seaweed meal. Juvenile L. vannamei (1.42 g) were stocked in 15 60 L clean-water tanks at 70 shrimp m−2 to evaluate growth. Shrimps of 4.0 and 9.0 g were used for the digestibility trial. Survival in NK8 % (93.3 %) was the highest as compared to the control and the other diets. Apparent digestibility coefficients for dry matter and crude protein were over 80 % in the seaweed meal treatments, and higher (P < 0.05) than in the control diet. However, no significant differences (P > 0.05) were found for final weight, feed conversion ratio, specific growth rate, protein efficiency ratio and individual consumption. This result indicates that an inclusion of 4 and 8 % of brown and green meal in commercial shrimp feed supported adequate growth and survival of juvenile L. vannamei reared in RAS.

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Abbreviations

NG:

Nutrigreen, commercial green seaweeds meals

NK:

Nutrikelp, commercial brown seaweeds meals

RAS:

Recirculating aquaculture system

NFE:

Nitrogen-free extract

SGR:

Specific growth rate

FCR:

Feed conversion ratio

PER:

Protein efficiency ratio

IC:

Individual consumption

ADMD:

Apparent dry matter digestibility

APD:

Apparent protein digestibility

Cr2O3 :

Chromic oxide

NH4 :

Ammonium

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The authors are grateful to the Research Foundation of Science and Technology (FINCyT) for its financial support, as well as Ing. Gunter Villena, from PSW. SAC for providing brown and green seaweed meal and  two anonymous referees are also acknowledged for their valuable suggestions.

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  1. Departamento Academico de Acuicultura e Industrias Pesquera, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM), Av. La Molina s/n, La Molina, Lima, Peru

    Jessie Vargas Cárdenas, Elsa Vega Galarza, David Cano Pitta & Victor Vergara Rubin

  2. Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Rua Dom Manuel de Medeiros, Dois Irmão, Recife, PE, 52171-900, Brazil

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Cárdenas, J.V., Gálvez, A.O., Brito, L.O. et al. Assessment of different levels of green and brown seaweed meal in experimental diets for whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei, Boone) in recirculating aquaculture system. Aquacult Int 23, 1491–1504 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-015-9899-2

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