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Two age groups of juvenile Synodontis petricola (Group I, 0.5 years and Group II, 1.5 years) were reared on each of five diets: formulated dry diet; Artemia; Spirulina; formulated diet plus Artemia; and formulated diet plus Spirulina. Fish were fed for 84 days and weighed and measured every 14 days. Growth of S. petricola averaged 0.06 mm/day for both age groups. There was no significant difference in percent survival between the fish fed on different diets within each of the two groups but the younger fish (0.5 years) had a significantly lower survival percentage (90.3%) than those in Group II (95.3%). Fish in Group I fed on Spirulina alone grew slower than those fed only on formulated dry feed, whereas the growth rates of fish fed on other diets, or diet combinations, did not differ from each other in both age groups.
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Kaiser, H., Rouhani, Q. Growth of Juvenile Synodontis petricola (Family: Mochokidae) Fed on a Formulated Diet, Artemia or Spirulina and Combinations Thereof. Aquarium Sciences and Conservation 2, 117–123 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009606107770
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