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Effects of dietary phosphorus on growth, body composition, and blood chemistry of juvenile taimen Hucho taimen

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To determine the optimum P requirements of taimen (Hucho taimen), the present study investigated the effects of diets supplemented with different levels of inorganic P (NaH2PO4) on growth, proximate composition, blood chemistry, and mineralization in juvenile taimen. Triplicate groups of fish (mean initial weight 15.39 ± 0.28 g) were fed, until satiation, with different diets containing graded levels of digestible P (0.22, 0.40, 0.55, 0.74, 0.90, and 1.07%), for 84 days. Weight gain, feed conversion ratio, and protein retention were significantly (P < 0.05) improved with 0.40% dietary P, with values 210.69 ± 16.08%, 1.13 ± 0.11, and 31.73 ± 3.34%, respectively. However, no significant increase in these parameters was obtained with increasing dietary P levels (P > 0.05). With increasing dietary P levels, P retention and whole-body lipid content decreased from 75.41 ± 7.06 to 36.41 ± 3.30% and from 3.23 ± 0.13 to 2.74 ± 0.25%, respectively, whereas vertebrae ash and plasma P content increased from 43.68 ± 0.23 to 52.09 ± 0.28% and from 2.18 ± 0.14 to 3.98 ± 0.23 mmol L−1, respectively. Using a broken-line regression model that incorporated measurements of P digestibility, feed efficiency, and normal whole-body and vertebrae P content, the dietary requirement of digestible P was determined to be approximately 0.5% for taimen.

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Abbreviations

IBW:

Initial body weight

FBW:

Final body weight

WG:

Weight gain

FCR:

Feed conversion ratio

CF:

Condition factor

PPV:

Protein productive value

FL:

Fork length

ALP:

Alkaline phosphatase

TP:

Total protein

ALB:

Albumin

GLB:

Globulin

GLU:

Glucose

CHO:

Cholesterol

TG:

Triglyceride

AST:

Aspartate aminotransferase

ALT:

Alanine aminotransferase

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Institutes of HRFRI (HSY201512), the Natural Science Funds of Heilongjiang (QC2015041), and the National Key Technology Research and Development Program in the 12th Five-Year Plan of China (2012BAD25B10).

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    Chang’an Wang, Liansheng Wang, Jinnan Li, Dongli Qin, Zhigang Zhao, Liang Luo, Xue Du, Qiyou Xu & Jiasheng Yin

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Wang, C., Wang, L., Li, J. et al. Effects of dietary phosphorus on growth, body composition, and blood chemistry of juvenile taimen Hucho taimen . Aquacult Int 25, 2135–2148 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-017-0178-2

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