@article{Y. Abubakar_K. Ipinjolu_A. Hassan_O. Alegbeleye_2013, title={Survival and growth of Clarias gariepinus (burchel 1822) fry on cultured freshwater zooplankton and decapsulated Artemia}, volume={2}, url={https://www.sjournals.com/index.php/sjz/article/view/1166}, abstractNote={<div> <p><em>Artemia&nbsp;</em>and dried zooplankton were fed to four day-old&nbsp;<em>C. gariepinus</em>&nbsp;fry at 3% and 5% feeding rates each as first feed. Dietary treatments were in triplicate, in a completely randomized design. Composition of mix-cultured zooplankton showed&nbsp;<em>Rotifera&nbsp;</em>(53.12%) to be dominant. Spawning with ovaprim at 0.5% ml/kg recorded 76% fertilization and 79% hatchability at temperature range of 28 to 30<sup>0</sup>C. The best percentage survival (70.00 ±12.77) was obtained for larvae fed zooplankton at 3% feeding rate. Fry fed&nbsp;<em>Artemia&nbsp;</em>at 5% feeding rate, recorded specific growth rate of 12.68 ±0.64, which was significantly (P &lt;0.05) higher than other three treatments. The condition factors ranged from 3.32 ± 0.09 to 1.73 ± 0.71 and were not significantly different (P &gt; 0.05). Feed conversion ratio was best (0.31 ±0.09) in fry fed zooplankton at 3% feeding rate, and no significant (P &gt;0.05) difference between the treatments. Water temperature ranged from 26.85<sup>0</sup>C to 29.05<sup>0</sup>C pH 7.71 to 7.83. Fry fed dried mixed-freshwater zooplankton diet had highest survival rate and the best growth rate obtained for fry fed&nbsp;<em>Artemia</em>. It was therefore concluded that&nbsp;<em>Clarias gariepinus&nbsp;</em>fry can be fed dried mixed-cultured freshwater zooplankton in event of scarcity and un-affordability of decapsulated&nbsp;<em>Artemia</em>.</p> </div>}, number={6}, journal={Scientific Journal of Zoology}, author={Y. Abubakar, M. and K. Ipinjolu, J. and A. Hassan, W. and O. Alegbeleye, W.}, year={2013}, month={Jun.}, pages={54-63} }