IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

International Journal of Agriculture and Earth Science (IJAES )

E- ISSN 2489-0081
P- ISSN 2695-1894
VOL. 9 NO. 3 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56201/ijaes.v9.no3.2023.pg25.30

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Studies on Comparison of the Most Efficient Fish Culturing Facilities between Collapsible (Tarpaulin) and Concrete Fish Tanks

Okadi, D. Ezekiel, P.O. and Nwankwo, C

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Abstract

The Comparison of the Most Efficient Fish Culturing Facilities between Collapsible (tarpaulin) and Concrete Fish tanks were carried out from January, 2023 to April, 2023. The experiment was conducted using two concrete ponds and two tarpaulin tanks. The concrete ponds measured 8 X 4 X 3 and 8 X 4 X 3 feet and the tarpaulin ponds measuring 5 X 4 X 2 and 6 X 4 X 3 feet were used throughout the experiment. The concrete and the tarpaulin ponds were not limed nor fertilized and were stocked with 500 fingerlings each averaging 4.18g and 3.92cm in weight length respectively and the fish were fed at 5% body weight and were randomly sampled monthly. The results indicated that the mean weight gain and the mean length gain of the tarpaulin ponds and concrete ponds were 27.04g, 13.92g and 13.92cm, 9.44cm respectively. The t-cal and t-tab in terms of weight gain were 22.6 and 1.734 and since the t-cal is greater than t- tab there was significance difference on the weight of the cultured fish in the tarpaulin and concrete tanks at P ? 0.05 and the t-cal and t-tab in terms of length gain were 1.13 and 1.734 respectively and the results indicated that t-tab was greater than t-cal and it means there was no significance difference on the length of cultured fish in the tarpaulin and concrete tanks at P ? 0.05.

keywords:

Comparison, Efficient, Collapsible, Concrete and Fish Tanks.

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