Effects of water temperature on survival, growth, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of the leopard coral grouper Plectropomus leopardus

The effects of water temperature (15, 20, 25,30, and 35 °C) on survival, growth performance, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of Plectropomus leopardus were studied for a period of 6 weeks. One hundred eighty fish with initial body weights of 26.5 ± 1.5 g were randomly arranged into...

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Main Authors: Sun, Zhijing, Xia, Sudong, Feng, Shouming, Zhang, Zhenkui, Rahman, Mohammad Mustafizur, Rajkumar, Mayalagu, Jiang, Shuguang
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spelling iium-406032017-11-07T04:07:03Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/40603/ Effects of water temperature on survival, growth, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of the leopard coral grouper Plectropomus leopardus Sun, Zhijing Xia, Sudong Feng, Shouming Zhang, Zhenkui Rahman, Mohammad Mustafizur Rajkumar, Mayalagu Jiang, Shuguang S Agriculture (General) The effects of water temperature (15, 20, 25,30, and 35 °C) on survival, growth performance, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of Plectropomus leopardus were studied for a period of 6 weeks. One hundred eighty fish with initial body weights of 26.5 ± 1.5 g were randomly arranged into 15 glass aquaria in equal numbers in five recirculating systems to form five groups in triplicate. The results showed that survival of P. leopardus at 35 °C was significantly greater (P < 0.05) than survival at 15 °C. No death was recorded at 20, 25, and 30 °C. Among all treatment groups, the significantly highest average individual harvesting weight, weight gain, feed ingestion rate and protease enzyme activity of P. leopardus were observed in 30 °C group. Similar results were also observed in protein and fat content in this species. Based on the present findings, a culture temperature of 30 °C can be considered to be the optimum temperature for the aquaculture of juvenile P. leopardus. However, more research is still needed to optimize the nutrition and photoperiod of P. leopardus culture. Springer 2015-01-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40603/1/MM_Rahman%2C_2014-temperature_on_grouper_growth.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40603/4/40603_Effects%20of%20water%20temperature.pdf Sun, Zhijing and Xia, Sudong and Feng, Shouming and Zhang, Zhenkui and Rahman, Mohammad Mustafizur and Rajkumar, Mayalagu and Jiang, Shuguang (2015) Effects of water temperature on survival, growth, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of the leopard coral grouper Plectropomus leopardus. Fisheries Science, 81. pp. 107-112. ISSN 0919-9268 E-ISSN 1444-2906 http://link.springer.com/journal/12562 10.1007/s12562-014-0832-9
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topic S Agriculture (General)
spellingShingle S Agriculture (General)
Sun, Zhijing
Xia, Sudong
Feng, Shouming
Zhang, Zhenkui
Rahman, Mohammad Mustafizur
Rajkumar, Mayalagu
Jiang, Shuguang
Effects of water temperature on survival, growth, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of the leopard coral grouper Plectropomus leopardus
description The effects of water temperature (15, 20, 25,30, and 35 °C) on survival, growth performance, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of Plectropomus leopardus were studied for a period of 6 weeks. One hundred eighty fish with initial body weights of 26.5 ± 1.5 g were randomly arranged into 15 glass aquaria in equal numbers in five recirculating systems to form five groups in triplicate. The results showed that survival of P. leopardus at 35 °C was significantly greater (P < 0.05) than survival at 15 °C. No death was recorded at 20, 25, and 30 °C. Among all treatment groups, the significantly highest average individual harvesting weight, weight gain, feed ingestion rate and protease enzyme activity of P. leopardus were observed in 30 °C group. Similar results were also observed in protein and fat content in this species. Based on the present findings, a culture temperature of 30 °C can be considered to be the optimum temperature for the aquaculture of juvenile P. leopardus. However, more research is still needed to optimize the nutrition and photoperiod of P. leopardus culture.
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author Sun, Zhijing
Xia, Sudong
Feng, Shouming
Zhang, Zhenkui
Rahman, Mohammad Mustafizur
Rajkumar, Mayalagu
Jiang, Shuguang
author_facet Sun, Zhijing
Xia, Sudong
Feng, Shouming
Zhang, Zhenkui
Rahman, Mohammad Mustafizur
Rajkumar, Mayalagu
Jiang, Shuguang
author_sort Sun, Zhijing
title Effects of water temperature on survival, growth, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of the leopard coral grouper Plectropomus leopardus
title_short Effects of water temperature on survival, growth, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of the leopard coral grouper Plectropomus leopardus
title_full Effects of water temperature on survival, growth, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of the leopard coral grouper Plectropomus leopardus
title_fullStr Effects of water temperature on survival, growth, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of the leopard coral grouper Plectropomus leopardus
title_full_unstemmed Effects of water temperature on survival, growth, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of the leopard coral grouper Plectropomus leopardus
title_sort effects of water temperature on survival, growth, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of the leopard coral grouper plectropomus leopardus
publisher Springer
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/40603/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/40603/1/MM_Rahman%2C_2014-temperature_on_grouper_growth.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/40603/4/40603_Effects%20of%20water%20temperature.pdf
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