Effect of the ration processing on the apparent digestibility values of nutrients for the piau (Leporinus elongatus)

• Autor(a) principal: Logato,Priscila Vieira Rosa
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Albernaz,Norka da Silva, Ribeiro,Paula Adriane Perez, Freitas,Rilke Tadeu Fonseca de, Fialho,Elias Tadeu
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Ciência e Agrotecnologia (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-70542009000300032
• topic: Feeding; fish; ingredients; nutrition

The experiment carried out at National Center for Research in Tropical Fish Pirassununga, SP, aiming to determine the effect of the ration processing on the apparent digestibility coefficients of the ingredients for the piau (L. elongatus). A total of 600 males of piau were utilized, allotted into six ponds of 300L. The applied treatments were: grinder processed ration, pelleting ration and extruded ration, utilizing rations with 32% crude protein and 3400 Kcal DE.Kg-1. The experiment was in a randomized blocks design with three treatments, three blocks and two replicates. The data were submitted to variance analysis by the SAEG computational package and the means of the treatments compared by SNK test (5% of significance). The results showed that there were significant differences among the digestibility coefficients of both protein and energy for the pelleted and extrused rations (P<0.05). The results showed no statistical differences for the apparent digestibility coefficient of the dry matter (P>0.05).