DOMESTICATION TECHNIQUE OF COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT FRESHWATER MUD EEL, Monopterus cuchia (HAMILTON, 1822)

NUSRAT  JAHAN; MOHAMMAD  ABDUS SALAM; ALI  AHSAN; MOHAMMAD LUTFAR  RAHMAN; SULAV INDRA  PAUL; SIMON KUMAR DAS; SABUJ KANTI  MAZUMDER

doi:10.55230/mabjournal.v49i1.1659

Authors

NUSRAT JAHAN Department of Genetics & Fish Breeding, Faculty of Fisheries, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur-1706, Bangladesh
MOHAMMAD ABDUS SALAM Department of Genetics & Fish Breeding, Faculty of Fisheries, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur-1706, Bangladesh
ALI AHSAN Department of Genetics & Fish Breeding, Faculty of Fisheries, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur-1706, Bangladesh; Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Cleveland State University, USA
MOHAMMAD LUTFAR RAHMAN Department of Genetics & Fish Breeding, Faculty of Fisheries, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur-1706, Bangladesh
SULAV INDRA PAUL Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur-1706, Bangladesh.
SIMON KUMAR DAS
simon@ukm.edu.my
School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi Selangor, D.E., Malaysia
SABUJ KANTI MAZUMDER Department of Genetics & Fish Breeding, Faculty of Fisheries, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur-1706, Bangladesh

Keywords:

Earthern pond, SGR, FCR, Monopterus cuchia

Abstract

The research was conducted to develop the domestication technique of Monopterus cuchia collected from Sherpur district, Bangladesh. A total of 300 young M. cuchia (average 95±6.4 g) was reared under nine treatments as earthen pond with dead fish (EpDf), earthen pond with live fish (EpLf), earthen pond with formulated feeds (EpFf), mud treated plastic tank with dead fish (PmDf), mud treated plastic tank with live fish (PmLf), mud treated plastic tank with formulated feeds (PmFf), plastic tank with dead fish (PtDf), plastic tank with live fish (PtLf), and plastic tank with formulated feeds (PtFf) with three replicates each. Size of each earthen pond was 1m3 and plastic circular tank was 0.322m3. Stocking density was maintained at 10 fish in each replicate by random selection. Survival, weight gain (WG), specific growth rate (SGR%/day), feed conversion ratio (FCR), feed conversion efficiency (FCE), and protein efficiency ratio (PER) were measured. The best survival (100±0), WG (61.17±1.83), SGR (0.118±0.026), FCR (2.44±0.17), FCE (35.75%±2.90), and PER (1.75±0.14) were obtained in EpLf, which was significantly higher (P<0.05) than others. This is the first report of domestication of M. cuchia and indicates that earthen pond with live fish might be suitable for domestication of M. cuchia.