
Dietary incorporation of Sweet Potato Ipomoea batatas shoots improved growth performance and haematological profile of Tilapia Oreochromis niloticus in Hapa Nets
Author(s) -
Francis Nuestro Baleta,
Patricia Magistrado-Candelaria,
Diomerl Edward Bondad Baldo,
Love Joy Pallaya-Baleta,
Lander Cezar Plantado,
Meylene Concivarro
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
aquatic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2618-6365
DOI - 10.3153/ar22001
Subject(s) - ipomoea , oreochromis , tilapia , biology , body weight , zoology , ipomoea aquatica , convolvulaceae , fish <actinopterygii> , traditional medicine , food science , botany , medicine , fishery , biochemistry , endocrinology , spinach
This study was conducted to evaluate the potential of sweet potato Ipomoea bata-tas powder (IbSPP), hot-water extracts (IbSPHWE) and crude ethanolic extracts (IbSPCEE) as growth pro-moter and immunoenhancer for tilapia cultured in hapa nets. Fish were divided ran-domly into four Treatments: T1 (control group) was fed a practical diet (PD) while T2, T3 and T4 were fed PD + IbSP powder (P), PD + IbSP hot-water extract (HWE), PD + IbSP Crude Ethanol Extracts (CCE), respective-ly. The growth indices and haematological profile of cultured fish were recorded after four months of feeding experiment. The final weight, weight gain, specific growth rate, condition factor, FCR, PER, FER were significantly higher in fishes that re-ceived PD +IbSPHWE than those that received either PD, PD + IbSPCEE or PD+ IbSPP only. The same trend was observed with the RBC, Hb, HCT, WBC and the PLT and its indices. The study has demonstrated that in-corporation of the hot-water extracts of I. batatas could improve the growth perfor-mance and increase immu-nocompetence of O. nilot-icus as evidenced by im-proved haematological pro-file.