Effect of different sources of water and three different supplementary diet on the propagation of cat fish Claria gariepinus.

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This study investigated the effect of the river and deep well suitability for the hatching of Clarias gariepinus fingerlings and the effect of blood meal, fish meal and chicken offal meal on the growth of Clarias gariepinus. The experiment is 2x3 arrangements, treatment in a randomized complete block design. The experiment made up of six treatments and three replicates. The treatments are Fish fed with blood meal in rivers water (T1B), fish fed with blood meat and in deep well treated water (T2B), fish fed with chicken offal in river water (T1C), fish fed with chicken offal in deep well water (T2C), fish fed with fish meal in river water (T1F), fish fed with fish meal in deep well water (T2F). The survival rate, length, girth and weight were taken for four weeks and data collected were analyzed using descriptive analysis ANOVA. Results indicated that fish hatched in river water has the best viability rate of 45.5cm. Also there was significant differences in the mean length girth and the weight across the treatment with fingerlings fed with blood meal (T2B) having the highest mean of survival rate of 87.5% mean length of 1.94cm, mean girth of 1.22cm mean weight of 3.45g, followed by fish fed with fish meal (T2F) which has the mean survival rate of 86.3% mean length of 1.74cm, mean girth of 1.1cm and mean weight of 3.15g. The fingerlings fed with chicken offal (T1C) has the lowest performance of mean survival rate of 84.4%, mean length of 1.63cm mean girth of 0.9cm and mean weight of 2.98g. It is concluded that river water is the best for propagation of Clarias gariepinus because of it low content of chlorine and concentration of high dissolve oxygen.