Formulation of cheap prawn diets and their biological evaluation on some penaeid prawns

Abstract

While using the cheap locally available wastes and raw materials, two compound diets have been formulated and prepared. Three species of penaeid prawns viz. Metapenaeus monoceros, M. affinis and Penaeus indicus were fed on these diets in the laboratory for their biological evaluation. The essential features of a shrimp diet such as the physical stability in water and its ingestion rate at different time intervals are also discussed