Author

Margaretha Solang

Subject

- Sains

Abstract

The aims of the research were to study the influence of tail amputation and its connection with thegonad maturity index and the growth of nila fish. The experiment consist of three treatments and six replicates for each treatment. Treatment A represent control with no tail cut. Treatment B, fish with tail cut from the middle part of the tail, and treatment C, fish that had tail cut from the last vertebrae (no tail at all). Block Randomized Design using 180 fish with age of 2 months old. Variable perceived at this research was growth and gonad maturity index of the fish. Quantitative data will be analysed using Analysis of Varians (ANOVA). The result demonstrated that the amputation of fish tail will enhance growth and gonad maturity of Oreochromis niloticus. Keywords: Amputation of tail fin, growth index to maturity of gonad, nila fish

Publisher

Universitas Hasanuddin

Contributor

-

Publish

2009

Material Type

ARTIKEL

Right

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