Supplementation with 2‐hydroxy‐4‐(methylthio)butanoic acid (HMTBa) in low fish meal diets for the white shrimp,Litopenaeus vannamei |
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| Authors: | CL BROWDY AS BHARADWAJ JA VENERO AJP NUNES |
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| Institution: | 1. NOVUS International, Inc., 20 Research Park Drive, St Charles, Missouri, USA;2. LABOMAR – Instituto de Ciências do Mar, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Avenida da Aboli??o, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | This work evaluated the performance of Litopenaeus vannamei to low fish meal diets supplemented with 2‐hydroxy‐4‐(methylthio)butanoic acid (HMTBa). A basal diet with 150.0 g kg?1 of anchovy fish meal was designed. Two positive control diets were formulated to reduce fish meal at 50% and 100% with 1.0 and 2.0 g kg?1 of MERA? MetCa (calcium salt with 84% HMTBa activity), respectively. Two nearly equivalent diets acted as negative controls, without HMTBa supplementation. A total of 50 clear‐water tanks of 500 L were stocked with 2.22 ± 0.19 g shrimp under 70 animals m?2. Shrimp survival (92.3 ± 5.1% and 81.4 ± 8.0%), yield (808 ± 12 and 946 ± 17 g m?2) and FCR (2.17 ± 0.19 and 3.12 ± 0.37) showed no differences among diets after 72 or 96 days, respectively. A significantly higher shrimp body weight and weekly growth were observed for those fed with the basal diet or diets supplemented with HMTBa compared with non‐supplemented ones. This study has shown that L. vannamei growth, body weight, survival, yield and FCR were supported by HMTBa supplementation when 150.0 g kg?1 of fish meal was replaced by soybean meal and other ingredients, at 50% and 100%. |
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| Keywords: | 2‐hydroxy‐4‐(methylthio) butanoic acid HMTBa Litopenaeus vannamei methionine shrimp |
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