《Application of Wet Waste from Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei with or Without Sea Mud to Feeding Sea Cucumber Stichopus monotuberculatus》.pdfVIP

J. Ocean Univ. China (Oceanic and Coastal Sea Research) DOI 10.1007/s11802-015-2348-z ISSN 1672-5182, 2015 14 (1): 114-120 /xbywb/ E-mail:xbywb@ Application of Wet Waste from Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) with or Without Sea Mud to Feeding Sea Cucumber (Stichopus monotuberculatus) CHEN Yanfeng1), 2), HU Chaoqun1), *, and REN Chunhua1) 1)Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology (LMB), Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology of Guangdong Province (LAMB), South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, P. R. China 2) College of Life Science, Foshan University, Foshan 528231, P . R. China (Received March 28, 2013; revised May 1, 2013; accepted July 10, 2014) © Ocean University of China, Science Press and Spring-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 Abstract In the present study, the applicability of the wet waste collected from shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) to the culture of sea cucumber (Stichopus monotuberculatus) was determined. The effects of dietary wet shrimp waste on the survival, specific growth rate (SGR), fecal production rate (FPR), ammonia- and nitrite-nitrogen productions of sea cucumber were studied. The total organic matter (TOM) level in the feces of sea cucumber was compared with that in corresponding feeds. Diet C (50% wet shrimp waste and 50% sea mud mash) made sea cucumber grow faster than other diets. Sea cucumber fed with either diet D (25% wet shrimp waste and 75% sea mud mash) or sole sea mud exhibited negative growth. The average lowest total FPR of sea cucumber occurred in diet A (wet shrimp waste), and there was no significant difference in total FPR between diet C and diet E (sea mud mash) (P 0.05). The average ammonia-nitrogen production of sea cucumber in different diet treatments decreased gradually with the decrease of crude protein content in different diets. The average highest nitrite-nitrogen production occurred in diet E treatment, and there was