Growth Booster (Fish Feed Supplements)

Fish needs some extra feed along with available natural feeds in water for their regular growth.  This extra feed which are provided to fish is called supplementary feed of fish. The fisheries sector contributes significantly to the nutrition of millions of people around the world. Growth in fish is regulated by factors such as access to food, water temperature and photoperiod. Since cultured fish get only a small portion of their food nutrients naturally, they must be fed a complete feed. Manufactured feeds normally make up 50 to 70 percent of the expenses in fish farming. No one feed ingredient can supply all of the nutrients and energy fish need for best growth. Commercial fish feeds contain a mixture of feedstuffs, protein and vitamin and mineral premixes that provide the right essential nutrients as well as the energy necessary to use the nutrients. Nutrients essential to fish are the same as those required by most other animals. fish also need protein, carbohydrate, lipids, minerals, and vitamins for healthy growth. The main ingredients of fish feed contain protein, fat and mineral substance, and raw materials of these ingredients mainly include straw meal, soybean cake, peanut cake, corn protein powder, rice bran, wheat bran and so forth. The amount of each feed ingredient depends on several factors, including nutrient requirements, ingredient cost, availability of each ingredient and processing characteristics. A complete diet must be nutritionally balanced, palatable, water stable, and have the proper size and texture. It is notable that protein, mainly used for growth, is the main expensive macro-ingredient in fish feed. But if there is no available energy in the diet; growth of fish is compromised. When carbohydrate is available in the fish feed, it is used as energy sources, and more protein is used for growth, which is commonly known as protein sparing effect. Thus, our feed supplement is a one kind of carbohydrate (starch) can be useful energy sources in fish diet which is purely veg. Digestibility energy is one of the important concerns to use any ingredient in fish feed, depends on origin, sources, physical state, inclusion level of starch and fish species. As we know that there are three water layers in the pond; upper layer, mid layer and low layer and we designed our supplements such a way that every layer’s fish can eat it properly like floating for upper layer fish, mid-rise for middle layer fish and sinking for low layer fish. Our supplement has been used in fish feed, such as normally contains minimum 28-30% of protein.