O conhecimento da taxa ótima de alimentação para uma determinada espécie não só é importante para promover o maior crescimento e a melhor eficiência na alimentação, mas também para prevenir a deterioração de qualidade de água como resultado do excesso de alimento. O presente estudo teve como objetivo avaliar o desempenho do robalo-peva, Centropomus parallelus cultivado em tanques-rede flutuantes sob o efeito de diferentes taxas alimentares (1; 1,5; 2 e 2,5% da biomassa ao dia e a taxa controle que foi até a saciedade), em condições de cultivo no ambiente natural. Durante 40 dias, cada tratamento foi avaliado em triplicatas e foram verificados os parâmetros biológicos (sobrevivência, taxa de crescimento específico, peso e comprimentos médios finais) e nutricionais (taxa de conversão alimentar aparente). A análise de regressão polinomial da taxa de crescimento específico sugere que em temperaturas médias de 25°C a taxa alimentar que resulta em melhor crescimento para juvenis de robalo-peva é de 1,7% da biomassa viva por dia.

Knowing the optimal feeding rate for a given species is important not only to promote higher growth and greater feeding efficiency, but also to prevent the deterioration of water quality resulting from excess food. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of the fat-snook Centropomus parallelus cultivated in net cages under the effect of different feeding rates (1, 1.5, 2 and 2.5% live biomass daily and control rate up to apparent satiation) in natural environment conditions. For 40 days, each treatment was evaluated in triplicate, in which the biological parameters (survival, specific growth rate, final average weight and length) and nutritional parameters (feed conversion ratio) were assessed. A polynomial regression analysis of specific growth rate suggests that in average temperatures of 25°C, the feeding rate which results in best growth for juvenile fat-snook is 1.7% of live biomass per day.

The objective of this study was to investigate the growth of juvenile fat snook (Centropomus parallelus) in laboratory conditions when fed a diet supplemented with the probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum. Changes in the intestinal flora, haematological parameters and growth performance were assessed using 180 fishes (54.2 ± 13.4 g each). The fishes were subjected to two treatments divided into six cages: 1) feed supplemented with probiotic, and 2) feed without probiotic (control). The temperature, dissolved oxygen and salinity were maintained at 25 ± 1 ° C, 4.0 mg.L-1 and 33 ‰, respectively. After 10 weeks of culture, the fishes fed probiotic had reduced viable culturable heterotrophic bacteria and Vibrio spp. and increased lactic acid bacteria in the intestinal tract, as well as a higher number of thrombocytes, leukocytes and lymphocytes in the blood. No significant difference was observed in the growth, survival or body composition, but the hepatosomatic index was significantly higher in the fishes fed with probiotic and control.