Background:
Pangasius is highly preferred fish by the consumer across the world because of its good quality fillet and less bone. In spite of its omnivorous feeding habit and efficient ability to utilize artificial feeds sufficient numbers stocking material is not available for its aquaculture. The availability of seed for successful pangas culture greatly depends on the use of proper larval feed. ICAR-CIFA, after conducting several feeding trials developed the weaning diet “Starter-Pangas” under ICAR’s Outreach ‘Fish Feed’ project to meet the nutritional requirement of pangas larvae.
Technology Details:
Starter-Pangas is nutritionally balanced and highly palatable for baby pangas. It ensures faster growth and high larval survival. Two weeks feeding of Starter-Pangas is good enough to get healthy fry with 80% survivability. The feed is available as dry crumbles. An ordinary dry and cool place is suitable to store feed packets.