Contents

Preface
Acknowledgement
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Abbreviation

Chapter One
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Justification
1.2 Objectives
Chapter Two
2.0 Literature Review
2.1 Background
2.2 Distribution
2.3 Morphology
2.4 Classification
2.5 Lifecycle
2.6 Nutrition requirement
2.7 Protein / Amino Acid Requirement
2.8 Effect of Fish age or fish size on Protein Requirement
2.9 Mineral and Vitamin requirement
2.10 Energy Requirement
2.11 Water Quality Requirement
2.12 Plant and Animal Products used in Goldfish feed formulation

Chapter Three
3.1 Material and Methods
3.1.1 Experimental Fish
3.1.2 Experimental Diets
3.1.3 Experimental Set Up
3.1.4 Feeding Rate
3.1.5 Fish Weight Measurement
3.1.6 Water Quality
3.2.0 Analysis of Fish Growth
3.2.1. Weight Gain (WG)
3.2.2 Percentage Weight Gain
3.2.3 Specific Growth Ration
3.2.4 Feed Conversion Ratio
3.2.5 Protien Efficiency Ratio
3.2.6 Feed Efficiency
3.2.7 Apparent Net Protien Utilization
3.2.8 Nitrogen Metabolism
3.2.9 Proximate Analysis
3.2.10 Statistical Analysis

Chapter Four - Results
4.1 Water Quality Parameters
4.1.1 Temperature
4.1.2 Hydrogen Ion Concentration (pH)
4.2 Proximate Composition of Experimental Diet
4.3 Growth Performance of C. auratus fingering fed Experience Diets for 8 weeks
4.4 Bi-weekly increase in Weight of C. auratus fed Experimental Diets for 8 weeks
4.5 Bi-weekly increase in Total Length (TL) of auratus
4.6 Carcass Composition of C. auratus. Before and After the feeding period
4.7 Composition of faces of C. auratus before and after the feeding experience

Chapter Five

5.1 Discussion
5.2 Recommendations & Conclusion

References