~ 289 ~ International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies 2017; 5(4): 289-294 E-ISSN: 2347-5129 P-ISSN: 2394-0506 (ICV-Poland) Impact Value: 5.62 (GIF) Impact Factor: 0.549 IJFAS 2017; 5(4): 289-294 © 2017 IJFAS www.fisheriesjournal.com Received: 16-05-2017 Accepted: 17-06-2017 Paramveer Singh Department of Applied Aquaculture and Zoology Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India. Sunil Kumar Nayak Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Sub-center Powarkheda, Hoshangabad Madhya Pradesh, India. Dhalongsaih Reang Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Sub-center Powarkheda, Hoshangabad Madhya Pradesh, India. Rishabh Singh Department of Applied Aquaculture and Zoology Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India. Correspondence Paramveer Singh Department of Applied Aquaculture and Zoology Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India. A study on growth performance and survivability of Ompok pabda (Hamilton 1822) fingerlings in earthen pond fed with different feed ingredients Paramveer Singh, Sunil Kumar Nayak, Dhalongsaih Reang and Rishabh Singh Abstract An experiment of one and half month was conducted to perceive the growth performance and survivability of Ompok pabda (Hamilton, 1822) fingerlings in earthen pond fed with different feed ingredients. These were four distinct types of feed ingredients with different percent of protein content in rice bran (RB) 14%, mustard oil cake (MOC) 30%, Floating feed (FF) 32% and fish meal (FM) 45% respectively. These all feed stuffs are formulated as EF-I (RB+MOC), EF-II (RB+FF) and EF-III (RB+FM) Three experimental ponds with uniform sizes of rectangular earthen ponds (20 × 10 × 1.5) meters with triplicate replication was conducted. Ompok pabda experiment was started with few old days’ fingerling having an average weight and length of (1.609 gm) and (6.85cm) respectively. 70 fishes were initially stocked. The highest gain in weight P3C (9.20gm), P1C (6.70gm) & P2C (5.40gm), Length P1C (9.8cm), (P3C 8.8cm) & (P2 8.6cm), Average Daily Weight Gain P3C( 0.175), P1C (0.692) & P2C (0.062), Specific Growth Rate P3C (2.102), P1C (1.731) & P21 (1.114), and Survivability of fishes P1C (97%), P3B (82%) & P3A (97%) And lowest Food Conversion Rate after experiment was P3B (0.488), P1C (0.692) & P2C (1.378) respectively. Beside this, the water quality parameters showed most of the fluctuations in phosphate level in water as compared to pH, Ammonia, Temperature, Dissolve oxygen and others. The result implies that fish has better growth performance and survivability with EF-III firstly and secondly in EF-I as compare to EF-II respectively. Keywords: Ompok pabda, Experimental feed (EF), Pond numbers, Survivability 1. Introduction Aquaculture is a productively growing sector in our country and Indian aquaculture has a vast potential to culture more fisheries in future. India is a country which is drastically improving their fisheries growth year by year. Whole world predicted demand for fish and fishery product is 183 million tonnes by end of 2016 and it is expected that 73% will come from aquaculture (FAO, 2004) [7] . The national fish requirement will be 12 mt in 2020 expected . Ompok pabda is freshwater catfish belonging to family Siluridae and of the order Siluriformes (Hamilton, 1822) [4] . Ompok pabda body is elongated and laterally compressed with dorsal-ventrally flattened head. Snout rounded and two pair of barbells present. Superior mouth with lower jaw, O. pabda caudal fin is forked with rounded lobes and pectoral fin with smooth spines (Talwar and Jhingran 1991) [7] . Ompok pabda is a patamodromous catfish and feeding habit is carnivorous.Non-air-breathing catfishes can be well suited to normal pond environment. O. pabda culture is going on strongly in Northeast states (Assam and Tripura) West Bengal and Bihar also. It attains a length of 17cm and geographically distribution of pabda in many neighbor countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Myanmar (Chakarbati et al 2007; Talwar and Jhingran, 2000) [3, 7] . Ompok pabda has high demand due to its high lipoprotein, fewer bones, taste and its nutrition value. But it is not receiving a good response in aquaculture sector because of not proper productive knowledge about feeding, breeding and culture techniques. Internationally IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) [3] declared pabda in red list near threatened species in the whole world. So, there is need to full the demand by improve our skills in fisheries sector by which we can introduce a more productive growth of Ompok pabda in aquaculture. Among various indigenous fishes of India Ompok pabda (Hamilton, 1822) [4] , commonly called as pabda but in M.P Gangwari pabda.