THE ADDITION OF DIFFERENT PREBIOTICS ON FEED TO INCREASE THE GROWTH OF WHITE SHRIMP (Litopenaeus vannamei)

Abstract

Vaname shrimp is one type of shrimp that is widely cultivated in Indonesia. These shrimp are very popular and have high economic value, and even become favorite commodity from Indonesia. However, shrimp farming activities dealing with problems related to environmental factors, disease, slow growth, and mass death. This resulted in lowering the level of productivity of vaname shrimp. One alternative approach that can be done to overcome these problems is by adding prebiotics in feed. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of different prebiotics  addition on feed on the growth of vaname shrimp (Litopanaeus vannamei). This study uses a completely randomized design (CRD) method, with 4 treatments and 3 replications, the treatments include Control K (feed without prebiotics), P1 (pellet feeding with the addition of 2% sweet potato prebiotics), P2 (feed pellets with the addition of 2% prebiotic potatoes), P3 (feed pellet with the addition of 1% sweet potato prebiotics and 1% potatoes). The data obtained were analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) to with significant level of 5%. The result shows that there are no significant differences among the treatments for specific growth rates, absolute weights, feed conversion ratios, absolute growth.