Utilization of Liquid Commercial Probiotics to Improve Survival and Growth of Siamese Catfish Fingerlings (Hypopthalmus pangasionodon (Sauvage, 1878))

The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of liquid commercial probiotics usage on improving the survival rate and growth of Siamese catfish fingerlings. This research was conducted on March to May 2018, at Building 4 Laboratory, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran. This study used an experimental method with Completely Randomized Design (CRD), which consisted of four treatments and three replications. The treatments are feed without the addition of probiotics, and feed with additional probiotics at doses of 2, 4, and 6 ml / kg of feed. The parameters observed were survival rate, absolute weight, absolute length, feed conversion ratio, proximate test analysis and water quality. Data on absolute weight, absolute length, feed conversion ratio and survival rate were analyzed using analysis of variance, while nutrition changes of fish feed and water quality were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that the best addition of probiotics for feed, is with probiotic doses of 2 ml / kg of feed, which resulted in a 100% survival rate, an absolute weight value of 1.03% and a feed conversion ratio of 1.13.