ASPECTOS NUTRICIONALES DE PECES ORNAMENTALES DE AGUA DULCE

Abstract

The commercialization of ornamental fish has become an economic activity of great importance for aquaculture worldwide. This document seeks to collect and highlight the importance of nutritional aspects such as the type of food, the essential nutrients and the different components that promote growth. There is little knowledge about the requirement of nutrients in ornamental fish, situation that has led to extrapolate the available information of farmed fish, leaving aside the specific requirements of the different species, negatively affecting the performance of growth, phenotype and physiology. The protein requirements that are reported for some of the species between 25 and 53% PC. The pigments, although they are not nutrients, are considered of great importance in the formulation of diets for ornamental fish, because in some species they highlight and intensify the colors, generating an increase in their sale value.

Keywords

• ropicals fish
• nutritional requirements
• food
• minerals
• protein
• energy