TY - JOUR AU - Kabir, Md Alamgir AU - Rahman, Mohammad Shamsur AU - Hossain, Anwar AU - Mandal, Shankar Chandra PY - 2015/05/14 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Proximate composition and microbial quality of three imported aquarium fish feeds in Bangladesh JF - Bangladesh Journal of Zoology JA - Bangladesh J. Zool. VL - 42 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.3329/bjz.v42i2.23371 UR - https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJZ/article/view/23371 SP - 283-294 AB - <p>Proximate composition and microbial quality of three aquarium fish feeds commonly found in Bangladesh were collected from fish feed market of Dhaka city. Significantly higher moisture content (2.12 ± 0.06%) was found in Super Nova<sup>TM</sup> fish feed while similar moisture content was detected in other two feeds (p&lt;0.05). On the other hand ash content detected in Optimum<sup>TM</sup> and Osaka 2000<sup>TM</sup> aquarium fish feed was significantly higher than that of Super Nova<sup>TM</sup> (10.67±0.19%) (p&lt;0.05).Protein content found in Optimum<sup>TM</sup> (42.21 ± 0.12%) was significantly higher than that of Osaka 2000<sup>TM</sup> and Super Nova<sup>TM</sup> (p&lt;0.05). However, similar lipid content was found in Optimum<sup>TM</sup> (1.06 ± 0.03%) and Super Nova<sup>TM</sup> (1.13 ± 0.01%) aquarium fish feed which were significantly higher than that of Osaka 2000<sup>TM</sup> (p&lt;0.05). The <em>Escherichia coli </em>and <em>Staphylococcus aureus </em>were found in all feeds. However <em>Vibrio sp </em>was not found in any feed. Total bacterial count was significantly higher in Osaka 2000<sup>TM</sup> feed than that of others (P&lt;0.05). However <em>S. aureus </em>was significantly higher in Super Nova<sup>TM</sup> than that of others while <em>E. coli </em>count was significantly higher in OptimumTM fish feed than that of others (p&lt;0.05). Nutritional quality of the aquarium fish feed was qualified to some extent to meet the minimum requirement of the aquarium fish while microbial quality indicates some degrees of deterioration which may cause diseases of the aquarium fishes. Thus proper storage condition, hygienic handling and processing should be maintained to prevent the microbial contamination in aquarium fish feeds. There should be a monitoring cell from the government to assess the quality of this expensive imported feeds for aquarist.</p><p>Bangladesh J. Zool. <strong>42</strong>(2): 283-294, 2014</p> ER -