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Effect of Different Diets on Juvenile Achatina fulica Growth

Achatina fulica is a pest of agricultural and ornamental plants in the tropics for over a century, there are still limited information about its biology. The aim of this research is to study the effect of different diet on juvenile A. fulica growth and to determine the best diet formulation for juve...

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Main Author: Ellcy, Usun Seling
Format: Final Year Project Report
Language:English
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Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2022
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spelling my.unimas.ir.398102023-07-25T07:28:15Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/39810/ Effect of Different Diets on Juvenile Achatina fulica Growth Ellcy, Usun Seling QL Zoology Achatina fulica is a pest of agricultural and ornamental plants in the tropics for over a century, there are still limited information about its biology. The aim of this research is to study the effect of different diet on juvenile A. fulica growth and to determine the best diet formulation for juvenile A. fulica growth performances. In this study, 16 number of juvenile A. fulica collected around the Kuching area were examined for 2 months. There were two distinct diet treatments : Diet 1 (cucumber only) and Diet 2 (mixture of layer poultry fed with cucumber) were provided and physical measurement was taken every seven days to examine the impact of the diets. Physical measurement included the following: body weight, body length, shell length, and shell diameter. There were 8 number of juvenile A. fulica that survive at the end of this study period. The findings indicated that base on the survival A. fulica, shows that A. fulica fed with extra with supplement show more obvious growth performance as compared to individuals fed only with vegetable. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2022 Final Year Project Report NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/39810/1/ELLCY%20USUN%20SELING%2024pgs.pdf text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/39810/4/Ellcy%20Usun%20Seling%20ft.pdf Ellcy, Usun Seling (2022) Effect of Different Diets on Juvenile Achatina fulica Growth. [Final Year Project Report] (Unpublished)
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Ellcy, Usun Seling
Effect of Different Diets on Juvenile Achatina fulica Growth
description Achatina fulica is a pest of agricultural and ornamental plants in the tropics for over a century, there are still limited information about its biology. The aim of this research is to study the effect of different diet on juvenile A. fulica growth and to determine the best diet formulation for juvenile A. fulica growth performances. In this study, 16 number of juvenile A. fulica collected around the Kuching area were examined for 2 months. There were two distinct diet treatments : Diet 1 (cucumber only) and Diet 2 (mixture of layer poultry fed with cucumber) were provided and physical measurement was taken every seven days to examine the impact of the diets. Physical measurement included the following: body weight, body length, shell length, and shell diameter. There were 8 number of juvenile A. fulica that survive at the end of this study period. The findings indicated that base on the survival A. fulica, shows that A. fulica fed with extra with supplement show more obvious growth performance as compared to individuals fed only with vegetable.
format Final Year Project Report
author Ellcy, Usun Seling
author_facet Ellcy, Usun Seling
author_sort Ellcy, Usun Seling
title Effect of Different Diets on Juvenile Achatina fulica Growth
title_short Effect of Different Diets on Juvenile Achatina fulica Growth
title_full Effect of Different Diets on Juvenile Achatina fulica Growth
title_fullStr Effect of Different Diets on Juvenile Achatina fulica Growth
title_full_unstemmed Effect of Different Diets on Juvenile Achatina fulica Growth
title_sort effect of different diets on juvenile achatina fulica growth
publisher Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
publishDate 2022
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