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Studies on the nutrition of salmonid fish. The magnesium requirement of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

D. Knox ,
C. B. Cowey  and
J. W. Adron
D. Knox
Affiliation:
Institute of Marine Biochemistry, St Fittick's Road, Aberaken AB1 3RA
C. B. Cowey
Affiliation:
Institute of Marine Biochemistry, St Fittick's Road, Aberaken AB1 3RA
J. W. Adron
Affiliation:
Institute of Marine Biochemistry, St Fittick's Road, Aberaken AB1 3RA
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1. Rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) of mean initial weight 35 g were given one of five experimental diets for 20 weeks. The diets contained (g/kg dry diet) 15 calcium, 10 phosphorus and graded levels of magnesium from 0.04 (diet no. 1) to 1.0 (diet no. 5). In a second experiment rainbow trout of mean initial weight 16 g were given one of six experimental diets for 20 weeks. The diets contained (g/kg dry diet): Ca (40), P (30) and levels of Mg from 0.06 (diet no. 6) to 2.0 (diet no. 11).

2. In both experiments weight gains were lowest in those trout given diets containing the basal levels of Mg (diet no. 1 and diet no. 6) but increased with increasing dietary Mg concentration. In neither experiment was there any further increase in weight gain once the Mg concentration reached 0.25–0.5 g/kg dry diet; weight gain reached a plateau at this dietary Mg level.

3. The following trends occurred in serum electrolyte concentrations as dietary Mg increased. Mg increased in both experiments, in Expt 2 it reached a maximum of 1 mmol/l when the diet containted 0.5 g Mg/kg and did not increase further; sodium was positively correlated in both experiments; potassium decreased and in Expt 2 reached a plateau minimum of 1.7 mmol/l at a dietary Mg concentration of 0.5 g/kg; Ca and P altered little in either experiment.

4. In both experiments renal Ca concentrations were greatly increased in trout given diets lacking supplementary Mg; they fell to low levels (3–5 mmol/kg) when diets conained 0.15 g Mg/kg or more. Renal K and P concentrations were negatively correlated with dietary Mg in Expt 2; other electrolytes measured were not altered in concentration by the treatments used.

5. Extracellular fluid volume (ECFV) of muscle was negatively correlated with dietary Mg. In Expt 2 it reached a minimal or normal value at 0.5 g Mg/kg diet and did not decease further. Muscle Mg concentration increased with diet Mg in both experiments and muscle K concentration was also correlated with diet Mg in Expt 2. These changes were related to the shift in muscle water. In Expt 1, P concentration was decreased with increasing diet Mg but in Expt 2 its concentration increased, these changes may have been connected with the three-fold difference in dietary P in the two experiments.

6. By contrast with skeletal muscle, Mg levels in cardiac muscle increased at low dietary Mg intakes.

7. Concentrations of electrolytes in liver did not alter with dietary treatments used.

8. The results show that Mg requirement of rainbow trout is met by a diet containing 0.5 g Mg/kg diet.

Type
Papers on General Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 137 - 148
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1981

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