This trial was conducted to evaluate dietary yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as pro-nutrient for diets for Nile tilapia broodstock females and fingerlings. The trial was conducted in two phases at UNESP. Two groups of tilapia broodstock females (734.47 ± 202.08 g), GIFT genealogy, were fed with isoprotein (34% DP) and isoenergy (3400 kcal DE/kg) diets for 100 days, one with 2% autolized yeast and the other with no yeast. Broodstock females were naturally fecundated, and larvae, at the end of yolk sac absorption, were stocked into 3.5-L aquarium and fed 30 days with three isoprotein (35% DP) and isoenergy (3280 kcal DE/kg) diets: without yeast, containing 1% whole yeast or 1% autolized yeast. After, fingerlings were killed and final biomass; weight gain; ration consumption; apparent feed conversion; final weight; total length; corporal condition factor; mean height and survival were determined. Dry matter, ash, crude protein and ether extract from fish body were also determined. There was interaction of the data analyzed for all growth performance variables, except for feed intake. Supplying whole yeast (2.0%) in Nile tilapia broodstock female diets or in fingerling diets (1.0%) improves fingerling survival.
body composition; GIFT; grow performance; nutrition; Oreochromis niloticus; Saccharomices cerevisiae
