Catfish has various advantages, including fast growth, high adaptability to the environment, delicious taste, and high nutritional content.  As a source of nutrition for reared fish, feed is a factor that plays a very important and decisive role in the success of fish farming.  The research aims to determine the effect of feeding frequency on the growth and survival of sangkuriang catfish larvae (C. gariepinus). The study was conducted from June to July 2020 at the Abelisawa Fish Seed Center (BBI), Sampara District, Konawe Regency, South East Sulawesi Province using a Completely Randomized Design with three frequencies of feeding treatment, namely treatment A feeding twice a day, treatment B feeding 3 times a day and treatment C feeding 4 times a day with 3 replications.  Data were analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) at 95% confidence level (a 0,05).  The results obtained the highest daily growth in treatment B of 3.11 ± 0.04% per day, followed by treatment A of 2.58 ± 0.05% per day and the lowest in treatment C of 2.53 ± 0.03% per day.  The highest absolute growth was obtained in the frequency of feeding 3 times a day at 37.27 ± 0.20 g per individual, followed by 2 times a day at 27.64 ± 0.40 g per individual and the lowest at feeding 4 times a day at 26.51 ± 0.92 g per individual. Survival in all 3 treatments reached 100%.  Analysis of variance (α 0.05) shows that different feeding frequencies significantly affect the daily growth rate (0.05>0.00) and absolute growth (0.05>0.00) sangkuriang catfish larvae (C. gariepinus).

Congo Tetra fish is one of the freshwater ornamental fish species which is in great demand because of its high economic value. Male congo tetra fish have a higher selling value than female fish, because the morphology of their bodies looks more attractive, especially their brighter colors and long fins. Sex reversal technology is one technique that can be used to obtain male monosexual offspring.The hormone 17α-methyltestosterone in male fish can increase spermatogenesis and determine secondary sex markers in male fish through the formation of sexual characteristics in fish morphology and body color. The administration of the hormone 17α-methyltestosterone with the right dose can increase the percentage of male sex of Congo Tetra fish. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the hormone 17α-methyltestosterone with different doses on the percentage of male sex, absolute weight growth, and survival of congo tetra fish, to determine which 17α-methyltestosterone hormone dose had the best effect on the percentage of male sex, growth in absolute weight, and survival in congo tetra fish. This research was conducted at the Regional Technical Service Unit of the Fish Seed Center for Ternate City. The time for conducting the research starts from March to May, 2020. In this study, 4 treatment doses of hormones were used, each treatment was repeated 3 times. The treatments tried were as follows: Treatment A: Dose 2 mg/l, Treatment B: Dose 3 mg/l, Treatment C: Dose 4 mg/l, Treatment D: Dose 0 mg/l (control).The results showed that the hormone 17α-methyl testosterone with different doses had a very significant effect on the male sex percentage of congo tetra fish, but it was not significantly different on the growth in absolute weight and survival of congo tetra fish. The highest average percentage of male sex in congo tetra fish was found in treatment C (dose 4 mg/l) which was 86.6%, the highest average value of growth in absolute weight was found in treatment A (hormone dose 2 mg/l) of 1.083 g, and the highest survival was found in treatment D (control) of 90.473%.

Feed is an important component in aquaculture because the availability of feed will affect the growth and survival of fish. This study aims to utilize protein-rich chicken intestine as an alternative feed to obtain optimal growth for catfish. Fish maintenance was carried out for 60 days by feeding 10% of body weight and given once a day. The results showed that feeding catfish by utilizing chicken intestine waste can provide optimal growth. The absolute weight gain was 103.84 g, the absolute length was 28.13 cm, the specific growth rate (SGR) was 4.65% per day, and the survival rate was 85%.