In the present study, silver barb performed extremely
well as its growth even at 40 m−2 combined density (16.3± 1.4 g)
was much higher than the size it attained in monoculture at 25 m−2
density with provision of aeration as observed in the above earlier
study at CIFA. Though the combined density in this treatment was
40 m−2
, the individual density of the species was only 10 m−2 (25%
species composition) which might have put it in advantage to gain
higher weight during the rearing (CIFA, 2007)