Table 16. Vitamin deficiency
symptoms |
Vitamins |
Deficiency symptom |
|
|
Riboflavin |
Erratic swimming, Cataracts (a) |
Pantothenic acid |
Lack of appetite, low feed
efficiency, haemorrhages, clubbed gills and total mortality in five weeks.
(b) |
Niacin |
|
Thiamine |
Poor growth, High mortality, Stress susceptible (a) |
Pyridoxin |
Erratic swimming, High mortality, Convulsions (c) |
Biotin |
|
Folic acid |
|
Vitamin B12 |
|
Choline |
|
Inositol |
Poor growth, Abnormal bone formation (a) |
Ascorbic acid |
Gill hemorrhages,
Exophthalmia, Scoliosis, Lordosis, Broken back syndrome, Fatty liver, Muscle
degeneration, Poor gill development, Bone deformations, Dark colouration,
Halted growth and loss of equilibrium (d) |
Vitamin A |
|
Vitamin D |
|
Vitamin K |
|
Vitamin E |
Muscular atrophy, Increased
disease susceptibility, Lateral muscular myopathy (e) |
Data source: Adapted fom
Glencross (2006) with additional information; (a) Boonyaratpalin and
Wanakowat (1993); (b) Mali et al. (1993); (c) Wanakowat et al. (1989); (d)
Boonyaratpalin et al. (1989; 1994), Phromkunthong et al. (1997); (e)
Boonyaratpalin and Wanakowat (1993); Bowater and Burren (2007). |
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