EFFECT OF THE MAINTENANCE OF COLOR CONTAINERS GROWTH VANAME SHRIMP (Litopenaeus vannamei) DI FLOATING NET

For animals that are positive fototksis, shrimp is very sensitive to light. The lighting itself with regard to the pattern of colors in the light spectrum .. The success of the change of eating endogeneus to eat exogenous strongly influenced by the color of tub that make it easy to detect and eating larvae feed. Color and reflections from the walls and basic bath may also affect the contrast between the feed and the background, catching figures feed the results are different. The influence of color in this tub will be duplicated to the color waring / shrimp nets on maintenance vanamei in floating net cages. Container maintenance testing of 3 pieces with a size of 4 x 4 x 3 m, green color waring, waring a white and green and white waring. Fry stocked as many as 30,000 individuals per waring.

Survival or survival rate of shrimp fry vaname maintained at 90% white waring, waring a green, 65% and waring a mixture of white and green is 75%. The growth rate of shrimp seed weight were maintained at waring vaname white color is ranged from 1.115 to 2.500% with an average of 2,333% greater than the growth rate of weight waring a green color that ranges from 0.789 -2.500% with an average of 1.919%, and waring a mixture of green and white color that ranges from 1.100 to 2.500% with an average of 2.172%.