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This study was carried out to determine the Hematology performance of Clarias gariepinus fed diets supplemented with oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) at different inclusion levels. 300 post juveniles were stocked randomly into five tanks at a density of 60 fish per tank; (T1 0%, T2 1.0%, T3 1.5%, T4 2.0%, T5 2.5%) and were fed twice daily to satiation with the prepared diet. Each treatment was replicated 3 times. The experiment lasted for a period of 9 weeks after which blood samples were randomly collected three per treatment for haematological studies and data was subjected to analysis of variance. The result of this study showed that WBC had the highest value of 25.17×10^3uL at T4 and the lowest value at T5 (16.37×10^3uL), RBC performed better at T3 (2.23×10^6uL) and lowest at T5 (1.70×10^6uL) and HCT values were found to be in the normal range for catfish, T3 (1.5%) being the highest and T5 recorded the lowest 2.5% inclusion level of mushroom
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