<![CDATA[Catfish is a fish that consumed by many people in Indonesia, a relatively high nutrient content and relativelyinexpensive price of catfish are the reasons why catfish become people's choice. Thus, the need of catfish growscontinuosly in every area, it is directly proportional to the increasing demand for catfish feed. To improve the qualityof livestock products, especially catfish fishing, artificial floating feed manufacturing is an option that is expected tohelp the government to solve the problem. In this research will be carried out experiments to obtain the ideal feedcomposition as a reference artificial floating feed making. Variable composition of fine bran in this study is 20%,22%, 24%, 26%, and 28%. While the observation of weight gain of catfish by the method of FCR (Feed ConversionRatio) is done by a basket of catfish weighed in at once and then taken catfish weight average rating, catfishweighing performed at the age of multiples of 7 days to harvest. As for the observation that the amount of feedconsumed was also done weekly until it is possible catfish ready for harvest. Data obtained results is that thecomposition in the manufacture of ideal artificial feed is 24% fine bran, 40% fish meal (chicken feather meal) and36% starch. Of this composition, artificial floating feed is able to float for 15 minutes. Economic analysis of the dataobtained that the use of a combination of artificial feed and feed from the company with NAIC is more profitablethan the use of feed from the company entirely without the NAIC is gained 21.7%. But for the future, farmers areadvised to use catfish artificial feed entirely due to the benefits which can be increased to 35.8%.]]>
